Tim Gard – Using Humor as a Professional Skill
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Episode Overview:
As business professionals, the pressures, stress, and expectations we face can take a toll on our resilience and drain our sense of resourcefulness, leaving us stressed with motivational fatigue. We can combat this fatigue when we use humor to be more resilient, enhance productivity and team enthusiasm. To help us understand how to develop and employ humor in our businesses and profession is author, speaker, and humorist coach, Tim Gard.
Guest Bio:
Tim Gard is a motivational, funny keynote speaker, corporate entertainer, and emcee. Tim is known for bringing tears of laughter to audiences worldwide. More than an insightful and funny guy, Tim teaches people to be more resilient and resourceful using their own comedic style. He also coaches businesses on how to enhance productivity through employee enthusiasm by using appropriate workplace humor.
An internationally recognized authority on stress reduction and conflict resolution, Tim’s easy- to-implement techniques demonstrate ways to diffuse, deal with, and ultimately avoid stressful encounters. Tim does not make light of serious issues; rather, he shines a light on previously unseen possibilities to overcome challenging situations.
Resource Links:
- Website: https://timgard.com/
- Product Link: https://timgard.com/shop
Insight Gold Timestamps:
08:39 It’s only stupid if you do it twice
10:42 You change your perception, you create a different reality
12:52 It’s important that we learn to laugh at ourselves
16:54 When in doubt, leave it out
21:38 If we exaggerate too much, it invalidates everything
23:31 Sniglets
32:49 We really need to recharge
36:20 We all smile and laugh in the same language
Connect Socially:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timgard/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/funwithtim
Twitter: https://twitter.com/funwithtim
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TimGard
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/funwithtim/
Email: tim@timgard.com
Sponsors:
Rainmaker Digital Solutions: https://www.rainmakerdigitalsolutions.com/
Resources: https://becomingpreferred-podcast.com/resources/
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About the Host, Michael
Michael Vickers inspires enduring success, redefining the possible for today’s sales professionals, leaders, and managers. Whatever the sales or business opportunity, Michael will greatly enhance your odds of success. Every person who has an idea to promote, an employee to motivate, or a deal to negotiate, will attain a new level of success after an event with Michael.
Michael is also the best-selling author of Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell Your Competition, and Dance of the Rainmaker: Creating Authentic Differentiation in Today's Competitive Marketplace, where he shares his secrets to achieving the very highest level of sales mastery.
Whatever the result you’re striving for, if it involves influencing others or achieving success through others, Michael will build your confidence and accelerate your performance.
Michael is the Executive Director of Summit Learning Systems, a company that offers customized in-house training programs to many of today’s leading companies. He teaches thousands of business professionals throughout North America the skills required to achieve optimum performance.