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Sep 11, 2019
4 min

How Humor can Help with Meetings

In a recent article, author Alison Green bemoans meetings and the negative effects they can and often have. They're too long. They wander...

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Michael Cundall Jr.

Aug 29, 2019
3 min

Say Stuff a Little Differently

One of the hardest things any teacher, speaker or presenter has to do is keep their audience engaged. We well know and have all...

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Michael Cundall Jr.

Jul 30, 2019
4 min

Quip It, Quip It Good.

How many times a day do you make a quip? Are you a quipster or more frugal with quips? Me? I love quips, I try to use them as much as I...

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Michael Cundall Jr.

Jul 3, 2019
4 min

Dear HR

Dear HR and Management folks. I want to prove to you that humor in the workplace is not something that you should fear. Far from being...

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Humor, Stress, and Engagement: Following Up Last Week's Post

Michael Cundall Jr.

May 1, 2019
3 min

Humor, Stress, and Engagement: Following Up Last Week's Post

I focused on a whole bunch of numbers that painted a rather gloomy outlook for the workforce. Turnover is high and likely to get worse...

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The ridiculously high cost of disengagement, turnover and how humor can help

Michael Cundall Jr.

Apr 23, 2019
4 min

The ridiculously high cost of disengagement, turnover and how humor can help

If you’re a business owner or in HR, or anyone who pays attention the radically widespread costs of employee disengagement and turnover,...

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Michael Cundall Jr.

Mar 9
3 min

Physics Can Be Funny

Writing with humor is often difficult. It’s even harder still to catch the humor when we read, as accustomed as we are to believing that...

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Michael Cundall Jr.

Feb 3
2 min

Leading with Humor: Authenticity

The classical pianist/humorist Victor Borge once said “the shortest distance between two people is a smile.” Authenticity has become an...

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