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

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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 Presentation

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Page 1: Lighten Up! Overcoming Terminal Professionalism

Lighten Up!Overcoming

Terminal Professionalism

Presented by: Jennifer Medley – Student Loan Xpress B.J. Moncure – Jackson State University

Page 2: Lighten Up! Overcoming Terminal Professionalism

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

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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

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Lighten Up & Live

• Grace under pressure• Relieve stress• Attitude & outlook• Humor skills• Get SERIOUS about silliness

– Difference between stupid & silly

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Tighten Up & Leave

• Fear of foolishness

• Anger or dread

• Life’s a bummer– Stuck in General Adaptation Syndrome

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General Adaptation Syndrome (aka GAS)

• Stage 1: The Alarm Reaction

• Stage 2: Resistance

• Stage 3: Exhaustion

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How Do You Spell Relief?

• Valve 1: Attitude

• Valve 2: Physical Release

• Valve 3: Mental Discipline

• Valve 4: Humor

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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!

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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!

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Scheme of the Universe

The Known Universe

Center

We are here!

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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 !!

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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

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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?

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How ‘Ya Doing?

Terminal Professional

OR

Serious Player

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Tell Me How!

• The 1% Solution

• Plus conversations

• Mini-vacations

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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!

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Weekends Only Calendar

Take me away

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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

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Help for the TP Employee

• Draw the line

• Desk training

• Secret silliness

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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”

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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

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Humor Etiquette

• Know your audience• Don’t use humor as a hammer• Use jokes that

– Bond, not separate

– Relieve tension, not create it

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Thank You, Friends &

Colleagues!Enjoy your day & remember

to…

Lighten Up!