2023-11-21 16:30:00
When I learned on the Radio-Canada website that the CHUM was offering National School of Humor (ENH) training to executives from the establishment, I said to myself that it was a fish. April to November. So let’s see! As if the health system had the means to have a laugh in the middle of a crisis. As if health managers needed to learn to laugh! But where I really became disillusioned was when I saw the title of the training: “AT-CHUM: Because humor is contagious”. Atchum? Do you grab it? Misery, the CHUM paid $60,000 of your money for THAT? CEGEP-level humor? But who is kidding us here?
THERE’S NOTHING FUNNY!
We learned yesterday that “The office of the Minister of Health of Quebec, Christian Dubé, finds “very questionable” an expense incurred by the University of Montreal Hospital Center (CHUM).” Thomas Gerbet of Radio-Canada had revealed the day before that a $60,000 contract had been concluded with ENH for training entitled “Humor skills for managers”.
Listen to Sophie Durocher’s last interview on her show with Tristan Demers and Ghislain Taschereau via QUB radio :
The minister’s office wrote to Rad-Can by email: “All contracts awarded by establishments must be justified and must be done according to the rules and ensure that it is relevant. Is it suitable for humor training?
To find out if it was “relevant”, I went to the CHUM website, where you can find all the details of this training. I swear, this is no laughing matter. The training takes place in person, over three half-days of two and a half hours. Humor, we take it seriously. The training is given by Louise Richer (director of ENH) and Benoit Pelletier (humor writer).
JOEL LEMAY/AGENCE QMI
“Sense of humor skill. Target clientele: All CHUM managers. As part of the development of its managers and in connection with the new management skill “Sense of humor”, the CHUM, in collaboration with the ENH (National School of Humor), offers a development plan linked to humor and fun at work. This plan is made up of 3 levels: each level is a prerequisite to the next level. LEVEL 1 theme: Awakening and Empowerment / the individual. The three level 1 sessions focus on the individual and their relationship to humor and pleasure. This characterization will lead the participant to, possibly, position themselves as a facilitator in their group and in the organization. Obligation to attend all three sessions. Some objectives of this level: Define and frame the fundamental functions of humor. Identify your personal attitude towards humor at work. Distinguish the roles of transmitter VS receiver: intention, perception and effects. Integrate the 4 styles of humor: Identify your humorous style. Sharpen your critical judgment. Experiment with the strategies learned. Take responsibility for the act of humor.”
CONTAGIOUS HUMOR
Does it make you laugh to know that managers in our health system take seven and a half hours of their time to learn how to “identify their humorous style”? Are they more Martin Matte, Guy Nantel team or Rosalie Vaillancourt trend? Denys Arcand predicted all this in the Dark Ages. To stimulate its civil servants, the State offered them a motivational workshop… given by Humor Québec. It was Christian Bégin who played this role.
This type of humor makes me sick.
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