“Even before the pandemic, it was clear we needed to reimagine how we engage. Humor was the answer.” Do you ever face tricky situations on the job communicating and collaborating with others? Whether you work for a small not-for-profit, big business, or anything in between, if you’re interested in teamwork and creative problem solving, then…
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Climate Centre Case Study: Using cartoons to communicate serious issues
On September 25th, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a massive 1170 page report delving into the alarming severity of global warming. More than 104 scientists from 36 countries worked together over the past 3 years looking at the disastrous impact of climate change on the Earth’s oceans and the ice formations. Sound amusing?…
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Cartoonathon Case Study: Atlantic Council Heatwave Coalition
Heatwaves are an increasingly common and deadly climate event. According to the WHO, from 1998-2017, over 166,000 people died due to heatwaves, 70,000 of those lost their lives due to a single heatwave in Europe in 2003.1 As the number of heatwaves and the related death toll continue to rise, it begs the question: why…
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Cartoonathons: How to Use Humor to Drive Insights
Lately, problems and risks feel unavoidable; yet, they must be faced, whether within your community or in your business. So how do you get people excited about discussing tough issues and encourage teams to lean into solving them versus becoming overwhelmed and disengaged? How do you build trust and inspire communication when everything feels fraught?…
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Case Study: Harnessing Humor to enable difficult conversations
Helping increase engagement with the World Bank’s “Government Accountability and Citizen Engagement” Session At CartoonStock, we talk a lot about how humor can be used in business to drive home your message, engage with customers, build relationships, entertain and earn attention. These same advantages can be applied well beyond the business world, as evidenced by…
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