Humor And Creativity In The Workplace Essay

The workplace is not always an exciting place to be at. It can be hectic, loud, busy, and sometimes just plain nerve wrecking. Not to mention your there every day. It is only natural to have mental blocks or unable to come up with new ideas. Humor can boost creativity and a positive asset to any work environment. Employees form any level position in the workplace can use humor to be creative. Humor helps boost creativity in the workplace, but there is a time and place for it. One might ask what humor has to do with creativity. Creativity according to Gary A. Davis in “Creativity Is Forever” says that, “humor is the ability to take a fresh, childlike and playful approach to a problem” (p.390). By bringing humor to a situation it can help open ones mind to alternative ideas that one may not have thought of before. According to Webster dictionary, humor is defined as “funny, or a funny or amusing …show more content…
I thought how will I introduce humor in a group setting to present the idea of humor and creativity. I think, a great example was one that our class has already done at the start of this class. The example was when we had to draw the picture of two parrots on a branch. Now we all thought the idea was silly. Why was he making us draw this? It was after, when we colored pictures of the already drawn out parrots that we understood what was going on. With that being the case, while we were working on the project we were having fun we were worried about starting a new class. By having us do something that was fun we were able to come up with various drawing many of which did not resemble parrots. We were all critically thinking on what the birds were suppose to look like. Meanwhile, everyone came up with something different. Since this idea was already done I thought what could I do so that as a group we can have fun and could possibly use in the future in our profession. I thought lets do an ice breaker