Benable — create shareable lists of things you recommend!
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Places to Find Workplace Humor That Won't Land You In Trouble with HR
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items Sometimes we're afraid of creating workplace humor/fun because we're worried we'll slip over the line and make coworkers or teams uncomfortable or even be plain ol' inappropriate. Not every idea here will work (or again, be appropriate) for every wor...
Does your work environment generate lots of annoyances beyond your team's control? You can create BINGO game of these annoyances and offer a prize for the staff member who gets annoyance BINGO first. You can get up to 30 BINGO cards generated free he... Why have I capitalized BINGO here every time? To make it more EXCITING! But really, annoyance BINGO is worth a try.
Custom bingo card generator-make your own workplace specific bingo game
If you work as a victim advocate L & O SVU might make you tear your hair out (like nurses watching ER or Grey's Anatomy) BUT I've included this here because it might be the only time you'll see your job presented with laughs...appropriately. Ther...
Law And Order SVU: Hilarious Bloopers (with a huge caveat)
This is a fun (if limited) activity from the New Yorker. You can drag elements onto a typical New Yorker cartoon panel, then add your own caption. Could be a great icebreaker to start a virtual meeting!
New Yorker- Make Your Own Cartoon
No joke, even though the icebreaker Two Truths And A Lie has been around since the dinosaurs roamed the earth, attending boring office meetings, it's still a great way to laugh and really get to know participants a bit better. Best for teams/situatio...
Two Truths and a Lie Icebreaker: 100 Examples & How to Play
Maryville University created this list of fun activities for their student group coordinators, and they have generously shared them with us, the entire internet. Some might have to be slightly adapted for your non college based workplace, but it's an...
Ice Breakers & Team Builders- a simple printable list
Maybe we don't all want to play charades (although it's got to be better than building a tower with marshmallows and spaghetti right?) but this site is useful not just for generating charades ideas. You can also choose from a number of categories and...
Charade (and other ideas) generator
This charade idea generator is made for kids, but might be useful for teams with a wide age span that might not be as familiar with different eras of pop culture, or if you'd just like your charade game to be a little less impossible.
Charades Ideas Generator for Kids-or grownups who want less impossible ideas
You know this classic and probably have done it a million times (especially if you working during the touchy feely era of the 90s), which makes it perfect for folks who are feeling resistant to being silly or feeling vulnerable with workplace icebrea...
How to Build a Spaghetti Tower (with Pictures) -
One of the very best laugh generators on the internet is something I call OPD, Other People's Drama. In this case, adorkable and passionate creator getting very intense in a discussion of which musical theater villian is worst. Hint: It's not real vi...
Who is the BEST VILLAIN in Musical Theatre? | March Madness Bracket
I do love Judy Carter (although please don't hire her for your keynote instead of me-she's way more expensive!) and her formulas for making humor from nothing and everything. This exercise is not for beginners or teams that are unfamiliar with each o...
“COMEDY FORMULAS THAT WORK” - Judy Carter
I have a confession to make. I still use old fashioned emojis made with punctuation marks. Now I guess that's become almost vintage. Anyway, the entire rest of the population who like and use emojis, this emoji guessing business can be a fun workplac...
Printable Emoji Quiz With Answers
The “C” in my CLIFFTOP inserting humor into workplace life is “celebrate” and even if you don't have any actual victories to celebrate (remember, even a smile can be a victory) use this daily calendar to make other potential suggestions. When I wrote...
National Day Calendar--There's always something to celebrate
These cartoons are a little corny and skew towards a bit of an old fashioned workplace, but if you print them out and cut off the provided caption, your team can enjoy creating their own! Remember to provide guidelines for the caption eg no referenci...
The ResourcefulManager Cartoons Collection--write your own caption
This is another “hey here's what holiday you can celebrate” calendar, but it has a larger breadth of ideas-- a recent day included both Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Day AND Buy A Priest a Beer Day. Which I really hope are unrelated. But if you ca...
Checkiday.com--a much cuter celebration calendar