Humor at Work: The Guaranteed, Bottom-Line, Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Guide to Success through Humor

Atlanta Magazine
"If there is an art to developing a sense of humor, then these two women are true artists."

Book Description
Humor can be an extremely useful tool for success; when used properly it can reduce dtress, improve communication, and create a more comfortable work environment. Now best-selling humorists Esther Blumenfeld and Lynne Alpern offer guidance for identifying and developing your own sense-and style-of humor. Focusing on both traditional and nontraditional workplaces-whether you're a seasoned executive or an entry-level assistant-HUMOR AT WORK reveals the inside track on using humor to improve you speeches and negotiations, to develop management abilities and leadership roles, and to guide you through the pitfalls of day-to-day life. Key chapters deal specifically with such professions as teaching, sales and customer relations, secretarial and support positions, and the health care field, with a special chapter devoted to women in the workplace. An extensive resource chapter offers further information on conferences and organizations, publications and courses, and recommended reading.

About the Author
Esther Blumenfeld and Lynne Alpern are former contributing editors to Business Atlanta magazine. They conduct workshops on humor at conventions and for businesses and have been featured on numerous radio and television programs in the U.S. and Canada. Their humor awareness course has been offered at Emory University in Atlanta for seven years. They also teach course in humor writing and have been guest faculty members ate several summer writers' conferences. In 1986 Blumenfeld and Alpern were named Georgia Authors of the Year in Humor by the Council of Authors and Journalists.


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With the overabundance of how-to and self-help books available for increasing our success levels and decreasing our stress, finally here's a guide that's realistic and fun. Esther Blumenfeld and Lyne Alpern deliver what quite possibly could be the cure-all for the blues, in or out of the office. This book provides a simple solution—laughter. Whatever your profession, incorporating humor into your daily routine will improve communication, reduce stress and create a great environment. The book also offers anecdotes for dealing with difficult situations and colleagues, for being persuasive in sales and management, and for equalizing male-female power, all using the power of humor. Humor at Work reminds us that laughter can be a powerful antidote to the 9 to 5 grind.


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