Happy New Year! Let’s welcome 2023 with this collaboration with the StoryTalks podcast. If you find yourself having a hard time enjoying your “off time” because you’re so used to being on all the time, then this is the episode for you.
Key Takeaways:
- Reading the room is a skill
- How holding in your humor can backfire on you
- How humor can be used to engage employees
- How to know if you are being too serious
- What to do when you feel like you lost your funny bone
- Get to know Heather Walker
- What is Levity?
- The origin of Lead with Levity
- Humor Effect & the benefits of using humor at work.
- What is Lead with Levity all about?
About the Guests
Jerome Deroy: “My own experience as a new hire was unsatisfying. Yes, I learned about the company culture over time. But it lacked direction. Through my storytelling work, I’ve come to understand the power stories have to share culture viscerally, in an engaging and lasting way.”
Jerome has worked closely with clients as diverse as CIGNA, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Janssen Pharma, and Warby Parker to craft business-relevant personal stories for sales, leadership, and team building. He regularly lectures at Parsons New School of Design in New York City on The Art of Storytelling.
Julienne B. Ryan: Julienne B. Ryan is a Communications Catalyst. She has spent the balance of her career working in Human Resources, developing talent and championing the benefits of developing diverse communities in corporations, associations and schools. Ryan has always focused on helping people be comfortable at work by communicating better. This involved using common sense, humor and storytelling to humanize challenging situations and interactions. Now she guides her clients helping them to use their stories to teach, motivate and engage their staff, volunteers and customers.
Ryan is an organizational storyteller, a keynote speaker, trainer and coach is the author of the humorous book “The Learned-It-In Queens Communications Playbook – Winning Against Digital Distraction” in which she outlines eight (8) winning “plays.” or techniques that promote calm communication and reduce conflict with quirky humor that keeps the readers smiling.
