Sunday May 27, 2012

By experiencing comedy routines, we hope they can learn more about how to speak to clients and how to manage their staff as they begin to have more management responsibility.

Atsuya Kawada, deputy director of the transport ministry’s personnel division. More than 100 transport ministry officials in their 20s have been getting tips from professional comedians as part of training in communication skills. (Reuters)

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    kinniku

    Funny, after long listening to politicians speaking, I have always been under the impression they took their cues from comedians.

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    hoserfella

    Japanese Comedy= Get one straight man. Get one shorter, fatter man with a bowl haircut. Get straight man to repeatedly bash the other over the head. Yes, I can see how this would work in the business world.

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    Altria

    Citizen: I'm here to complain about the money you're wasting on pointless roads.

    Transport Ministry Guy: (Strips down to speedo) Sonna no kankei neeee!!!

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    jonnyboy

    perhaps if dialogue wasn't so systematically stamped out in the school system, school leavers might be more able to communicate with others.

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