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  Michele Jackman has been assisting executives with change management processes and staff motivation for over 40 years. She has an extensive background in Environmental Protection, and was the Technical Advisor for the original Clean Up, Conservation, Control, and the Prevention of Pollution (C3P2) Program for the Department of Defense. She has worked for the National Forest Service, National Parks, Cal Trans Environmental, and for California State Parks on their Leaderships and Management programs. She has provided tailored facilitations and trainings to various governmental agencies through UCD Extension and through her own company since 1982. She taught Organizational Psychology at UCSB and has provided services to literally hundreds of government workers. | HRxpress, Human Resources Solutions
 
 

Rotarian introduced Michele Jackman, CEO/Marketing Director of usOWLs.com. She is a frequently sought-after speaker who specializes in improving the quality of life through advice on how to overcome uncomfortable and stressful situations. By visiting her website: mjackman.com/ one can learn of her book, Boosting Your SENSE of Humor and Banishing Negative Stress.

Michele’s talk was titled, “Getting Older, Wiser and Laughing
All the Way”. She spoke of the need to maintain a healthy
outlook on life through laughter, even in responses to awkward
situations by returning responses that frequently invoke
laughter.

An example she used was when a tour boat captain who had ordered pizza for his guests faced rough waters and his all his passengers were thrown into the water. His comment was, “I guess we will not be having pizza”.

Her observation is that one should always attempt to evoke laughter because that always makes things seem lighter. She recommends that humor can even be useful in the work place because that is where people are usually under stressful situations. Her comment is that, “Life is better when you are happy, but life is BEST when you make other people happy because of what you are doing.”

When making a mistake in a presentation, one can ask, “Can anyone think of other ways to do this incorrectly?” Even when speaking to your boss and you don’t agree with his/her
position, you can add, ‘If I agree with you, we might both be wrong.” | Rotary Club of Santa Barbara North
 
  Humor has its place on the job | Article in Gadsden Times
 
  Keep It Light Hear The One About People Who Inject Humor Into Their Workplace? | Article in Chicago Times

“Your presentation at our user conference last week was, in a word, outstanding. You put the group at ease from the very beginning, and they loved you for making them feel special and understood. It was so much fun to hear several audience members rehashing your points at the breaks - - always an excellent sign that the speaker has made her ideas memorable and useful. I don’t know how we could have navigated through the rest of our conference agenda . . . Your name will be will be on the tip of my tongue every time the subject of team building, motivation and quality management comes up around here.” 

~ President, QEI Design and Training Associates