Squeezing every drop out of life.
What a splendid idea!
Introducing Daryl Peebles PhD.
Daryl Peebles’ guiding philosophy is: If you think your life is a lemon, squeeze as much out of it as you can possibly manage!
'Squeezing' has helped Daryl Peebles enjoy several careers in his working life – and often these careers have existed concurrently. He worked professionally in media and communications and as a human resource manager for both the ABC and the Tasmanian State Government, and for 42 years as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve primarily responsible for the Navy’s public relations and community engagement activities in Tasmania.
In his ‘other life’, Daryl still enjoys a career in theatre and entertainment, as both a writer and performer – predominantly of comedy.
Daryl merged his professional and performing careers and commenced a PhD study within the University of Tasmania’s Tasmanian School of Business and Economics researching The Value of Positive Humour in the Workplace from which he graduated in 2015.
As part of his PhD research, Daryl surveyed small teams in over 50 Australian organisations including private, not-for-profit and public sector teams. This resulted in over 300 individuals participating in the survey. The study examined the relationship between the use of positive, affirming humour and psychological capital (PsyCap) attributes such as hope, optimism, confidence and resilience. A further step examined the correlations between PsyCap and positive humour, and work performance measures such as creativity, teamwork and discretionary effort; work attitude measures such as job satisfaction, staff turnover, organisational attachment and loyalty; and individual well-being indicators such as anxiety and depression.
Daryl now discusses his findings in an entertaining and informative presentation entitled The Humour Factor. His key message suggests that people should take their jobs seriously but take themselves lightly. He also acknowledges that our lives are impacted by events that ‘bring us down’ but suggests that the appropriate use of humour may help us find our way back to a state of joy.
And for managers? Daryl encourages managers to allow and nurture appropriate, uplifting humour within their workplace to reap the rewards of a happier, healthier and more productive work team.
His entertaining public speaking engagements now focus on his study. Daz has a message for everyone concerned about employee well-being and organisational productivity. For more information, follow the link on the button immediately below. This will also take you to an article written by Daryl and published in The Mercury on Saturday 2 August 2014.
'Squeezing' has helped Daryl Peebles enjoy several careers in his working life – and often these careers have existed concurrently. He worked professionally in media and communications and as a human resource manager for both the ABC and the Tasmanian State Government, and for 42 years as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve primarily responsible for the Navy’s public relations and community engagement activities in Tasmania.
In his ‘other life’, Daryl still enjoys a career in theatre and entertainment, as both a writer and performer – predominantly of comedy.
Daryl merged his professional and performing careers and commenced a PhD study within the University of Tasmania’s Tasmanian School of Business and Economics researching The Value of Positive Humour in the Workplace from which he graduated in 2015.
As part of his PhD research, Daryl surveyed small teams in over 50 Australian organisations including private, not-for-profit and public sector teams. This resulted in over 300 individuals participating in the survey. The study examined the relationship between the use of positive, affirming humour and psychological capital (PsyCap) attributes such as hope, optimism, confidence and resilience. A further step examined the correlations between PsyCap and positive humour, and work performance measures such as creativity, teamwork and discretionary effort; work attitude measures such as job satisfaction, staff turnover, organisational attachment and loyalty; and individual well-being indicators such as anxiety and depression.
Daryl now discusses his findings in an entertaining and informative presentation entitled The Humour Factor. His key message suggests that people should take their jobs seriously but take themselves lightly. He also acknowledges that our lives are impacted by events that ‘bring us down’ but suggests that the appropriate use of humour may help us find our way back to a state of joy.
And for managers? Daryl encourages managers to allow and nurture appropriate, uplifting humour within their workplace to reap the rewards of a happier, healthier and more productive work team.
His entertaining public speaking engagements now focus on his study. Daz has a message for everyone concerned about employee well-being and organisational productivity. For more information, follow the link on the button immediately below. This will also take you to an article written by Daryl and published in The Mercury on Saturday 2 August 2014.
