EPISODE SUMMARY
In today's show we explore how to use lightheartedness and how being lighthearted can increase your effectiveness, communication, engagement, trust and even your pay. Managers who lead with fun and levity benefit from employee engagement and overall success and the research shows that playfulness can elevate your status and lower your stress. Too good to be true? Decide yourself!
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Link to Show Notes: https://lightheartedleadership.com/2021/06/16/episode-3-how-the-lighthearted-way-pays/
LIGHTHEARTED LEADERSHIP RESOURCE LIST
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the bottom line, https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/257094
The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten up, https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2008-04109-000
Why Funny Leaders are Better Leaders, https://www.inc.com/leigh-buchanan/everyone-loves-a-funny-leader.html
Being cheerful leads to higher income, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1019672513984
Humor at work: A study about the relationship between humor styles, satisfaction with management and individual job performance, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1b78/4e44772f1593e8a1e4b99031b3441704530d.pdf
Lighthearted email signoffs https://www.criminallyprolific.com/email-signoffs/
Everybody loves a funny leader, https://www.inc.com/leigh-buchanan/everyone-loves-a-funny-leader.html
