| Humor at Work |
ISSUE 741 - Sept. 5, 2018 |
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Three Ways to Make a Better Impression |
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Here are three simple things you can do to improve how other people perceive you when you interact with them, and improve how effectively you communicate in one-on-one situations:
1. When talking with someone, make a point of turning your computer screen away, turning your phone volume down, or placing your pet (Personal Electronic Thingy) out of your reach. Do something, anything, to visibly demonstrate they have your complete and undivided attention. This can even apply over the phone: I called a sales rep last week and the first thing he said was, "Mike, great to hear from you. Give me two seconds so I can close my office door so you'll have
100% of me."
2. Listen with your eyes. That may sound a tad odd (and no, this doesn't work well over the phone), but consider how we really demonstrate we are listening to someone. We hear with our ears, but we show we're really listening and connecting with someone with our eyes.
3. When you hear something you think is important to the other person, tell them what you think you heard them say. When you tell someone something you think is important, don't just tell them, ask the person what they heard, so you both leave with the same understanding of what was said.
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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A fast and fun meeting icebreaker: Have everyone tell their life story in exactly 10 words. It always generates some laughs while people creatively try to capture their entire life history in only a few seconds.
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Quote of the Week |
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"Laughter makes longevity a lot more fun!" Lola Gilleard
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It's a Wacky World |
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| Fear not my fellow humanoid jokers - the robots won't be replacing us anytime soon, at least not in the ha ha department. The best jokes that joke-telling artificial intelligence programs such as WISCRAIC (Witty Idiomatic Sentence Creation Revealing Ambiguity in Context) have
created so far are:
"The performing lumberjack took a bough."
"What do you call a depressed train? A low-comotive."
Yeah, somehow I don't think the robots will be quitting their day job any time soon.
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