Putting Humour to Work

by Michael Kerr

Get inspired! Get motivated! Get laughing!

You Can’t Be Serious! provides a compelling argument for taking humour, laughter and play more seriously in our workplaces. This 222-page book offers more than 200 ideas on how you can add humour to your workplace and includes dozens of examples of business that put humour to work.

You’ll learn why laughter truly is the best medicine when it comes to creating less stressful, healthier, more creative and more productive workplaces. You’ll discover simple ways to motivate yourself and your colleagues, learn why “HA +HA = AHA!”, and discover how to practice “safe” humour at work without getting fired! You’ll also learn why laughter is so healthy for us, how a sense of humour can help make the office commute more bearable, how humour can help workplaces manage change, why a sense of humour can create truly inspiring customer service experiences, how to lead with laughter, and why a team that laughs together, stays together.

The book features fun examples, hilarious quotes and jokes, inspiring words of wisdom, wacky cartoons and yes, even a few Dilbert cartoons thrown into the mix—so it’s not only a valuable workplace resource, it’s also darn fun to read!

Click Here to read the introduction to You Can’t Be Serious! Putting Humour to Work

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Putting Humour in its Place
Chapter 2: Why Humour is Such a Powerful Stress Buster
Chapter 3: Putting Humour to Work Against Stress
Chapter 4: The Office Commute – May the Farce Be With You!
Chapter 5: Laughing in the Face of Change
Chapter 6: Humour as a Catalyst for Creativity
Chapter 7: Motivating The Troops Through Laughter
Chapter 8: Laughing Your Way to Better Customer Service
Chapter 9: We’ve Got to Stop Meeting Like This!
Chapter 10: Speaking of Humour (Adding Humour to Presentations)
Chapter 11: Humour Blocks – What Stops Our Sense of Humour?
Chapter 12: Practicing Safe Humour (Having Fun Without Getting Fired!)
Chapter 13: Guiding Lights for Adding Humour to the Workplace
Chapter 14: 201 Ways to Put Humour to Work

Appendix: Tapping Into Some Humour Resources

You Can’t Be Serious! Putting Humour to Work makes a prefect addition to your office library, a fun gift for clients, or a great way to say “thanks” to the troops for a job well done. Send an e-mail to info@mikekerr.com for details on discount pricing for bulk orders!

$19.95 plus shipping and handling and applicable taxes

OR download the You Can’t Be Serious! e-book right now:
$19.95 to download an electronic pdf. version of You Can’t Be Serious! Putting Humour to Work

Boost morale,  increase sales, improve customer service, manage stress, enhance teamwork,  improve communication,  spark creativity, and create a truly inspiring workplace with the help of this checklist of 340 great ways to put humor and fun to work in any workplace.

A great incentive or thank-you gift for employees OR clients,  and a great way to ignite inspiring ideas, generate lively conversations, and spark even more ideas.  Perfect for team leaders,  health and wellness committees, culture committees or ANYONE who wants to work in a more energetic, successful, less stressful and more fun workplace!

The ideas are listed in 11 different categories including areas such as employee motivation,  adding fun to meetings, managing stress with humor,  and using humor with your customer service.   The e-book also includes 47 tips on how you can grow your sense of humor, and find “more funny” in your life on a daily basis.

Use the e-book to generate even more ideas, to help you launch a fun at work team, to launch brainstorms at meetings,  to reward people or teams, and to send the message to the rest of your team mates that you encourage and value balance and sanity and humanity and safe fun in the workplace, and that you really do put people first where you work.

Considering that the number one kind of workplace employees say they are MOST reluctant to leave is a fun working environment,  $14.95 is frankly, a stupidly low investment.  I mean  really, if you get just one or two solid ideas from it, think of the money you might save, and the great benefits you’ll get by putting some of the ideas into practice!

Available immediately for download for the ridiculously low price of $14.95 plus applicable taxes.

Creating the Kind of Workplace Where Everyone Wants to Work by Michael Kerr

Looking for a little inspiration in your workplace?

Inspiring Workplaces is packed full of ideas on how to create a healthier, more productive, more creative, more fun and truly inspiring workplace environment. Because your work is too important to be turned into a Dilbert cartoon.

Inspiring Workplaces offers more than just inspiration – the book offers practical ideas on how to bring about real change in any workplace. Each chapter ends with an “Inspiring Action” checklist of ideas on how to implement each chapter’s recommendations. And of course, Michael Kerr’s unique style and sense of humour is reflected throughout the book.

Click here to read the introduction to Inspiring Workplaces

Buy the Book $19.95

OR buy the e-book for immediate download!

Buy the e-Book $19.95

Table of Contents

1 Imagine a More Inspiring Workplace
2 Inspiring Vision
3 Inspiring Values
4 Inspiring Goals
5 Inspiring Communication
6 Inspiring Motivation
7 Inspiring Change
8 Inspiring Teamwork
9 Inspiring Customer Service
10 Inspiring Creativity
11 Inspiring Work-Life Balance
12 Inspiring Fun
13 Parting Thoughts
14 Inspiring Workplaces Resources
15 Inspiring Workplaces Reading List

Price: $19.95

If you’d like to inspire as many people as you can, then ask about our bulk discount rates!

• 60-minute DVD “Putting Humor to Work”
• “Putting Humor to Work” book
• “Inspiring Workplaces – Creating the Kind of Workplace Where EVERYONE Wants to Work” book
• “340 Ways to Put Humor to Work”  e-book

Discover why a sense of humour really is the best medicine for managing stress, boosting morale, and creating more productive and inspiring workplace environments. In this high energy and humour-filled presentation by award-winning international speaker and author Michael Kerr, you’ll learn how a sense of humour can help employees manage their stress, offer more memorable customer service and maintain a more positive workplace attitude. The video includes dozens of practical ideas and highlights examples from organizations that put humour to work each and every day.

$97.00

Running time: 58 minutes

(Also available in the American version – Putting Humor to Work, without the “u”!)

Imagine all the ways you can use Putting Humour to Work . . .

• Employee retreats and celebratory events
• Launch a discussion about the importance of humour in the workplace; workplace attitudes, values and stress management
• Launch a brainstorm about how to manage stress in your workplace
• Show clips during staff meetings
• Have a Friday breakfast or lunch DVD screening
• Employee orientation training
• Include it in your humour room, humour first aid kit or resource library

$97.00 plus GST & shipping and handling for the full humor at work library!

Purchase the Putting Humour to Work training DVD and we’ll throw in the following THREE resources (valued at $60.00) FREE so you can start your own humour at work resource library:

You Can’t Be Serious! Putting Humor to Work book
Inspiring Workplaces- Creating the Kind of Workplace Where EVERYONE Wants to Work
“340 Ways to Put Humor to Work” e-book

365 inspiring and provocative questions that will help you break the ice at your next meeting,  build your team, generate lively discussion, and brainstorm creative ideas to help you build your business, improve your workplace culture, improve employee motivation and morale,  enhance communication, engage employees and spark more creativity at work.

The introduction also delves into the art of asking questions, including why, when, who and how to ask questions in the workplace.  The questions are divided into 9 subject areas, including the significance of work,  workplace culture,  workplace values,  workplace communication, customer service,  employee motivation and fun in the workplace,  creativity in the workplace,  coaching questions and questions designed to help each other to get to know each other better.   60 pages long,  365 questions, with a list of ideas on how you can make effective use of the book to help you build a stronger, more inspiring workplace.

Available immediately for download for only $19.95 plus applicable taxes.

Do you find yourself saying, “We’ve got to STOP meeting like this” after every meeting?

In this 20-minute DVD,  Michael Kerr offers eight rules for effective meetings.  With his unique sense of humor, Michael offers practical tips  on how to get the most out of your meetings, how to manage your time better in meetings, and how to add a little fun to your meetings.   The meetings DVD includes two bonus humor clips: We’ve Got to STOP Meeting Like This!   You can see the intro to the meetings DVD on the home page at www.mikekerr.com .

Introductory sale price $39.95 plus GST and shipping and handling.

To order  phone our office at 866-609-2640 or order through our secure, totally safe on-line store by clicking on the button to the right.

Laugh and learn on your commute into work, or during  your lunch break, a coffee break,  or during a particularly boring meeting . . .or start your own humor at work library of resources.

Each audio CD sells for $19.95 plus appropriate taxes and shipping and handling.

OR . . .buy all three for only $49.95 plus taxes, shipping and handling!***

Buy all 3 CD’s

***Mike here. Look, the shipping would cost the same whether it’s one CD or three,  and I’m sure your boss will pay for this because he/she cares about your well-being and about the success of the entire organization and even if the boss doesn’t pay, isn’t your sanity, success and happiness worth $49.95?  How can you put a price on that?  (Well, I guess we sort of did . . .but you know what I mean.)

Putting Humor to Work   (33 Minutes)

Why is humor in the workplace so important?  Laugh as you learn how to tap into your sense of humor at work and discover the power of putting humor to work in any workplace.

$19.95 plus appropriate taxes and shipping and handling.

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Survival of the Funniest  (48 minutes)

Laughter really is the best medicine when it comes to managing stress at work.   Discover why laughter is such a physically, mentally and emotionally powerful tool for managing stress and staying healthy.  And learn three simple R’s of using safe humor at work to manage stress effectively in any work situation.

$19.95 plus appropriate taxes and shipping and handling.

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Inspiring Workplaces (51 minutes)

Create the kind of motivating, positive, fun workplace where EVERYONE wants to work. Discover five common traits that all truly successful, inspiring workplaces share -  the five keys for creating for creating a healthier, more positive and more fun workplace environment.

$19.95 plus appropriate taxes and shipping and handling.

Buy Inspiring Workplaces

OR. . . it’s never too late . . .buy all 3 CD’s for only $49.95 plus taxes, shipping and handling!

PLUS a BONUS two-minute feature: “The Stressed Guy!”

A fun reminder of what happens when you DON’T bring a positive attitude to work!

Imagine how you could use the Turn Monday Into Fun Day DVD . . .

• A fun, high energy meeting, conference or presentation opener!
• A fun, high-energy way to close a meeting or presentation!
• A fun break in the middle of a long meeting or presentation
• Introduce the idea of the importance of fun and positive workplace values
• Introduce a discussion about workplace stress
• A fun incentive gift for employees
• A fun way to celebrate your workplace’s health and wellness day
• A unique Boss Day, Nurse Day, Teacher’s Day, Admin Professionals Day or Whatever the Heck is Being Celebrated day!
• Attract people to your trade show booth or open house events
• Put it on your computer desktops for a daily inspirational reminder
• Employee welcome orientation sessions
• Stock a copy in your humour library, resource library or humour room
• A regular, weekly Monday morning picker-upper

$9.95

When Do You Let the Animals Out? is in its 6th printing (or is it the 7th or 8th –we’re losing track now!). This wildly popular, bestselling book is a must-have for anyone who wants to call themselves a Canadian, or for anyone who wants to say they visited Canada, or for anyone who still has a pulse.

“A laugh-a-minute read!” Fast Forward Magazine, Calgary

“The funniest book I’ve read in a long, long time!” 66 CFR Radio, Calgary

“The ideal gift . . . easy to read, full of sharp-witted and good natured comments.” The Wildlife Newspaper, Banff

“A hilarious collection of anecdotes from a park ranger of some of the truly absurd questions tourists ask. Some of them are so inane and crazy that you’ll wonder if they’re true. Shows just how stupid some of us are when we go on holidays. It will also remind many booksellers of the insane questions we get all year round. Booksellers aren’t the only people who get asked weird questions. The question is who’s gonna write a book about us?” Simone, Calgary Chapters on-line review

When Do You Let the Animals Out? includes more than 500 silly park visitor questions, funny bear, elk and yes, even duck stories, weird tales from the trails, fun quizzes, strange place names, a hysterical look at Rockies history, dozens of wacky photos and assorted odds ’n sods too numerous to list.

This little gem makes the perfect stocking stuffer, birthday present, travel book (it’s small, light-weight and bright yellow so you won’t lose it) or heck, a present for yourself because, darn it, you deserve it (I’m not sure about this one, but I’ll take your word for it).

Table of Contents: Click Here!

$19.95

Looking for a hilarious book?
How about an inside look at the real Alberta?
A unique gift or souvenir?
It’s the perfect stocking stuffer, Father’s Day present, brother/sister-in-law gift, “Welcome to Alberta” gift, “Sorry you’re leaving Alberta” gift or travel companion on those lazy Alberta road trips.

And you don’t even need to be an Albertan to enjoy it!

Part travelogue, part eclectic humour guide, What’s So Funny About Alberta? offers a unique perspective on Alberta. The book is filled with rollicking tales from the open Alberta road, strange Alberta trivia, wacky tourist questions, Alberta jokes, top ten lists, funny photos and much, much more!

“As an Albertan, born and raised, I have always known this province to be an eclectic, oddball, funny place. Michael Kerr has provided the proof.” –– bestselling author Will Ferguson

Discover a side of Alberta that most people don’t know exists, as humorist Michael Kerr dishes out answers to the burning question: What’s So What’s So Funny About Alberta? – Green Funny About Alberta? There is more to Alberta than just low taxes and dead dinosaurs, as your intrepid author discovers on his quest for its lighter side. Come along as he makes like a Trekkie in Vulcan, shops ’til he drops at West Edmonton Mall, goes in search of a national park on the streets of Banff, moseys off to the Calgary Stampede, and gazes hungrily at the world’s largest sausage.

All 224 hilarious, non-fattening, cholesterol-free, PST-free pages can be yours for the amazing price of only . . . $19.95

• Table of Contents for What’s So Funny About Alberta?
• Excerpts from What’s So Funny About Alberta?

Rave Reviews for the bestselling book What’s So Funny About Alberta? What’s So Funny About Alberta?

“Kerr’s pursuit of what’s so funny really is so very funny that you will be doubled over laughing out loud, tears streaming down your face, all while trying to read out loud to anyone around between uncontrollable, blubbering fits of hysteria—his slant on Alberta really is that funny!” Michelle Greyson, Nanton Review Newspaper

“Always humorous and occasionally hilarious, this odd little travelogue is stuffed with bits and bobbles that just have to have you laughing hard or reading out loud to someone else at least once.” Carol Picard, Rocky Mountain Outlook

“You’ll snort coffee out your nose as you pursue his guide to weird in our fair province. You’ll see the province as you never have before.” Leslie Beaton Hedley, Calgary Herald

“What’s So Funny About Alberta? will take you around the province and make you chuckle as it takes you there.” Dave Husdal, Canmore Leader

“With talk of western separation at an all time high, Kerr’s timing couldn’t be better!” Anika Van Wyk, Calgary Sun

“I loved it Great writing, great insights – completely irreverent! “ Feddi Dogterom, Lethbridge, Alberta

“I feel bad about it but I did laugh when I read Mike Kerr’s book. (I couldn’t help it, I swear…)

There’s a lot of funny stuff about being from Alberta that I bet most Albertans don’t even know! I loved this book – Mike Kerr has

a great sense of humour and a wonderful ability to laugh at so many interesting aspects of what it’s like to travel the great province of Alberta. After reading this book, I’ll never be able to look at our western neighbour the same way again. I can hardly wait for his book on Saskatchewan – that ought to be good!” Barry Williams, Saskatchewan

“Michael Kerr’s latest offering is the perfect summer read, and a great tribute to Alberta, especially in this centennial year. It is informative and a great travelogue for those planning to explore this great province, but it is also just a plain fun read even if you’re not on the open road this summer. It is an easy book to pick up and read as time permits, but always a good laugh. Kerr’s easy style provides some “laugh out loud” entertainment and is a must for everyone’s 2005 book list!” Anne Peterson, Canmore, Alberta

“Wow what a riot it is to read this book! It’s so much fun; it goes by quicker than a good old Klondike Stampede! Every Albertan should use a portion of their $400.00 bonus cheque from the provincial government to purchase this book and find out more crazy truths about themselves! Get this book! (But if you’re from The Center of The Universe and you get this book, you probably still won’t get this book!)” Tony Rino, Calgary, Alberta