HERO LAUGHER
Nelson Mandela embodies the essential elements of laughter yoga: health, joy and peace.
Meet Dr Madan Kataria
The
medical doctor from India who developed laughter yoga just 12 yrs ago.
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Corporate Laughter Programs
Laughing for no reason (natural laughter does not require comedy or jokes):
Workplace stress has doubled since 1985.
Laughter-As Exercise/laughter therapy provides a fun and effective way to upgrade staff performance and even corporate performance.
Harvard Business Review tells us that managers who incorporate fun and levity into their management style earn more and get promoted faster than their contemporaries.
They also have greater influence on group decisions, cope better under pressure and exhibit superior communication and empathy skills.
Salespeople who incorporate fun and laughter into their sales technique sell more.
Teams who incorporate fun and laughter are far more efficient, communicate better, work to a common purpose, and make better use of each individual’s strengths.
By reducing stress levels and teaching better ways to cope with stress, laughter can boost the efficacy of all members of a corporation.
LAUGHTER FOR CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, MEETINGS & EVENTS
Event organizers want participants that are
active, interested, energized, open to new ideas, and ready to make a
great contribution.
In reality, participants often arrive stressed, negative and exhausted.
They are removed from their comfort zone, feel their life has been
hijacked by the instruction to attend, have had to travel or rush to
complete other work to get there, and are generally stressed and out of
sorts.
The effects of this stress mean they will have little to contribute as
their cognitive abilities, empathy and communications skills, learning
ability, innovation and creativity are reduced.
Their negative emotional state means they will tend to shoot down new
ideas without consideration.
Starting your event with a laughter session positively transforms
participants.
More and more companies are starting their meetings, seminars,
conferences or events with laughter and reporting dynamically improved
participation and outcomes.
LAUGHTER PROGRAMS FOR HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
We offer a range of effective business HRD programs with laughter benefits tailored to meet your needs:
STRESSBUSTER:
45 or 60 minute to half-day program that quickly reduces stress levels and teaches new and better ways to cope with common stressors.
TEAMBUILDER:
45 or 60 minute to half-day program that quickly improves team dynamics: barriers to communication and group fragmentation are overcome, stress is reduced, the group is energized and driven to cooperate and to work to common purpose.
TURBOSALES:
Turbo-charge your sales team for better results. Put a smile in your voice and make your client feel happy for current and future orders. Maintain positive emotions and stay positive in the face of failure or rejection.
CROSS-CULTURAL TEAMBUILDER:
A program for teams made up of different cultures, even those who speak different languages. Improves communication and understanding, builds respect for different strengths, improves team spirit and loyalty and boosts team performance.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS:
This program is specially designed for easing the integration of different corporate cultures, developing loyalty and motivation, and building new effective teams from disparate members or groups.
WELLNESS & WELLNESS DAYS:
Our laughter wellness and wellness day programs are extremely well received with outstanding feedback and results.
EVENTS:
An excellent way to start special events. The Ice-breaker program makes all the difference.
INHOUSE TRAINING COURSES:
1 or 2 day laughter facilitator training courses are available.
Programs are customized according to client requirements and are conducted by a certified laughter professional.
UPGRADE YOUR BUSINESS: ADOPT FUN & LAUGHTER AS A CORE VALUE
The Levity Effect, a new book by bestseller author Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher, uses serious science to reveal the remarkable power of laughter and fun in business, and shows how many leading companies use levity to boost their bottom line.
Having fun while you work, or working at a company that values levity, helps to attract and retain the best employees, creates higher levels of employee engagement, sparks innovation and creativity, and contributes to overall success.
The authors show conclusively that laughter motivates employees and makes them more loyal - those who laugh at work stay longer, reducing high staff turnover costs.
THE BOTTOM LINE: laughter is good for business. US companies that
rate high on fun and laughter show annual returns 237% higher than
Standard &Poor 500 companies (14.16% return compared to 5.97% return for
S&P 500).
Our programs are designed
for companies that want to incorporate fun and laughter as a core value
and reap the rewards.
A scientific study shows substantial increases in capabilities measured for 8 self-competencies, 3 relational competencies, and role competency (The Journal of Primary Prevention 2007).
These dramatic improvements showed participants changing from ‘average’ to ‘star employees’ having developed new capabilities to successfully cope with change and work under stress.
Improvements in social-emotional
intelligence were retained after three months, indicating that changes
were permanent.
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Need Laughter?
Humans are designed to laugh. We need laughter to maintain our physical, mental & emotional health.
Find out why laughter is so important.
Join Us
We have started some laughter yoga clubs but South Africa needs many more.
Start a laughter yoga club, train as a laughter leader.
Laugh at Work?
Sounds crazy but the world's biggest corporations are discovering how laughter coaching in the workplace can boost their efficiency and profits.
Arrange an in-house seminar to find out more.
What is the LaughSA Task Force and why is this dream so important to us?
We have a vision for taking laughter to seniors, to schools, to hospitals, to orphanages and townships and slums and all those places that need upliftment and hope and joy. Find out more about the LaughSA Task Force and how you can help.
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