Now you can harness the awesome power of humor in your personal and professional life. Producing laughter is a skill you can use to benefit yourself as well as others. Besides, it's fun!

Tim Gard, CSP, nationally recognized humorist and authority on stress reduction through humor, has taught thousands to unlock the power of their own "Comic Vision," improving their relationships and turning adversity to their advantage. Tim has traveled both nationally and internationally for the past decade, providing his fast-paced, entertaining and informative good-humor seminars to more than 100 groups annually. In fact, his friends in Denver say they have more sightings of Elvis than they do of Tim!

Tim blends his unique experiences as a student, U.S. sailor, state welfare worker/investigator, federal employee, salesman, factory worker and small business owner into a dynamic, hilarious, good humor program you have to see! Tim's presentations are bursting with interesting and useful information that will help you handle stress in a positive manner, and his "unusual" props drive home the message, making it even more memorable. You haven't lived until you've seen his "noseflute concerto."




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Developing a Comic Vision (Keynote)

The effective use of laughter and good humor too often one of the most often under utilized of business skills.

Used professionally humor is not about telling jokes, laughing at others or being a "comedian".  It is about consistently and effectively using humor as a business skill for yourself and your internal and external customers.  Just as leadership skills can be learned, so can anyone learn to use humor as a business skill if they choose to use their Comic Vision TM .

Choosing to develop and use your own Comic Vision enables anyone to be able to harness humor to refresh and renew themselves in between negative situational stress factors they encounter, how to deal with toxic people and psychic vampires, how to use humor appropriately as a business skill and decrease "hassles" while increasing their "like-ability".    Laugh and learn with Tim as he shares his proven methods for developing your own Comic Vision TM.

Attend this session and learn how easy it is to develop your own Comic Vision TM philosophy:

IMPORTANT NOTE:   Each comic visions program is tailored to the customer and the services they provide.  For detailed information about how tim tailors his Comic Vision © events to specific industry such as Health Care,  Military,  Civilian Government,  professional organizations,  Customer Service,   ask for more information about the following Comic Visions TM categories.

Leadership ... The Tao of Humor (Workshop)

Just as leadership skills can be learned, so can anyone learn to use humor as a business skill if they choose to use their Comic Visions TM leadership philosophy.

We live in difficult times.  Doing more with less is not the exception it is the rule and supervisors, and managers are also tasked to inspire their "troops" to be able to do all the work with just a fraction of the staffing and resources they need.  Today's leaders need all the help they can get.   The effective use of laughter and good humor is just one of the most often overlooked of the leadership tools.  Used professionally humor is not about telling jokes, laughing at others or being a "comedian".  It is about consistently and effectively using humor as a business skill for yourself and your internal and external customers.  Leaders create compelling futures that employees want to be a part of.  Humor is just one of the tools available to any great leader

Today, almost everyone has heard of, or read about, how humor can be used in the workplace.   However, when humor occurs during work time it can have a very positive or an equally negative effect.  Harnessed positively, good humor can be a strategic skill and act as a positive factor in communication, morale and stress reduction.  However, bad humor can become a negative factor in the same areas while becoming a source of complaints, employee rights violations and litigation.  In this workshop Tim explores good humor guidelines that private industry and state and federal groups can do to positively harness humor and avoid the potentially negative effects.

* Easy to use and understand examples of good and bad humor at work.
* Learn why, as with any humor, timing is critical to success.
* Discover our humor styles and how we can use this to become more effective communicators.
* How to encourage good humor and discourage bad humor.
* How to understand what the guidelines for humor and diversity are
* Discover the difference between leadership and authority
* How to be a good Humor Leader
* Good and Bad humor in the workplace

 Change the Game: Don't Lose Your Marbles (Keynote)

Life is a game. Business is a game. Literally, everything is a game with winners, losers, spectators-plus those who excel by intention and those who coast by choice.

In the world of work, it's a problem when bench warmers who constantly coast by choice get paid the same as those who excel by intention. Yet it's part of most of the games we play, whether we like it or not.

Perhaps you've heard the idiom "there are no rules." Well, there are rules to every game, but some are fixed, some are flexible, and some become obsolete during the game. What's more, some rules apply to some players, some players seem exempt from the rules, some get away with it, some do not.

In the workplace, people experience conflicting rules, contradictory guidelines, and confusing policies. Yet, once you understand the basics of any game, you have three options: You can play the existing game, quit it, or change it.

But can one person actually change the game? Without a doubt, the answer is yes. The secret lies in applying easy-to-understand and hard-to-forget concepts that you can use immediately (or choose to disregard and continue to coast).

Within your organization, how can all employees best play the game that achieves their most successful outcomes? Answering that question led me to create a new content-rich, laughter-filled program using the game of "marbles" as a metaphor for the game of work.

As a participant in this program, you'll take away the following:

* Learn how to play the game and choose to be the best player possible.
* Set your own game rules and not lose your marbles while playing the game.
* Find out how to write and implement your own game plan.
* Determine what part greed and laziness play in the game.
* Move one step ahead with humor (or stay two steps behind without it).
* Recognize how "hassle" and "likeability" factors affect the game.
* Apply a "chlorophyll growth control philosophy" to your advantage.
* Learn why your before-work "game face" and end-of-day "dismount" can improve your morale.

Of course, your success in one game doesn't guarantee your success in any other game. Basketball great Michael Jordan didn't make the cut in the majors when he changed to baseball. But when you apply the concepts in this program to your game, you can increase your options-and love to play your best game ever.