Laffirmations: 1,001 Ways to Add Humor to Your Life and Work Joel Goodman
Joel believes that "Seven days without laughter make one weak." With this in mind, he delivers 52 weeks of ideas (more than 1,001) to jump-start your sense of humor. Each day of the year includes a thought-provoking quote, a question, along with a practical, action-inviting humor tip designed to help you get more smileage out of your life and work.
This portable, handy book also includes special guest appearances from the affable/laffable cartoon character, Ziggy®. The rich collection of quotes comes from the wit and wisdom of Bill Cosby, Lily Tomlin, Jerry Seinfeld, Carol Burnett, Charlie Chaplin, Bernie Siegel and many others. The questions are designed to help you discover where humor already exists in your life and where you need to add a dash. The humor tips are drawn from the 2,000,000+ participants in Dr. Goodman's programs, and will help increase your Humor Quotient both in your personal life and on the job. In short, Laffirmations will help you to discover, recover, affirm, and integrate your sense of humor every day. With this timeless and timely book, you will be grinning from year to year.
Pat Paulsen: "If elected President of the United States, one of my first acts would be to appoint Joel Goodman as Secretary of Humor. But until that time, I would highly recommend that you buy this book!"
Steve Allen: "I applaud and appreciate Joel Goodman's pioneering work on the positive power of humor. As Joel says, 'Humor is for giving!' Laffirmations will give you- or someone you care about- the gift of humor."
Autographed copies available on request.
The Big Book of Meeting Games: 75 Quick, Fun Activities for Leading Creative, Energetic,Productive Meetings Marlene Caroselli
If you have ever thought or uttered the words, "Oh, no! Not another meeting!," then the newest in "The Big Book" series is for you! This goldmine guide is also for meeting leaders, facilitators, trainers, and teachers who would welcome 75 activities to keep participants awake, involved, and eager to provide input and generate creative solutions. These five-minutes-or-less exercises are powerful and fun tools for any group, class or business meeting to: help break the ice, convert complainers into contributors, find opportunities in problems, encourage full participation, achieve consensus among opposing viewpoints, disarm confrontational people, expedite decision-making, and transform "bored meetings" into engaging, energizing, and inspiring gatherings.
The Toastmaster's Treasure Chest Herbert Prochnow and Herbert Prochnow, Jr.
This book is true to its title- with over 7200 humorous, witty, and inspirational quotations and quips, you have enough material here to use one-a-day for twenty years! You'll find lots of gems to arouse the interest of your audience and add sparkle to your speeches and presentations. Each quote is numbered and tied in with a comprehensive index (47 pages!) of hundreds of subjects, so that you can locate jest the right/light quote quickly. This treasure chest would also be a great resource if you enjoy reading short-and-sweet-and-witty-and-wise sayings... as a way to add color to your conversations and to your life.
The Southwest Airlines Way: The Power of Relationships for Superior Performance Jody Gittell
Southwest Airlines (official airline for our April conference) received the first Corporate Compassion, Humor & Creativity Award from The HUMOR Project. Discover the inner workings of the company that Fortune magazine called "the most successful airline in history." With a market value greater than the rest of the U.S. airline industry combined, Southwest is a remarkable company with amazing and amusing management practices. They must be doing something light! With love and laughter as a foundation, Southwest created a culture of people who have fun, take responsibility, engage in a real team effort, and get a tremendous amount of work done. This hot-off-the-press book documents the secrets to their success... and how you can apply these relationship-based performance principles and people-management practices with dramatic results in your own life and work. Full of frontline tales of Southwest's innovative management style, this compelling book reveals how any organization can implement Southwest's secrets to having the funny line and the bottom line meet.
201 Icebreakers: Group Mixers, Warm-Ups, Energizers, and Playful Activities Edie West
This is the largest and most imaginative collection of icebreakers you'll find anywhere! Re-energize trainees or workshop participants on the brink of boredom, stimulate positive interaction and creative thinking, generate excitement about the subject of a meeting or the topic of a speech, boost problem-solving skills, and much more! Includes reproducibles along with a handy matrix to help you find the perfect icebreaker for any group in seconds! Each activity comes complete with how-to guidelines and requires virtually no prep time. Best of all, most can be completed in five minutes or less, so you can rekindle the group's enthusiasm and get your session back on track... fast!
Almost Home: Embracing The Magical Connection Between Positive Humor & Spirituality Jacki Kwan
This new heartfelt memoir/self-help book will inspire you to have a joyous "homecoming" experience as you meet the elf in yourself. Discover the journey one woman took to bring laughter into her life and the lives of others and how she embraced the intricate and intimate connection between positive humor and spirituality. You'll learn how humor can have a profound influence on your quality of life and your passion for tomorrow. You'll also find how humor therapy has helped and can help people suffering from dementia, Alzheimer's, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and a host of other medical challenges. Through Jacki's poignant stories and practical tips (e.g., for setting up a humor therapy program), you'll develop the (comic) spirit that can bring the "spark" of life back to you and others.
Be the Star You Are!: 99 Gifts for Living, Loving, Laughing, and Learning to Make a Difference Cynthia Brian
As Bill Shakespeare once said, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." How can you "act" so that you lead a fulfilling life and make a difference for others? Cynthia (who will be leading one of our pre-conference workshops- see page 11) gives you 99 alphabetically-arranged gifts like Affirmation, Challenge, Dedication, Fun, Grace, Health, Imagination, Leadership, Spontaneity, etc. Each gift includes a personal story, a positive message, a simple exercise, and an apt axiom... essentially, the ingredients for your recipe to be the star you are and to live your dreams. Bernie Siegel in the Foreword: "This book shares many gifts with you. Let Cynthia be your acting coach so your life is filled with joy and love."
The Doctor's Book of Humorous Quotations: A Treasuryof Funny Quotes, Jokes and One-Liners Howard Bennett, M.D.
This book is just what the doctor compiled! Physician Howard Bennett has collected over 1700 short-and-sweet-and-funny humorous bits about all aspects of medicine and health care. It's a funny book that you can dip into any time you need a "humor shot-in-the-arm." It also serves as a goldmine reference for anybody who makes presentations to health care professionals and other audiences. This A-Z anthology will help everyone to see the humor in (and value of) humor in medical settings as it reinforces the notion that "There's a lot of fun in medicine... and a lot of medicine in fun!"
Big Book of Humorous Training Games Doni Tamblyn and Sharyn Weiss
Our customers were soooooooooooooo excited to see this book-the perfect resource for any speaker, trainer or teacher who believes that laughter and learning can (and should) go hand-in-hand. Each chapter in this easy-to-read book offers games/icebreakers that focus on such issues as customer service, team-building, creative problem solving, time management, reducing workplace negativity, management skills, dealing with change, emotional intelligence, how to be a naturally funny trainer, and much more. Step-by-step instructions coupled with dozens of reproducible handouts, suggested debriefing questions, and comic delivery tips will help you minimize preparation time and maximize training success. This laugh-and-learn book shows that humor is fun-damental: the fun comes along with da mental!
Big Book of Laughter: Thousands of Smiles from A to Z Lowell Streiker
This compendium is filled with more than 3000 jokes, anecdotes, quotes, quips, cartoons, stories, and fun-liners arranged alphabetically by topics from A to Z. Use this great collection to lighten and enlighten your writing, programs, meetings, presentations or classes. It's also a great resource if you love to laugh... or need a laugh! There's something for everyone in this incredible laughfest compilation. We heartily recommend this book if you want to put a smile on your face and a smile in the hearts of others.
Big Book of Motivation Games: Quick, Fun Activities for Energizing People at Work and at Home Robert Epstein with Jessica Rogers
For managers, leaders, speakers, trainers, and individuals seeking to motivate themselves and others, here is a lighthearted book that includes dozens of fast, simple icebreakers along with reproducible handouts/overheads. It contains two unique tests that you can use to measure your "motivation competencies" and to select the exercises to: jump-start personal as well as team motivation, fight boredom and burnout, improve performance, overcome failure, boost energy when it's low, enhance managerial skills, stop procrastination, help people through tough times, and much more! The activities in this book can be customized to suit your specific needs and group size. We know you'll be motivated to pick up this book!
Cartoons for Trainers: 75 Cartoons to Use or Adapt for Transitions, Activities, Discussion Points, Ice-Breakers, and Much More (with CD-ROM) Lenn Millbower and Doris Yager
As speakers and trainers know, cartoons can be an excellent resource for making key learning points in an enjoyable, engaging manner. However, reproduction fees for cartoons can be expensive, permissions hard to obtain, and copyright holders difficult to track down. This book and accompanying CD (for PC and Mac electronic presentations) have the solution: purchase of the book constitutes permission for you to reproduce the cartoons on overheads or in your favorite presentation software. The book-CD dynamic duo contains 75 original cartoons that exhibit a tongue-in-cheek wit that make good-natured fun of teaching and learning. The cartoons are printed twice- once with captions and once without (so that you can insert your own text). Each cartoon also has tips on how to use it as well as sample patter for introducing "the moral of the story" that the cartoon pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words... and this book is worth a thousand bucks (in the licensing agreement alone)! A terrific item for your training/teaching toolbox.
Ken Blanchard tells it like it is in the Foreword: "This book picks up where Who Moved My Cheese left off. The bottom line is that, with the help of insights and tips in this book, you can mine and claim your change power." Taking a conversational approach to a serious subject, Pat uses stories, examples, and illustrations to drive home the message that everybody in an organization has the power to make changes for the better. Questionnaires throughout the book enable you to evaluate how ready you are to make the most of both planned and unplanned change. Stephen Covey sums it up: "This book is an insightful blend of wisdom, principles, examples, and humor, as well as many how-tos when it comes to dealing with the inevitable- change!"
Classic Podium Humor: Using Wit and Humor in Every Speech You Make James Humes
Speechwriter for five Presidents, the author provides an amusing anthology for speakers who want to be consistently funny. Extensively cross-referenced and arranged by subject for maximum accessibility, this is an indispensable book for those of you who want to add sophisticated humor in your presentations. But stories, anecdotes, and jokes are only part of what it offers. You will also explore the anatomy of humor, the 3 R's of humor (Relevancy, Realism, and Retellability), the Rule of Three B's (to connect your humor to your message), inside "how-to" tips for integrating humor in presentations, and strategies for transforming speaking pitfalls into memorable high points.
Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner
This updated and revised 500,000+ international best-seller has been a best-seller for us, too! See V-40-07 on page 40 for a great video that describes just some of the rich content you'll also find in this book. This book and the video make for a powerful dynamic duo that will also bring out the best in you!
Don't Laugh at Me (with CD-ROM) Steve Seskin and Allen Shamblin, Illustrations by Glin Dibley, Afterword by Peter Yarrow
Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary fame is the opening keynote presenter at our 2003 annual international conference (see page 13). "Don't Laugh at Me," the powerful anthem for a bully-free and ridicule-free world, inspired Peter to start the Don't Laugh at Me Project. The moving music is brought into full-color harmony through rich, emotionally engaging illustrations. The audio CD that comes with the book includes the recording by the authors, the musical score, and an instrumental version for sing-alongs. A portion of the proceeds from book sales will be donated to the not-for-profit Don't Laugh at Me Project. This book and CD are a must-have gift for every child... and for every adult who cares about children.
The Emotional Intelligence Activity Book: 50 Activities for Promoting EQ at Work Adele Lynn
This is the first book of activities dedicated to developing Emotional Intelligence which is a greater predictor of success in life and at work than I.Q. You'll find 50 innovative activities to be used either for individuals or groups. Arranged according to the 5 core competencies of E.I. (self-awareness and control, empathy, social expertness, mastery of vision, and personal influence), the book features fun, field-proven exercises, easy-to-use reproducible worksheets, and valuable debriefing questions. As an added bonus, the author also offers coaching tips and training formats for half-day, 1-day, and 2-day programs.
An Encyclopedia of Compelling Quotations (with CD-ROM) R. Daniel Watkins
This is the best quote source we've ever discovered... and you can quote us on that! Packed with over 10,000 quotes from over 3200 individuals, and subdivided into almost 1000 topics, this book will add to any conversation, article or presentation you make. These pithy, uplifting quotes have been culled from more than 250 collections. The book is alphabetized by topic, so it's easy to find that perfect quote. The CD-ROM also includes 10,000+ quotes and the ability for you to: browse by topic or title, search by word or phrase, fast copy and paste, rate each quote on a scale of 1-10, and add your own illustrations. CD-ROM requires Windows 98, 95, NT or later, 16 MB RAM, minimum 7 MB hard disk space, CD-ROM drive.
Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It: A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus Roger von Oech
Here is a great sequel to Roger's creativity classic, A Whack on the Side of the Head. Open your mind with innovation strategies that are as relevant and powerful today as they were 2500 years ago when provocative Heraclitus cooked them up. A former keynote speaker at our conference and world leader in creativity, Roger breathes fresh life into such creativity tools as: appreciating turbulence, practicing forgetting, asking a fool, seeing the obvious, connecting the unconnected, using what's not there, and reversing assumptions. Whether you read it start-to-finish as a creativity workbook or consult it as a daily oracle, expect to find in this book a welcome jolt to your imagination.
Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work Leslie Yerkes
Disposing of the myth that fun and work are mutually exclusive, this book will motivate you to unleash the power of fun in your workplace. Leslie shares real-life examples, strategies, ideas, resources, tools, tips, and techniques that will help any organization become a place where people love to work. By harnessing the power of fun, companies find they can better retain employees and customers, motivate teams, improve productivity, increase innovation, and build esprit de corps. Leslie details precisely how 11 successful companies have integrated fun into the normal course of business and shows how this has translated into improved results across the board. Drawing on these success stories, Leslie illustrates the 11 powerful Principles of the "Fun/Work Fusion." This book will inspire you to inject a sense of playfulness and joy into your workday.
How to Be a People Magnet: Finding Friends- and Lovers- and Keeping Them for Life Leil Lowndes
This book reveals specific and proven techniques you can use to become a magnet for interesting and engaging people. You'll learn the secrets of attracting friends for fun and romance as well as networking to strengthen business contacts and relationships. Whether you are shy or outgoing, you can use these tips to: encourage strangers to like you instantly; stamp out that Fatal FUD Factor (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt); make everyone around you feel singularly special; avoid the two biggest mistakes when meeting someone new; and win hearts in ten words or less.
Humor as an Instructional Defibrillator: Evidence-Based Techniques in Teaching and Assessment Ronald Berk
"Not as much fun as Quidditch, but should be required reading for faculty at the Hogwarts School." (Harry Potter) This book could be required reading for any teacher who wants to pick up powerful, evidence-based humor techniques for in-class delivery, course handout materials, web sites, distance learning, and even course exams (to minimize test anxiety and maximize retention). We love Ron's sense of humor that pervades the practical ideas throughout the book- he truly practices what he teaches! You will learn terrific techniques that are applicable to any instructional level (even... and especially... the most "serious" of subjects). You'll come away with tremendous tips for using humor to connect with your students... and for helping them to connect with the subject matter. This book showcases humor as a legitimate teaching tool that can be systematically planned in K-12, university, and adult education classes.
Improvise This!: How to Think on Your Feet So You Don't Fall on Your Face Mark Bergren, Molly Cox, and Jim Detmar
Are you surprised to learn that the most successful people have learned a lot from the world of improvisation? Lightning-quick responses, keen powers of observation, and confidence are qualities that can help anyone go far. This unique guide, written by a trio of professional improv trainers and performers (see page 16), teaches you spontaneous combustion skills (igniting your creative spark) and foolproof ways to improvise your way out of any situation. Filled with amusing anecdotes, sound advice, easy exercises, and true-to-life practice scenarios, this is an invaluable resource for you to improve with improv. Go out on a whim and buy this book.
Keeping Your Boat Afloat When the Big One Hits: A Practical Crisis Survival Guide Kim Hupp
This book is just what the doctor ordered! Kim provides a powerful, playful prescription for tackling personal strife, tragedies, crises, or simply the everyday stresses of life! Kim is a living inspiration... and she walks her talk as she shows you how to: transform upheaval into opportunity, regain your perspective, get back on an even keel, and discover hidden talents and strengths. It includes a great balance of humorous and creative quotes and anecdotes, thought-provoking questions, and tested tips and insights for surviving and thriving in life. Drawing on her own personal experience of transforming can-cer into a can-do attitude, Kim's empowering spirit is contagious.
Kids Who Laugh: How to Develop Your Child's Sense of Humor Louis Franzini
In this groundbreaking book, you will discover the many benefits of humor as well as the fact that humor is a learned behavior- a skill that parents can teach their kids through a wide assortment of exercises and games. Each activity is fun, easy, and designed to appeal to children of a specific age, ranging from newborns to teens. Special chapters focus on the characteristics of children's humor, how to encourage your child to create humor, potential abuses of humor by children (and how to avoid them), humor for use by special needs children, and tips for teachers to promote healthy humor in the classroom. Give your child the gift of laughter as a lifetime tool for success.
Laugh and Learn: 95 Ways to Use Humor for More Effective Teaching and Training Doni Tamblyn
First, this is a really fun book to read! Second, it's no joke: injecting humor in the classroom can get you serious results! This enlightening book shows how even the most funny-phobic teachers and trainers can use humor, creativity, entertainment, and emotion to increase alertness, participation, and learning. Incorporating the latest research on brain-compatible learning, and featuring tons of fun exercises and thought-provoking games, this practical guide shows you how to develop your own Humor Quotient and how to introduce humor into your presentations (even with technical topics). Drawing on the author's experience in comedy, corporate training, and Traffic Violator School (talk about a tough crowd!), this book is chock-full of terrific tips, techniques, anecdotes, and workshop exercises showing that laughing and learning go hand-in-hand.
Motivating and Retaining Employees: Handle With Care: Creative, Low-Cost Ways to Raise Morale, Increase Commitment, and Reduce Turnover Barbara Glanz
Based on research with employees at dozens of organizations, this book provides hundreds of practical, real-life ways managers can engage, develop, and motivate employees to peak performance. Through an incredible array of excellent mini-case-studies ("Ideas in Action"), you'll learn positive, tried-and-true: approaches to create an organizational culture that is supportive instead of cutthroat; strategies to maximize profitability and joy on the job; tips for making employees want to do their best work; and tools for reducing dissatisfaction and turnover. After reading this book, you will be motivated to retain (and put into practice) the CARE model for understanding what employees really want: Creative Communication, Atmosphere and Appreciation for All, Respect and Reason for being, Empathy and Enthusiasm.
NEVER Act Your Age: Play the Happy Childlike Role Well at Every Age Dale Anderson, M.D.
The witty, whimsical Dr. Anderson is a surgeon who keeps you in stitches as he prescribes laughter to turn on your body's upbeat chemistry- those "drugs" dispensed from your inner pharmacy that make you happy, healthy, and feeling years younger. Using humor, fun, and creative method acting techniques, this book identifies how to have a natural high as you catch and spread a contagious HAPPYdemic. You'll learn ways to: re-experience a childlike perspective, become an inner-tainer, and move from elderly to WELLderly. In the long run, you'll see that method acting is the ho-ho-holistic medicine of the 21st Century, that happiness and laughter are learned skills, and that VP's (Vintage People) should never act their age.
Playfair: Everybody's Guide to Noncompetitive Play Matt Weinstein and Joel Goodman
This perennial best-seller has hundreds of energizers, icebreakers, and invigorating ideas on how to build more laughter, playfulness, and cooperation into your office, home or classroom. Learn how you can create one million playful activities in ten minutes and how you can discover the playful elf in yourself. Fun to read, this book is a "keeper" for any of you interested in inviting more playful perspectives in your otherwise serious lives and jobs. Every trainer, teacher, manager, parent, and group leader should have a copy of this classic, which has sold over 50,000 copies!
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Preventing Death By Lecture: Terrific Tips For Turning Listeners Into Learners Sharon Bowman
The title alone is worth the price of admission to this book! As she'll do in our 2003 conference (see pages 15 and 19), Sharon adds new life to both teaching and learning. She shares twenty great guidelines, many "bonus tips," and lots of learner-centered activities that infuse energy, interest, and joy in learning. If you want to make your lectures, presentations, speeches, and classes interactive and unforgettable, this book is for you! You'll love the variety of 30-second to five-minute icebreakers you can use in the beginning, middle, and end of presentations.
The Consultant's Big Book of Organization Development Tools: 50 Reproducible Intervention Tools and Activities Mel Silberman
This book offers incredible value for the consultant, speaker or facilitator who wants to use hands-on structured exercises, team-building activities or simulations in meetings and retreats, one-to-one coaching, and training sessions. The tools and reproducible handouts feature step-by-step facilitation instructions and resources that can be downloaded, copied or customized from the Web (at no additional charge)-the worth of this book goes well beyond its covers!
The Laughing Classroom: Everyone's Guide to Teaching with Humor and Play Diana Loomans and Karen Kolberg
We welcome back to our catalog the new edition of the most popular humor-in-education book we have ever carried! This book helps move teachers from a "limiting" teaching style to a "laughing" style that inspires creativity and helps students learn faster and better. This volume is packed with hundreds of hands-on techniques tested by tens of thousands of teachers and students. Discover ways to apply humor and play to all aspects of teaching, the high fives of humor, fifty excuses for not laughing, and nifty ways to learn by laughing. Included are self-help tests, heartwarming vignettes, informative charts and a Foreword by Steve Allen, who said "This book can inspire you to become a master teacher."
