lighten up! overcoming terminal professionalism
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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
– Inability to distinguish between who you are & your career, your children…
– Chronic fatigue
– 110% syndrome
– Job dissatisfaction
Effects of “TP”
• Emotion
•Anger
•Anxiety
•Impatience
•Irritability
•Low Self Esteem
• Physical
•Increased blood pressure
•Depressed immune system
•Chronic fatigue
•Head or neck ache
•Sleep disorders
• Behavior
•Inability to concentrate
•Trouble with relationships
•Anxiety or panic attacks
•Memory loss
•Excessive consumption
Lighten Up & Live
• Grace under pressure• Relieve stress• Attitude & outlook• Humor skills• Get SERIOUS about silliness
– Difference between stupid & silly
Tighten Up & Leave
• Fear of foolishness
• Anger or dread
• Life’s a bummer– Stuck in General Adaptation Syndrome
General Adaptation Syndrome (aka GAS)
• Stage 1: The Alarm Reaction
• Stage 2: Resistance
• Stage 3: Exhaustion
How Do You Spell Relief?
• Valve 1: Attitude
• Valve 2: Physical Release
• Valve 3: Mental Discipline
• Valve 4: Humor
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!
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!
Scheme of the Universe
The Known Universe
Center
We are here!
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 !!
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
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?
How ‘Ya Doing?
Terminal Professional
OR
Serious Player
Tell Me How!
• The 1% Solution
• Plus conversations
• Mini-vacations
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!
Weekends Only Calendar
Take me away
Humor Skill #3Misery & Pain Are Free – Joy Has A Price!
• Disciplined sense in joy of being alive
• Joy list
• Learn to play
• Weekends only calendar
Help for the TP Employee
• Draw the line
• Desk training
• Secret silliness
Help for the TP Employer
• 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”
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
Humor Etiquette
• Know your audience• Don’t use humor as a hammer• Use jokes that
– Bond, not separate
– Relieve tension, not create it
Thank You, Friends &
Colleagues!Enjoy your day & remember
to…
Lighten Up!