Humor: A Powerful Communication Tool? By JoJo Tabares In the olde days of kings who ruled with absolute power, only the court jester could safely tell the King the truth, mediated through humor. Anyone else who attempted to tell the Emperor he had no clothes was in danger of losing his head! Humor is a valuable and effective tool for communicating just about anything because humor breaks down barriers. Carefully disguised as fun, humor can smuggle new ideas into people's hearts. Humor has been shown to be an essential component of learning for young and old alike! In order to teach, you must have your audience’s attention. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear...
Since tomorrow's Grace Talk Soup podcast is about humor and we do a segment that is a parody of I Love Lucy (I Love Language) I thought I'd post this clip from one of the Lucy shows where Lucy tries to communicate with her mother in law.
It can be pretty funny to communicate when you don't speak the same language. I know because my MIL is from Mexico! She does understand English fairly well and I understand Spanish a bit but neither of us speaks the other's language. This makes for some pretty funny miscommunication and we play a little charades as well!
Grace Talk Soup is our weekly podcast where my co host and I share tips and techniques for more effective communication in various situations life brings us. Carla and I a serving up God's Word with side order of Grace and Humor each Thursday morning at 8am PST/11am EST. Our live show has some great fun as the audience participates in much of the show! Grace Talk Soup also receives HUNDREDS of downloads of our past archived shows a month! Just in the last few months we have talked about subjects such as Defending the Faith, 21 Days to More Godly Communication, Cultural Differences in Communication and How to Talk to Someone Who is Grieving! And the feedback has been...
Monday Q of the Wk. Here’s how it works: Each Monday I ask a thought provoking question about life. Pose the same question to your blog readers on your own blog along with your answer to the question. Then come back here and post a comment with a link to your blog post so we can all read everyone’s answers! It’s been a lot of fun getting to know my readers and their readers and so on and so on… This week’s question: Do you know an unsung hero? JoJo’s Answer: The other day I posted about the deaths of two big pop stars. One of my readers and my dear friend, Carla Ives, said that while she was upset...
Yesterday I posted about the 911 call that told of Michael Jackson's death. Many have asked me to comment on his life, but I really didn't know enough about him to do that. I do believe he was a troubled man and I know he didn't know the Lord as his Savior. I did wonder at the differences surrounding the death of both of those pop stars on Thursday. Farrah Fawcett had a very strong Christian faith (at least at the end of her life.) and I do believe it helped to keep her grounded and I am sure it was a comfort to her as she was going through the struggle known as cancer. Michael Jackson was not a...
