Stand-up comedy team: Barb and Steve
Program Titles
- A positive team building & skill enhancing experience for your staff
- Learn how to put the you in funny!
- Providing tools that support resolution through communication
- Conflict management, mediation & dealing with difficult behaviors.
- Mediation as a transformative & empowering process
- Move through obstructions & jumpstart the transformative process
- Conflict resolution: Collaborative Practitioner
- Give your employees hands on tools to avoid, de-escalate & resolve conflict while they laugh
Barb and Steve North provides comedy development just right for your group, on the use of humor in management, marketing and sales for corporate meetings.
Entertaining and informative, the North’s programs help professionals, amateurs and just dabblers learn the art of comedy, learn to loosen up or just to have fun.
If it’s comedy / humor, or just a positive team building and skill enhancing experience for your staff, then the Norths have the answer.
Not only is humor compatible with business, but according to studies, laughter and fun contribute to higher ambition, initiative, low turnover, increased sales and loyalty among customers and employees.
Herb Kelleher, President, Chairman, and CEO of Southwest Airlines said “ Who says a lighthearted approach to business is incompatible with success?”
Using humor in the work place reduces stress and builds a healthier, more productive team.
Humor breaks tension, builds rapport and a sense of camaraderie, getting a better response from those to whom you sell or for whom you provide services.
Humor can help diffuse aggression, overcome adversity, aid in a positive approach to challenges, and keep an office environment upbeat and focused.
Barb and Steve North have conducted groundbreaking programs and given entertaining skill-based keynotes on the use of humor in management, marketing and sales for corporate meetings for many years to consistently rave reviews.
Hundreds of happy clients, from stars to beginners — have exploded in standup comedy by learning Barb & Steve’s comedic character method for Standup, Acting, Writing Speaking, or just being funnier.
Barb and Steve North have performed all over the world as a comedy team; produced or performed on over 30 National TV shows.
The North’s have taken many budding comedians from hopefuls to full blown comedy careers.
“Graduates” of Barb & Steve’s classes have been on scores of TV shows, including Letterman, Leno, Kimmel, sitcoms; winners of festivals, and are headliners at clubs across the world.
Rather than learning to be a comic – someone who says funny things or tells jokes, you will quickly learn to be a comedian – someone who is a funny person, with a chance for sitcoms and films. Or just become a funnier person in real life!
Using humor in the work place reduces stress and builds a healthier, more productive team.
Humor breaks tension, builds rapport and a sense of camaraderie, getting a better response from those to whom you sell or for whom you provide services.
Humor can help diffuse aggression, overcome adversity, aid in a positive approach to challenges, and keep an office environment upbeat and focused.
If the emphasis is placed on the process, resolutions usually emerge if they exist. Barb North creates a relaxed and safe environment to assist the parties in communication, exploring their options, identifying issues and staying on track.
While she is well versed in directive and evaluative strategies she uses them sparingly and only when needed to move through obstructions and jumpstart the transformative process.
Book Steve and Barb North for your Event!