5 Tips for Using Humor to Engage Your Audience

It’s no secret that laughter can be the best medicine. It relaxes your muscles; boosts the immune system and improves resistance to disease; lowers stress hormones; eases anxiety; increases blood flow; and promotes relationship building and bonding. Harnessing the beneficial boost of a belly laugh also can help you connect with your clients, customers and colleagues.

Keeping Your PR Romance Alive: A How-To Guide

Maybe you’re a public relations practitioner who has been in the field for decades and your daily routine now feels monotonous. Perhaps you are a student who initially was thrilled to major in public relations, but now you feel drained by upper-level communications courses. Regardless of where you are in your PR career, take the time to let yourself fall in love with public relations all over again and keep the romance alive.

The Resolution Solution, or How to Climb Mt. Everest

Even though January 1 is behind us, resolution season is still in full swing, and that means that many of us are still vigilantly on the path to better ourselves in 2014. According to usa.gov, some of the most popular resolutions are to lose weight, to get out of debt and to stop drinking or smoking. If you have committed to these or other more personal resolutions, there is a master resolution you can make that will increase your productivity and give you the focus you need to reach all of your other goals.