Priming Your Remote Team for Humor

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In this course, you'll explore the five enablers of humor in remote teams: safety, connectedness, agency, growth, and purpose. You'll learn the significance of each enabler, how they create the conditions for joy to flourish, and how to amplify them. Next, you'll take a diagnostic designed to help you understand which enablers your team members most naturally channel, and where you have the greatest opportunity to grow. Finally, you'll take on team building activities to strengthen these enablers within your organization.

This is Course 2 of 3 in the Remotely Humorous Program taught by Naomi Bagdonas and Connor Diemand-Yauman are leading experts who have taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. They've teamed up with comedic minds from The Onion, Funny Or Die, and many more impressive comedy mainstays to create a fun, interactive learning experience, focused on cultivating humor and levity in virtual teams and empowering you to show up at work more authentically, effectively, and joyfully.

What you will learn

• Understand the five enablers of humor

• Diagnose your team culture; understand what’s nurturing and impeding levity

• Bolster your team’s safety, connectedness, agency, growth, and purpose

• Create the conditions for humor in your remote teams

Skills you learn

• Virtual Teams
• Team Building

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"Priming Your Remote Team for Humor" is a foundational course in personal development, guided by experts Naomi Bagdonas and Connor Diemand-Yauman. This engaging 42-hour course, part of the Remotely Humorous Program, focuses on enhancing humor in remote teams through safety, connectedness, agency, growth, and purpose. Learners will diagnose their team's humor enablers and engage in team-building activities. Offered by edX with a Starter subscription, it's ideal for those looking to bring joy and authenticity to virtual work environments.