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Karen Susman's
Tools to Take You to the Next Level
Publisher: Karen Susman
Karen@KarenSusman.com
http://www.KarenSusman.com
©Karen Susman and Associates
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Next Level Tools©
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In This Issue
"What to do when you're schtickless:
How To Add Humor To Presentations."
With all the jokes on the Internet, the temptation is to foist gags
gathered in your e-mail box on your audience. Very few of us are comedians
or good joke tellers. Can you spell "painful?" You don't have
to be funny to add humor to your presentations. Try these nine ways
to make you and your message memorable.
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Give your audience permission to laugh. Tell them up front to enjoy themselves. Smile. Move toward them. Gesture. Of course, if you're delivering a eulogy, skip the permission to laugh part. Just tell endearing stories about the deceased and you'll get a welcome chuckle.
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Don't tell jokes unless they're perfect for the situation. Run jokes by peers to make sure they're funny, appropriate and support the point you're making. Then practice, practice, practice. Then delete it.
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Don't open a presentation with a joke. Use a humorous anecdote or true story about you that relates to your topic. Don't tell someone else's story or retell a story like it happened to you. Be original.
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Poke fun at yourself. It's safe and endearing. Collect and file anecdotes about your travel traumas and adventures, children, pets, cars, embarrassing moments, career path, mistakes, family or growing up.
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Keep a notebook or tape recorder handy to track funny observations. What makes something funny is your outrageous reaction to something mundane.
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Cartoons add life and make a point quickly. Watch copyright. Hire a cartoonist to create a cartoon that illustrates your point perfectly. This can be done quite reasonably. Check the Internet for sources.
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Let others be funny. React to humor. Don't step on others' laughter. Smile, do double takes, laugh out loud.
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Collect funny quotations, headlines and book titles.
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If you goof up during a presentation, poke fun at yourself and the situation. Give your audience permission to enjoy the mishap, too. Laughing at yourself reduces your stress and their stress about your stress.
Even if you have a serious presentation chock full of numbers, statistics, graphs and charts. Look for places to add humor. Candid Camera's Allen Funt said, "When people are smiling, they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them."
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See. Just 367 words that you can read and use quickly. Look for newsletters on just one topic such as presentation skills, humor, life balance, time, stress, networking or building community involvement. Or, find tips on several topics. Resources, too. Suggest topics by e-mailing Karen@KarenSusman.com.
Karen Susman's
Tools to Take You to the Next Level
Publisher: Karen Susman
Karen@KarenSusman.com.
http://www.KarenSusman.com
©Karen Susman and Associates
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Next Level Tools©
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You are receiving this because you signed up for it at http://www.KarenSusman.com, or you asked to be on the list.
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You can count on it.
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In This Issue
A Toolbox Sampler©
1. How to save time in ten minutes.
2. How to leverage your networking activities.
3. How to add interest to your written material.
4. How to balance your life.
5. How to get people involved.
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1. How to save time in ten minutes. Make a list of all the activities,
people, and inefficiencies that eat up your time. What items can you
eliminate from the list? What items can you simplify? What items can
you combine? Delegate the rest.
2. How to leverage your networking activities. Be a human search engine. You don't have to know it all. Just know where to find it all. Let your contacts know that you have the proclivity to find anything anytime anywhere.
3. How to add interest to your written material. Use wild metaphors and similies. Why say something is "big" when you can say something is "big enough to shade an elephant?" Why say that Joe was hungry when you can say that Joe was as "hungry as a prairie fire?"
4. How to balance your life. Make a list of simple pleasures. Simple pleasures cost less, take less time and often take no planning. If the only way you can spend time with your family is to take them to Disneyland, you'll only do this occasionally. If you get your family involved in a hot game of Chutes and Ladders, Bogle or Hide and Seek, you can have quality time every day of the week.
5. How to get people
involved. Simple. Find out what interests them. Ask them what their
personal, professional, hobby, leisure and family interests are. Then
match activities to their interests and they'll hop on the band wagon.
Save these toolbox samplers and pretty soon you'll have more helpful
tools than Home Depot. (Is that a metaphor or a similie?)
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Karen Susman and Associates
3352 S. Magnolia St.
Denver, CO 80224
1/888-678-8818 Toll Free
303/756-2687 Fax
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