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Remotely Humorous

Build Joyful and Resilient Virtual Teams with Humor

Connor Diemand-Yauman and Naomi Bagdonas

Brace yourself — you are about to embark on an online learning experience unlike any other.

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Brace yourself — you are about to embark on an online learning experience unlike any other.

Imagine your favorite comedy show and the world’s best online educational content had a baby. Then imagine that baby transformed your team to be more joyful, humorous, creative, resilient, and effective, all while working remotely.

Naomi Bagdonas and Connor Diemand-Yauman are leading experts in organizational leadership and culture. They've coached celebrities and fortune 500 executives, taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, and founded and led multiple organizations. They’ve teamed up with comedic minds from The Onion, Funny Or Die, and Comedy Central to create a fun, interactive learning experience to empower you to show up more authentically, effectively, and joyfully at work and life.

You might be wondering: “Should I really be prioritizing a course about humor? Also, was it just me, or did that baby metaphor kind of fall apart at the end?”

To answer your first question: humor is what makes all the other stuff your team has to do tolerable. In this brave new world of work, when we rarely see our team members in person — or from the pajama bottoms down — it's harder than ever to foster connection, joy, and well-being in our remote teams. All the while, behavioral science suggests that creating a company culture of humor and levity is the quickest path to nurturing these things.

To answer your second question: Yes. Just roll with it.

This program is designed for individuals who want to be more energized, joyful, and effective at work and for remote teams that want to feel more connected, creative, and resilient through the most challenging times. It’s also for anyone who wants fewer one-hour meetings that feel like three-hour meetings with only ten minutes of useful work.

You shouldn’t have to choose between catching up on your favorite comedy show and learning techniques for being happier and better at your job. Now you can kill two birds (the Boredom Hawk and the Inefficiency Vulture, to be specific) with one online learning experience.

We’re excited to be on this journey with you.

What you'll learn

  • The neuroscience of laughter, and how it proves humor is a superpower for building more connected, creative, and resilient virtual teams.
  • How to unlock your unique sense of humor on the job and cultivate more levity and joy with colleagues and team members in your virtual workplace.
  • Comedy techniques from the pros for becoming more confident and skilled in using humor at work and in life.
  • The strengths and growth areas of your organization’s culture, along with virtual team building exercises to foster a more effective and joyful workplace.
  • The definitive punchline to “Why did the chicken cross the road?”

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Three courses

Making Remote Humor Stick

(3 hours)
Hear that? It's the sound of rubber meeting road. This course is about putting your foot on the gas and diving headfirst into strategies for activating and institutionalizing a culture of levity.

Priming Your Remote Team for Humor

(3 hours)
In this course, you'll explore the five enablers of humor in remote teams: safety, connectedness, agency, growth, and purpose. You'll learn how they create the conditions for joy to flourish and how to amplify them. Next, you'll take a diagnostic to understand which enablers your team members most naturally channel and where you have the greatest opportunity to grow. Finally, you'll take on team building activities to strengthen these enablers within your organization.

Conquering Humor Fundamentals

(3 hours)
In this course, you'll build the foundations of humor at work. You'll explore the neuroscience of laughter and why it's a superpower that increases bonds, creativity, and resilience on virtual teams. You'll come to understand your unique humor style, including what makes you laugh, how you make others laugh, and how to activate your sense of humor with colleagues.

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