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What is the role of humor in professional project management?

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Enrique Cavalitto Retired| Retired La Plata Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Does humor play a role in professional project management? Do you remember situations where humor helped, for instance, to bond a team or to solve a conflict?
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Jose Roberto Cavalcante Alves PROJECT MANAGER| GEPLANUS studios Brazil
Apr 08, 2018 2:19 PM
Replying to Rami Kaibni
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Introducing the element of humor is good but it is importsnt to have the right sense of humor otherwise things might go out of control and blow out of proportions.
You need to know the time to make a joke. Regards.
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1 reply by Rami Kaibni
Oct 15, 2018 10:52 AM
Rami Kaibni
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Very True.
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Luis Assad Advisor| Barueri City Administration Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil
Some of you might already know it, but there's a webinar here in ProjectManagement.com by Peter Taylor, "The Project Manager Who Smiled". It´s a bit old (from 2013), but I think it still shows some good examples of the use of humor in project management.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Oct 15, 2018 6:00 AM
Replying to Jose Roberto Cavalcante Alves
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You need to know the time to make a joke. Regards.
Very True.
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Larry Miner Founder and Sr. Project Management of Decision Memory Systems| Decision Memory Systems Bath, Oh, United States
I think we need to laugh at ourselves, we just spent 3 pages seriously discussing humor!
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Rosanna Gumapac Senior Project Manager| Quest Diagnostics Exton, Pa, United States
I routinely use JibJab to sent hilarious videos to the team to break out the mundane project status reporting. I usually put it at the end of a particularly long status report to see which folks read the report from beginning to end... :)
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Pench Batta Enterprise Lean Agile DevOps Coach /SAFe Program Consultant (SPC6)| Capgemini, Inc. Bentonville, Ar, United States
Humor is absolutely needed!
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