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Lighten Up! Overcoming Terminal Professionalism

Lighten Up! Overcoming Terminal Professionalism. Presented by: Jennifer Medley – Student Loan Xpress B.J. Moncure – Jackson State University. What’s Up With TP. Badge of honor TP undermines productivity, creativity, adaptability, morale Symptoms

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Lighten Up! Overcoming Terminal Professionalism

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  1. Lighten Up!Overcoming Terminal Professionalism Presented by: Jennifer Medley – Student Loan Xpress B.J. Moncure – Jackson State University

  2. What’s Up With TP • Badge of honor • TP undermines productivity, creativity, adaptability, morale • Symptoms • Inability to distinguish between who you are & your career, your children… • Chronic fatigue • 110% syndrome • Job dissatisfaction

  3. Effects of “TP” • Physical • Increased blood pressure • Depressed immune system • Chronic fatigue • Head or neck ache • Sleep disorders • Emotion • Anger • Anxiety • Impatience • Irritability • Low Self Esteem • Behavior • Inability to concentrate • Trouble with relationships • Anxiety or panic attacks • Memory loss • Excessive consumption

  4. Lighten Up & Live • Grace under pressure • Relieve stress • Attitude & outlook • Humor skills • Get SERIOUS about silliness • Difference between stupid & silly

  5. Tighten Up & Leave • Fear of foolishness • Anger or dread • Life’s a bummer • Stuck in General Adaptation Syndrome

  6. General Adaptation Syndrome (aka GAS) • Stage 1: The Alarm Reaction • Stage 2: Resistance • Stage 3: Exhaustion

  7. How Do You Spell Relief? • Valve 1: Attitude • Valve 2: Physical Release • Valve 3: Mental Discipline • Valve 4: Humor

  8. Dare To Be Foolish! Practice Humorobics!! • Humorobics #1 • Stand • Breathe • Smile • Humorobics #2 • Photo Funnies Develop Humor Skills • Escape from Center of the Universe • Take Yourself Lightly and Your Work/Challenges Seriously • Misery & Pain Are Free – Joy Has A Price Are we cute or what!

  9. Humor Skill #1Escape from the Center of the Universe • Rise equal to or above problems through humor perspective • Understand your true place in the scheme of the universe!

  10. Scheme of the Universe The Known Universe Center We are here!

  11. Top 3 Warning Signs Center of the Universe-itis • Number 3: It’s NEVER your fault! • Number 2: It’s ALWAYS your fault! • Number 1: Combination of #2 & #3 !!

  12. Help Me Escape! • Humor library • Funny file/notebook • Humor inventory • Aka “My Miserable Life” or “How I Lost My Humor Perspective” by (your name) • Humorobics #3 • Nose job

  13. Humor Skill #2Take Yourself Lightly & Your Work/Challenges Seriously • When the going gets tough… • What’s the cause? • What do we do? • Why do we do it? • What can we control?

  14. How ‘Ya Doing? OR Terminal Professional Serious Player

  15. The 1% Solution Plus conversations Mini-vacations Tell Me How!

  16. FREE time for you! • Find 5 minutes every day to be alone with all your senses. • Relax through deep breathing, visualization • Exercise minimum 20 minutes every day. • Enjoy humor - laugh frequently!

  17. Weekends Only Calendar Friday Saturday Sunday Take me away

  18. Disciplined sense in joy of being alive Joy list Learn to play Weekends only calendar Humor Skill #3Misery & Pain Are Free – Joy Has A Price!

  19. Help for the TP Employee • Draw the line • Desk training • Secret silliness

  20. Don’t cultivate workaholics Recognize difference between hard worker & workaholic Work, YES – let it be fun NUTS Lighten Up! techniques Align best interest of business in line with workers’ best interest “Best Place” Help for the TP Employer

  21. Today’s “Best Place” Corporation • Fosters creativity • Matches people’s work with their passion • Capitalizes on ideas & innovation • Meets professional & emotional needs • Develops emotional intelligence • Taps into cultural capital

  22. Humor Etiquette • Know your audience • Don’t use humor as a hammer • Use jokes that • Bond, not separate • Relieve tension, not create it

  23. Thank You, Friends & Colleagues! Enjoy your day & remember to… Lighten Up!

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