The keynote of the day will be delivered by Stephanie Davies CEO of Laughology. Happiness and humour; The secret to engaged, successful teams, will bring attendees through the science and psychology of motivation, emotions, happiness and humour and will highlight how a happy workforce is more open to change.

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Happiness and humour; The secret to
engaged, successful teams
Stephanie Davies CEO Laughology

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Why Laughology?
☺Engaging learning programmes
☺Increased, happiness &
investment in emotional
capital
☺ We do things differently

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Laughter Humour
Laughter & humour

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How we look at life
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How do you ‘choose’ to look at life?

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Humour triggers
Write down as many
things/words/situations that
make you laugh
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Happiness & motivation
Neurotransmitters
☺ Dopamine
☺ Serotonin
☺ Oxytocin
☺ Endorphins

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Emotional capital
Research shows that the key factors driving job
satisfaction are relationships with managers, Company
culture, advancement opportunities, and opportunities to
work with others.
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but
people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

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Happiness Works
N.A = Reward and recognition (releases
serotonin and dopamine)
VTA = (ventral tegmental area: group of
neurons) cognition, motivation and
addiction (process’s strong emotional
output)
Amygdala = Learning through emotional
response (positive and negative) –
creates links to the basil ganglia

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Laughology’s toolkit for
communication and thinking
ocus
anguage
magination
attern breaking

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focus on what you can influence

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Your humour toolkit
anguage

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Loaded Language
Non-emotive : The government will reduce interest rates
Emotive : The government will slash interest rates.
He is svelte
He is skinny
You are meticulous
You are nitpicking

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Your humour toolkit
Logic will get you from A to B but imagination will get you anywhere
Albert Einstein
magination

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Laughology’s toolkit
ocus
anguage
magination
attern breaking

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What is happiness?

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Engagement
Employee engagement is the emotional commitment the
employee has to the organisation and it’s goals.
This emotional commitment means engaged employees
actually care about their work and their company. The
don’t just work for the pay check, or the next promotion
but for the purpose, people and culture.

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Focus on the benefits
“Happiness in the workplace brings increased returns to
productivity, so human resource departments, business
managers and the architects of promotion policies want to
consider the implications.“
Professor Andrew Oswald – Economics and behavioural science, University of Warwickshire

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It starts with the leader
Flexible Empathy
Self
reliance
Relationship
skills Optimism
Self
awareness
Self
actualisation Humour

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70% of how employees perceive their organisation is
attributable to the behaviours of their leader.
A leader creates the environment that determines
people's moods at the office and their mood, in turn,
affects their productivity and level of engagement.
Goleman
Is your mood worth catching?

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Happiness wins and triggers
• Turn on your people before you turn on your computers
• Focus on small goals
• Collective ideas that include all and hear all
• Encourage ‘what’s right’ thinking rather than ‘what's wrong’ thinking
• Make contact to congratulate
• Awards of the week
• What’s on your environmental check list
• Notice and know everyone
• Make it simple to get the job done (quick fixes)

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Stephanie Davies
Stephanie@laughology.co.uk
General enquiries
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T: 0844 800 1701
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Our expertise
• Helping you form happy, engaged teams
• Coaching and consultancy based in behavioural science
• Emotional leadership development
• Creating happy and brilliant people managers
• Building strong resilient individuals, flexible for business evolution
• Developing talent and graduates
• And a whole lot more fun

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