Impactful Presence: THE HUMOUR COURSE
THE HUMOUR COURSE
A way to be MUCH more effective in the workplace.
Humour: put into a good mood
Outline
This course especially designed for executives and speakers to incorporate humour to improve performance in management and consequently be more effective. You will develop personal humour in communication, learn when to use humour, how and bring levity to the workplace through story telling and improv. Laughter transcends problems and is a proven communicator. Given the opportunity, everyone prefers to be in the presence of laughter. This is an opportunity to open up and develop more of your own natural humour writing, speaking or in team leadership. You will learn communication tools in a light and jovial way, allowing tension to ease and difficulty to disappear. This course is designed for individuals or a group who want to transform and develop the focus of how they present or communicate and have a great deal of enjoyment at the same time.
Objectives
The focus in this course is on how to create relief from stress by expanding on your own authentic, compelling, unique and articulate humor and life experience. Whatever the event – meeting, sales pitch, off-site conference, annual general meeting– this will help you in your communication and in humanizing the workplace. You will learn effectively how to transform your audience and business relationships and make a real impact when you interact and when you speak.
In laughter we transcend our predicaments. If you would love to be more spontaneous and comfortable in business, consider how a humorous speaker is an effective speaker. No senior business executive today can afford to be without excellent communication skills. You will:
Be able to relax when you speak
Use humour to be exceedingly effective as a speaker
Learn how to enhance business relationships
Connect to your audience much more strongly
Feel comfortable with an audience and help them forget the speaker is speaking from a script or has a corporate agenda
Use humour to leave your message with an audience after your meeting is over
Be able to stay in the moment without losing audience contact.
Skills
Using our own life experiences, improvisation methods with hands on participation and techniques, and exercises successfully employed by leaders speakers, comics, successful speakers and script-writers, we will create and develop situations which can easily be used in the business place, and parlayed into successful situations on a permanent basis. These will help to:
Discover how to keep people listening and tuned in
Discover how to keep the business atmosphere uplifting and creative
Find and maximize your presentation and communication ability
Relieve stress
Develop many more enjoyable work situations
Eliminate persistent obstacles
Create real and lasting value in business situations
Create a win-win situation for all involved
Develop a sense of timing
Develop a sense of when it’s appropriate to use humour
Transcend a predicament
Develop valuable improvisation and humour skills
Develop story telling skills which humanize work situations
Develop light hearted and significant audience rapport
Develop a deep increase in communication skills
Learn to enjoy speaking and presenting and interacting
Learn how to recognize a joke
Have fun!
This course can also be used:
to defuse situations
as a wonderful diversionary tactic
to add great interactive potential to team management and meetings
to help soften any blow
to create positive encounters
Used by:
Corporations
Managers
Lawyers
Public sector professionals
Health professionals
HR professionals
Coaches
Trainers
Team leaders
Please note:
People think of themselves as different in business than they are with friends. Some may anticipate themselves closing down, suffering embarrassment during this course in front of their peers. The course can be one on one or for a small group. Sometimes people can overcompensate in the business environment and perhaps speak inappropriately, in an effort to be funny. This is also dealt with during the course. Whatever the environment, we create a depressurized situation so it is in no way intimidating.
The Trainer
Deb Filler is an international performer. Her skills have taken her to her own off Broadway stage in New York and off West End in London, garnered her a Helen Hayes nomination for outstanding actress and resulted in a highly successful career performing her warm brand of humour in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Israel, Germany and New Zealand.
Press on Deb Filler:
Times Literary Supplement
“Deb Filler is a hilariously funny woman, part Ruby Wax mixed with Tracy Ullman and a sprinkling of Nigella Lawson…Deb Filler’s warm personality shines through and it was a pleasure to be in her company for one and a half hours”.
‘What’s On’ (London)
“A knock-down success…life affirming…richly poignant…embodies internationalism at its most appealing…delicious!”
The Scotsman
…mixing storytelling with song, Filler’s warm, riotous personality and talent simply overflows…
Camden Journal
“Is there no end to her talent?
The Baltimore Sun
“Filler brings so much humor and understanding… a life-affirming philosophy that warms the heart…”
For more training information, please call Deb Filler
at 416-535-4556 or e-mail us at debfiller@sympatico.ca