Creator of New Zealand's Humour in Business Awards
NEW....Book Release "Humour Works"
Professional Speaker, Author, Coach and Facilitator Positive Psychology and Humour in the Workplace
Vice Chair Sales and Marketing Institute New Zealand
Member Professional Speakers NZ
Member International Humour Foundation Member Australian Centre on Quality of life ( Laughingly referred to as The Joyologist ) New Zealands leader in the science of Humour and Laughter in the workplace .
Pat says :- " You can't lift your bottom line if your people are down " and is showing business leaders how to boost individual and team productivity by working in the area of optimism and creating positive states.
NEW... Book Release ....!and end of year special program !
Humour Works
John Bishop – business speaker and commentator said of this book - “Pat commits the cardinal management sin of spreading joy and making people smile. If her practices become widely adopted, going to work will become fun, and people will enjoy the experience. Ultimately she is a dangerous subversive to dullness, mediocrity and boredom. Why can’t we have more like her?”
This book demonstrates how to combine business acumen, creativity and wit to provide moments to educate, delight and entertain.This is serious fun and demonstrates the ease with which it can be combined with workplace strategy to boost individual productivity and contribute to business success.Pat has added papers that explain why every business needs its own Humour Resource Department and how Joyology works.
The book is available for $30 plus P@H of $5 Overseas postage $7
Profile An International Award Winning Business owner , Pat has over 30 years experience in Business Communications, Leadership and Advertising Roles. She was winner of the "Spirit of Excellence Award - 2002 Speaker of the year NZ" and most awarded speaker 2000 (NSANZ) , She has presented over 11,000 hours of keynotes, workshops, lectures and seminars reaching an astounding 55,000 people throughout Australasia. The acknowledged expert has appeared on National Television and Radio programs and been featured in newspapers and magazines throughout Australasia . She has a regular humour in business column, called Humour Works, in the Auckland Business to Business newspaper and has featured in many publications including the HR Magazine Employment Today, North and South, Intouch and Woman Today
As New Zealand’s leader in the Science of Positive Psychology and Humour in the Workplace Pat has a CV that’s not to be laughed at!Included in her giggliography are some ground breaking achievements, testimony to her obvious ability to successfully combine her business acumen, creativity, and wit.
Initially a Registered Nurse she worked for 16 years in Education and Management roles and was part of the group of nurses in NSW that took nurse education out of hospital based training and into Universities.
In 1989 she founded her own Advertising Agency, Take One Productions and won many awards including the NSW Tourism Award, Media Section and an award from Cacharel in Paris.
With a personal vision of inspiring others to live into their life purpose and direction with humour and joy, she has presented over 300 humour based programs in the last 3 years.Vivacious and empathic, she gets more smileage out of her encounters by turning lemons into lemonade and aims to do the same for her clients.
The first “honours graduate’ from her own Humour-versity, the Department of Humour Resources, she is not fazed by the World Health Organisation statistics that predict depression will be world health burden number 2 by 2020.She says we can transform global pessimism to optimism through the development of high trust environments where people perform to optimum having fun doing what it is that they love. She counters that on the contrary, she will found an Intimcay Revolution by 2020 which will herald a new level of communication, personal satisfaction and productivity.
Her clientsin NZ include Kensington Swan, Royal Australasian College of Paediatricians, Baldwins,Coca Cola Amatil, Child Heart Foundation, Bayleys Real Estate, Fertility NZ, Martin Personnel, Fairfax Ltd, Epiphany, National OSH Society, Arthritis Foundation,Mercy Hospice, Carich NZ, University of Auckland, IAL, andLupus Trust.
A feature of Pat's presentations is her use of bold artistic interpretation like the monarch shown here, which was used to close a keynote speech at the Women In Business conference. you can see more of her art on the Arts Forum website www.artsforum.org,nz
Pat was 2002 National Speakers Association NZ Speaker of the Year and the most awarded speaker at the 2000 NSANZ Convention. More recently she was one of two finalists and runner up in the Sales and Marketing Institute NZ Annual Awards in the Entrepreneur section. She is now a Director on that same board.
She has toured internationally with Dr Patch Adams and is working to produce a documentary on his healing with humour tour through Russia in 2007. Hunter "Patch" Adams has been a physician for nearly 30 years, but he has been a clown for almost 40. He is a social activist, and Founder and Director of the Gesundheit Institute, a holistic medical community that has provided free medical care to thousands of patients since it began in 1971. Patch travels the world presenting at a staggering amount of places every year, as well as fulfilling his altruistic activities. For more info see www.patchadams.org
Pat is one of 100 successful NZ business women featured in a book written by Amanda Ellis and June McCabe . The book , titled Woman 2 Woman, features business greats such as Georgina Beyer, Jude Dobson, Fiona Powell, Lisa Er, Wendy Pye and Therese Gattung. Her section demonstrates the power of a mentoring relationship and the benefits she gained from having ex Saatchi and Saatchi MD, Mike Hutcheson as a mentor during the early growth stage of her business. ( pictured below with Pat )
Mike was also MC at the Inaugural Humour in Business Awards ceremony held at the Academy Cinema in Auckland on May 1st 2006. New Zealand’s inaugural “Humour in Business Awards 2007” The annual Humour in Business Awardsin New Zealand aim to recognize the contribution humour makes to the lives of staff and customers.The Awards will highlight this vision. Pat organises them, with Business to Business newspaper as major sponsor. People are invited to contribute by sharing stories of business success where humour has helped create new business, improve bottom line, fulfill contracts, overcome hurdles, and perhaps helped to create new opportunities and/or ways to compete better in the New Zealand or global market.
Speaking engagements next few months Microsoft Business expo -Auckland showgrounds - May 12th 2006 Auckland University - Stress humour and health - May 13th and 14th 2006 NZ Property Institute - June 16th Christchurch Circus Schmirkus - Waiheke Island - June 13th Public program - Christchurch June 17th NZ Property Institute - June 23rd Auckland EA/PAExecutive Development conference - Waiheke June 28th NRID Conference - 19th and 20th July NZ Property Institute - Napier July 21st NZ Property Institute - Nelson July 28th NZ Property Institute - Dunedin August 4th Sales and Marketing Institute - August 15th Sparks Studio - Panacea Arts -September 4th Get a life - Pushing the boundaries - September 13th Women in Technology - September 20th Theosophical Society - October 8th BPW - October 25th Find your Joy - October 25th Australian and New Zealand Humour, Health and Education Conference on the theme of Laughter, Wellness and Engagement: Connecting the Comedy Dots 27-29 October 2006 Sales and Marketing Institute Annual Conference November 2006 SWAP, South Auckland November 15th 2006 NZATD Comedy Club %th December 2006 NZIM Graduation December 14th 2006 SEO Association 21st December 2006
2007 programs SMINZ Summer School 16-18th January Good Grief programs February 11, 18, 25 April 15, 22, 29 June 10, 17,21 August 5, 12, 19 October 7,14, 21 Book launch Palaver March 29th National Education Centre 18th -21st Admin Professionals July 6th to 8th Mental Health Nurses July 18 -21 SMINZ October 10,11
Programs
Leadership “Laugh as you lead – how to combine business savvy and wit to motivate your team”
The founding principle in the leadership model is that happiness is a by product of achievement and people will be more productive when in that happy state. Pride, happiness and feeling good are part of that process. Any problem that affects your employees will affect your account. From the intimate knowledge of self comes the ability to know others. Change management, innovation and getting the most out of people are noted in the Hudson report to be the principle requirements for people in leadership roles today.
Learn the core principles of what it means to lead with good humour through :-
• Identifying and utilizing their own individual humour skills • Types of humour and their application in leadership roles • Identifying and utilizing their own signature strengths • Trust building strategies based on authenticity, spirit and meaning, and personal growth • A new view of vision, values and purpose as a source of energy and flow • Effective relationship management through nurturing, engaging and recognising • Implementing a virtues based communication strategy • Strategies to develop a high nurturance organisation
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*** Creativity and team building Workshops
“Jack in the Box Thinking” Our reality is governed by the rise and fall of optimistic and pessimistic thoughts and behaviour. The genius that we call evolution has provided us with the circadian cycle, which creates a flexible tension and allows us to venture forward and retreat. In this perpetual fluctuation is the space where human beings accomplish so much. This program teaches individuals to work with and balance their counsels of doom and counsels of daring, as Dr Martin Seligman puts it in his book Learned Optimism,
Explores the use of optimism and the fine arts/performing arts principles to develop :-
• Being in the moment and more responsive • Improve decision making • Innovate and develop new ideas • Enhance problem solving • Create new working environments • Enhance effective communication • Enable team work and support group dynamics
Includes its application in the creation of communications tools and ideas in :- • Sales and Marketing • Advertising • Customer relations
Training and Development Program
“Laugh as you learn” Workshop that provides humour tools that help to make learning more memorable.
Designed for people in HR or learning and development roles
The program covers:-
• Improvisation principles to develop humour and wit • Humour as a tool to manifest ideas • The rules of humour in comedy • Fosters creative expression through music, art, writing and song • Explores the art of storytelling • Explores the art of clowning • Explores the use of props and creating low budget high impact backdrops
Good Grief Program
”The art of Grieving – Using good humour to manage the stress produced by loss and grief”
Suitable for anybody who has suffered a loss, be it personal or material, and leaders of teams working in high stress environments. You will be able to deal effectively with your own grief and that of others and apply that to your work environment and current stress laws. The program covers:-
• Elizabeth Kubler Ross grieving model • Appropriate laughter and humour in times of loss • Managing stress and depression with humour techniques • Journaling as an effective means of self expression • Ceremony and ritual as tools to produce calm and to heal • Creative expression as a tool for effective communication
Feedback from workshops “ …we were certainly impressed by her strong, dynamic and personable approach.I was particularly impressed with Pats ability to respond appropriately and promptly to our training needs and the professional way in which she did this.Our initial discussion was open and honestand Pat was extremely responsive to our needs as an organization.Her follow up after the training was also well beyond what we might usually expect” Justine Wylie, CARICH, NZ, HR Manager, Re :- Project Management Workshop
“Thankyou for presenting “Effective Working Relationships” a 10 day series of workshops to our multimedia students.Feedback from all who attended was exceptional with all achieving not only the NZQA associated unit standard but new and innovative ways of working effectively with other people on projects.Students enjoyed your high energy and creativity, especially your use of a multitude of media to hold attention and aid learning.Your Laurel and Hardy impersonations and the lessons from the past on the final day are still being talked about, and your gifts, novelties and daily quotes all have added high memorability.We will be very pleased to access your services again” Multi-Media Department Manager , National College of Multimedia and Technology Re :- Effective Working Relationships Workshop
:It was wonderful to have your input which from some of the comments has encouraged people to look at life from a different perspective and the energy to lift their horizons to a higher level. Others thought your message on happiness and intimacy was perfect, as you reminded us all of our humanity, in that we're all the same and all have our own fears and insecurities, and so do our clients, thus helping us on the rapport we have with each other. Many thanks too for the material you've emailed, which is being shared with the people you spoke to and others. I'm only half way through it as each one generates new thoughts we want to think about. I've heard from a number of people interested in the website questionaire you sent and I see the link is still being passed around to include people who weren't invited to hear you, so our challenge now is to integrate your legacy to our ongoing program".- Re Engaging with Intimacy - Laurie Finlayson, National HR Director Kensington Swan Humourous Keynotes over the last 12 months have included :-
A lesson in going for the Jocular not the Jugular! Demonstrates how to use humour to ease you through 'tetchy" moments
Laughter is the best medicine Demonstrates the use of laughter as a very effective stress management tool
You wont die laughing Demonstrates the relationship between humour, a balanced life and longevity
Laugh as you learn Workshop that provides humour tools that help to make learning more memorable
There’s not much fun in medicine but there is a lot of medicine in fun Uniquely positioned to support health professionals manage the stresses in their work environment
Fall in laugh and you fall in love A humorous presentation that examines the things that attract women to men
Testosterone, Port and other Hormones for busy men A spoof on stress management for men in the corporate arena
Amusing Antics and Antizac - the alternativeto Prozac ! Examines how improvisation, being in the moment , making yourself vulnerable, making peoples day,and choosing your mood can impact on your general well being and help you find the funny side of life in encounters I Flirt ..therefore I sell Flirtateousnessis of course good for you !It is non sexist, .non discriminatingand non fattening.And all you need to do is become the bearer of good news.Greet people with energy.Listen well.Develop the skill to conduct fast, scintillating conversations.Become renowned for giving sincere flattery.Practice becoming amusing, and being good to be with.Develop spontaneity. Improvisation truly is an art and can be learned.
Samples of some 2000 unsolicited pieces of participant feedback “Pat is NZ’s answer to Patch Adams” Dr Ric Coleman NZ “Pat has the ability to combine business acumen and wit to achieve results” Peter Kellond Auckland New Ventures "Your efforts are so important”…Dr Patch Adams USA “It was great to just be in your company.You have wonderful energy.” Catherine Palin-Brinkworth, Professional Presenter “Your presentation captivated the audience for 45 minutes for which you must be proud .I loved the way you were able to take your real life encounters and philosophies and relate them to events that have influenced my life making me realize we all suffer and struggle at times but persistence and perseverance pay off.” Scott Reynolds AUT Breakfast Club “You were just great.Your face says so much when you speak.That’swhy YOU are the star!” Genevieve Westcott, Westcott Communications “I think your content is spot on.People want to be acknowledged.” Lisa Cork The Marketing Department “I could have used you as an example on how to differentiate yourself from other speakers.” Peter Sewell, Member NSANZ “ It wasn’t long enough and would have been fabulous to finish on” H Manigham “Inspired and excited..can’t wait to get to work…..’ Ann Maclean, Prebyterian support “ Bring it on !Fun is essential”, Ellen Murphy and Cecilia Roper, Redwood Lodge
Yours in good humour! NEW LOCATION You can contact the Joyologist at The Department of Humour Resources The Anchorage, 34 Hobbs Rd, Gulf Harbour Whangaporoao New Zealand
you can see more of her art on the Arts Forum website www.artsforum.org,nz
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