S5 EP22: Laughter is the Best Medicine for Your Organization

“By injecting humor and levity into our work lives, we give ourselves an opportunity for human connection.” Peter Margaritis According to some recent research, adding more laughter to the workplace helps improve the organization’s culture. Humor helps people to cope with stress and to build relationships, and is associated with intelligence and creativity. Workplace humor is about a positive, light hearted, open attitude and a playful mindset. One of the best ways to create a competitive advantage is to create a culture that embraces laughter. By injecting humor and levity into our work lives, we give ourselves an opportunity for human connection —something so easily lost in today's pandemic weary and technology driven world. Humor is not seen as a top leadership characteristic, but rather a secondary leadership behavior. However, there is more research evidence that humor should be one of the top leadership behaviors. Incorporating humor into your company culture isn't that easy, but well worth it. It is essential to understand your own company culture when it comes to humor in the workplace and bring it in a way that fits and enhances the culture and the people. There is a delicate balance in creating a culture that embraces humor, and developing leadership that learns how to use humor to strengthen the organization, and it's well worth the effort. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: petermargaritis.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices