Irwin Barker's Seminars & Coaching

Seminars and Coaching on Humour Delivery by Irwin Barker
         Irwin provides seminars and coaching services for business professionals and presenters wanting to maximize the use of humour in their presentations.

The advantages of humour in a presentation are clear. Humour:

• keeps the listeners listening

• reduces stress and puts the audience in a more receptive mode

• creates a more appreciative audience. It leaves them wanting more.

• serves as a mnemonic device. Using a joke to illustrate a point creates a connection . Listeners remember the joke and remember the point the joke was designed to make.

• enhances creativity by stimulating right brain thinking.

• helps to create a sense of solidarity. It bring the audience together.

          At the same time, humour is a two-edged sword. The wrong joke can alienate the audience or lead them astray from the central point. It becomes critical to know how humour works, and how it can work best for you.
Humour Seminars:
        The three hour seminar on humour is designed to help business professionals and presenters better understand how to lighten up their presentations with humour.

          In the seminar, participants will learn how to use humour effectively in presentations. Topics covered include:

 Humour at Work
        A critical part of workplace and presentation humour involves understanding the rules for good humour, appropriate to a professional milieu. Here we discuss the difference between insight humour and victim humour and how to maintain sensitivity, respectfulness and wholesomeness in the choice of jokes.

 Landing the Punch
       The seminar identifies the mechanics of humour and the elements essential in properly delivering a joke. (timing, surprise, presentation and conviction)

 The Creative Power of Humour
       A critical part of using humour is understanding the relationship between laughter and learning, humour and creative thinking.

 Harnessing the Power of Humour

        Making humour into an effective tool to solve problems, discover new ideas, resolve conflict and enhance teamwork.
Coaching Services:
       In addition to humour seminars, Irwin provides personal coaching to business professionals and presenters. The coaching service is designed to assist presenters in making the fullest use of humour to enhance their presentations.

Coaching services include:

• Reviewing your presentation material for humour potential

• How to identify, present and deliver humorous material in your presentation

• How to make your presentation memorable by creating a solid link between a punch line and a message.

• Helping you identify and refine your style of humour.

• How to use humour to keep the audience on your side.

• How to harness humour’s creative potential to make life and work more rewarding.