Using Humor to Enhance Your Leadership Skills

This is a recording of a session from ARN's 2024 conference. This recording is about 1 hour in length. You will need to watch the recording, then complete an evaluation to receive your certificate and complete this course. You will have access to this course for 1 year, starting on the purchase date.

Humor has been related to a number of positive effects when used by leaders:
* an increased ability to cope with work stressors
* better work relationships
* a happier, more connected, supportive, and productive workforce
* and an increased sense of belonging, which improves morale and enhances group cohesiveness.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify ways humor can be used by leaders to cope with the stress of multiple priorities.
  • Describe and practice humor techniques leaders can utilize for team building and communication.
  • Recognize and distinguish the differences between appropriate and inappropriate leadership humor. 
  • Describe the best ways to address inappropriate humor in the workplace.
Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 CNE
    ANCC The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Publication date: 
06/17/2025
Purchase deadline: 
06/17/2028
Member cost:
$23.95
Non-member cost:
$35.95
Cost:
$35.95
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David Jacobson, MSW, LCSW, CHP is the owner of Humor Horizons, his professional speaking/ consulting business, and was one of Banner University Medical Center’s “Top 10” leaders as their Director of Behavioral Health Case Management. Other former positions included: Executive National Director of Marketing, Federal Chief of Service for the VA. As Manager of Social Work at UMC, Jacobson worked with patients and families of traumas including the tragic shooting event in Tucson that occurred in January 2011 for which he was personally thanked by President Obama for his assistance. David suffered many losses early in his life including the death of his father when he was 8, a diagnosis with a severe form of arthritis at 22 and the loss of a quarter from a hole in his pants pocket at age 23. Through his years of struggling with chronic pain and these other losses (He's still not quite over the quarter thing), he developed humor techniques that got him through the hard times. He is the author of several books on therapeutic humor. David has been featured internationally by various multimedia news formats, but usually on uneventful slow news days.

 

None of the planners or presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Notice of requirements to receive contact hours: 1.0 Nursing Contact Hours will be awarded for individuals who participate in the full activity and complete the post-evaluation for the activity. The ability to view or accept credit for this product expires on 06/17/2028. 

The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 CNE
    ANCC The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Price

Member cost:
$23.95
Non-member cost:
$35.95
Cost:
$35.95
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