Although almost everyone will agree that humor can have a positive impact at work. As a strategic skill, it can act as a positive factor in communication, morale, and stress reduction.

However, if misused, it can have an equally negative effect.

You will ll explore how to steer clear of the negative or controversial humor that may become a source of problems and complaints by concentrating on humor that enhances (and never diminishes) work place culture to improve morale and customer service. 

In this laughter-filled Leadership Program, you’ll discover how humor can help you powerfully deal with the challenges of an ever-changing workplace.

By applying a few simple precautions, you will see how making the farce be with you improves the environment for everyone.

Todays leaders are forced to do more with less; supervisors and managers are constantly tasked to inspire their troops to do more work with a fraction of the staffing and resources needed.

This program focuses on developing your own humor plan while defining what is permissible, and what is not, in your workplace. As a participant, you will take away:

• knowledge of how to be a positive humor leader
• key differences between leadership and authority
• reasons why funny does not always equal appropriate.
• ways to encourage good humor and discourage bad humor
• benefits and potential pitfalls of using laughter and humor in business
• ways to steer clear of the negative humor that can cause problems and complaints.

Ideal for both government and private business, this program’s easy and practical guidelines prevent negative humor in the workplace while allowing positive humor to strengthen communication and boost morale.

Covid has changed the world and left devastated employees in its wake. In many cases we replaced boring in person meetings with never ending zoom calls. Today, most need help in letting go of past anger and stress while they work to become more resilient when faced with future challenges. Many people worldwide are unhappy, stressed out and depressed. t’s a fact. People want to be happy. Happy employees work better, have fewer sick days, and more easily connect with customers, vendors and coworkers. Depression has an equally opposite effect. However, the opposite of depression isn’t happiness, the opposite of depression is resilience. If we have learned anything from covid it’s the importance of having resilient, happy people on our team when we face challenges. Tim’s rejuvenating and immediately applicable message teaches audiences how to increase morale while enhancing productivity and everyday enthusiasm in three short, and easy to adopt, steps. One of the components of this program involves them learning to not let the little irritating things get to them by using Tim’s “Bummer” and Who Hoo” method. They learn to actively let the little “bummers” go and also learn to celebrate even the smallest win with his “whoo hoo” method. Tim’s unique yet practical ideas help people diffuse routine or extreme stress by insulating themselves against negativity. He shows audiences how to “refresh and renew” themselves simply by using and sharing his techniques. His terrifically funny, unique stories (and of course, extraordinary visual props) make this keynote address one you won’t want to miss.

Tim custom tailors this program for your event, and he doesn’t make light of your serious situations, but rather, shines a light on them to reveal previously unseen possibilities.

Life is a game; business is a game; literally everything is a game that contains winners, losers and spectators.

Winners excel by intention and determination and losers suffer from making the choice to simply coast or dwell in a defeatist attitude.

Just one person can Change the Game for all players by simply applying easy to understand and hard to forget concepts that champions have been utilizing for years in sports, business and life in general.

A basic shift in perspective and approach can immediately change the playing experience for everyone in a multitude of real, tangible and valuable ways.

Using the game of marbles as a demonstrative example metaphor, Tim proves that tasks or challenges that have become unnecessarily overly-complicated can become surprisingly uncomplicated, FAST!

The pressure to accomplish more with less, meet tight deliverable deadline expectations and respond with professional promptness can create stress, team dysfunction and decreased morale.

The philosophy of “everything seems so serious, heavy and intense” is an unproductive one, and a truly unhealthy way to work and live. When stress and dysfunction need reduction, it’s time to “Change the Game”!

Tim personally consults with event coordinators prior to, and after, each event to ensure every participant receives a bag of marbles to take home as a reminder keepsake, to aid in the implementation of Change the Game tools, tactics, strategies, and ingrain the newly developed philosophy for overcoming what was previously perceived as impossible or unrealistic.

Sticky Safety: New in 2018 this inspiring safety program has been shared at The White Sands Missile Safety Stand Down, Great Plains Safety and Health and many others.+ audience activity

Tim had a very diverse work history as an enlisted sailor aboard the USS Midway during the evacuation of Vietnam Nam, he worked at a lumber yard, dug ditches, built and then sold camper/trailers, was a “juggie” and Vib Op on a seismograph crew and built a unique safety philosophy along the way that you can replicate to help your employees stay safe every day. + inspirational / life-changing

Tim has worked in some very dangerous jobs, experienced workplace injuries and his insights are based on real life situations anyone can identify with and learn from. His message and proven methods are both profound and hilarious.+ humorous / funny

Funny is sticky. People remember things that make them laugh. Most people would probably point out safety is serious and there is nothing funny about safety. In a way they would be correct. There isn’t anything funny about an injury accident but the principals you’ll learn in this inspiring keynote will demonstrate how humor helps people stay focused, present and “in the now¨ 
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While researching safety and applying his experience in safety training he discovered that the most successful safety training combined information with emotional context. You can provide statistics or pictures and video of safety violations but without emotional context the information often doesn’t stick with the participant.
In his ongoing research into safety and his own experiences he discovered that there are several factors that come into play regarding safety training and there are fun ways to make it more “sticky”.

Sticky Safety factors:

1. The power of storytelling to apply context to statistics.2. How resilience training can impact on safety violations. It’s a fact stressed out tired people are a high risk for safety violations. Resilience training can help reduce stress and insulate people from safety violations.

3. Flip of a coin: Safety violations can occur when people are in a hurry. Tim’s “flip of a coin” technique helps participants learn to pause and think of the consequences before acting.

4. Why “I can do this in my sleep” is a very dangerous mindset. Participants will discover how to “be in the “now” and practice consistent awareness.

5. How to identify Safety Traps and apply Safety Solutions

6. Participants will identify their own reasons why safety matters to them. This “head and heart” section helps people understand how a moment of carelessness can impact their lifetime.  + Human Resources

7. Discover how stress can be a positive or a negative in safety. There is no perfect job. Every job has stressful aspects about it and we can’t change the things that happen to us or around us, but we can change our perception of the stress and improve our ability to stay safe. It’s up to you to understand that one of the best ways to be safe at any job is by being the best you can be at that job and treat your ability to do that job as a learning journey and not a final destination. We have the right to be really good at our job and we should have the right to insulate ourselves against toxic people.

As a fun bonus all Tim’s training and keynotes are funny and rich with great stories to help people enjoy the event and provide context to his message. Tim’s humor helps participants stay focused and maintains engagement during the event.