Tim Gard - Programs

Comic Vision Keynote and Seminar Highlights:

• Harness how to use humor as a skill.
• Discover how to use laughter and good humor to prevent or cope with stress.
• Learn to distinguish between good and bad humor and how to avoid bad humor with Tim's Good Humor T.I.I.P.
• Explore the physical and emotional benefits of laughter.
• Learn how to identify and defuse situational stress at work.
• Learn four steps to harnessing laughter.

Developing a Comic Vision -- Keynote Presentation

This fast paced, laughter-filled presentation is Tim's most popular program. Tim uses his favorite props and funniest stories to teach the audience how and why they should choose to harness laughter to avoid stress. Discover ideas for desk toys and stress busters at work and get a chance to play in Tim's famous nose flute band. Tim will reveal four steps to overcoming stress through laughter and participants will also learn ways to balance unavoidable stress, and how to use humor as a skill.

Laughter Becomes You -- Workshop Presentation

Builds on the foundation provided in "Developing a Comic Vision." This seminar includes more Comic Vision stress busters, teaches how to distinguish between good and bad humor, details the physical and emotional benefits of laughter, and enables you to use good humor at work. Harness laughter to overcome individual situational stress factors by finding the humor in change, developing and implementing a humor plan at work, and much more!

Juggling Stress: Laughter Works --
Team Development...90 minutes to full-day

Do you recognize the need for team development, but don't want just another "warm fuzzy" session? Then this is the workshop for you. Juggling is a proven team building exercise. Customized for your group of up to 50, this session will drive home the point that working together can be both fun and productive, teach your line staff or executives how to laugh and learn from mistakes, and give you ways to take work seriously but yourself lightly. There's much more to it, but most importantly, the group grows closer as they laugh and learn together.

Secrets of Choosing and Using Props

In this full or half-day workshop, Tim will re-awaken your fancy for fun and contagiously innocent mischief, while you enjoy looking at the challenges of life through Tim's eyes.

Tim Gard's use of extraordinary props in ordinary situations, and ordinary props in extraordinary situations, make him one of the most popular and original humorists on the platform today. His props are fun and funny, but most importantly, they serve as visual reminders to "act” not "react” to life's inconveniences.

Leadership...Tao of Humor
Although almost everyone agrees what a positive impact humor can have at work, when misused, it can have an equally negative effect. In this laughter-filled workshop, discover how Tim's humor plan can give you the guidelines crucial to harnessing humor as a practical skill. You'll gain insight on: humor and today's fast-paced, diverse workplace; how "funny" does not always equal appropriate; and much more. You'll also learn how to steer clear of the negative humor that may become a source of problems and complaints. Excellent as a workshop, general session, in association with EEO classes, or combined with any other Comic Visions event.