How to be funny with looking, sounding, or feeling foolish! With John Cantu
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You don’t have to be Robin Williams to be funny. And you don’t have to copy jokes from a joke book to get a laugh and bond with your audience. You can learn to be funny — if you attend this seminar by telephone with one of America’s most widely respected business humorist.
Humor is important because it…
- arouses audience interest so you don’t lose them.
- disarms hostility and makes them at least listen to your viewpoint and allows you to get your point across without increasing hostility.
- helps you connect with the audience and build rapport so they listen and absorb your material easier.
- helps you generate higher fees sooner than others with same material.
- helps emphasize points of wisdom and especially helps audience members retain important but dry facts and figures.
- makes a positive impression in addition to your knowledge of the subject.
- makes learners in ongoing training less likely to skip sessions since humor reduces boredom.
- shows that you don’t take yourself too seriously thus makes you more likeable and helps you get higher evaluations or more sales.
In this one-hour seminar, you’ll learn how to:
- discover your natural humor so you can adapt humor to your presentation that is authentic for you.
- use appropriate humor when speaking to Fortune 500 audiences.
- find humor on the Internet that you can use without fear of copyright infringement or violating NSA’s ethics rules.
- add humor to any subject and yet not be perceived as making fun of the topic.
- four ways to get fresh, funny ready made material on an ongoing basis at no charge.
- Special Bonus #1: Can’t remember a joke? – Hate to use jokes? You’ll a learn a dozen different ways to add humor to your presentation that don’t involve a single joke, or one liner.
- Special Bonus #2: Learn how to use timing effectively. Ever notice how virtually every professional comedian, humorist, and humor coach emphasizes the importance of timing but none ever define it, demonstrate it, or teach it? Cantu does.
John Cantu was the keynote speaker at the Ragan’s Speechwriters 2002 Conference workshop for speech writers and is slated to present at additional PR conferences for Ragan.
A former comedy club owner, he has worked with performers such as Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Margaret Cho, Will Durst, Rob Schneider, and Jerry Seinfeld.
Cantu will share the techniques he had discovered from years of working with these and other comedic stars. He has adapted these techniques for business executives and professional speakers who simply want to add some humor to avoid being dull and to avoid bombing.
Cantu has since given presentations to organizations such as Deloitte & Touche, San Francisco Comedy College, San Francisco State College, San Francisco University, Project Management Association and the University of California – Hayward.
Cantu’s coaching clients have included Malcolm Kushner (author of “Public Speaking for Dummies”), Mike Iapoce, (author of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom,” Stu Silverstein M.D. (Speaker on medical topics), Mark Smith (Co-Author “Guerrilla Trade Show Selling,” & “Guerrilla Teleselling”) and Orvel Ray Wilson (Coauthor “Guerrilla Selling”).