Discover the secrets to turning your next big speaking gig into a valuable experience for both you and your audience. Overcome the fears of being put on the ‘SHELF’ and learn a methodology for success.
Workplace humour is an important key to outstanding leadership. As business leaders and managers, using humour in the workplace can build trust, strengthen employee engagement, unleash more creativity in the team, and build a more resilient company culture.
As a comedian and high-performance humour coach, I often get asked the question
“How can I be funnier?”
So in this article, I’m going to share with you one quick tip on how to do precisely that.
In Leadership, humour done wrong can damage our credibility, distract from our message and make it hard for people to take us seriously.
So what do we do instead?
Humour, when used right, can strengthen your message and engage your market. But it can also go the wrong way.
In business, there is a particular type of humour that could damage your credibility or, worse… the reputation of your whole company!
Do you want to be funny and use humour to engage your clients better? But are you worried people won’t take you seriously?
You’re right to worry.
One question that often comes up when it comes to speaking is “How do I increase my fees?”. You may be wanting to get to the next price level, or maybe you are done speaking for “exposure” and it’s now time to start getting paid!
In business, humour done wrong can damage our credibility, distract from our message and make it hard for people to take us seriously.
So what do we do instead?
One of my favourite things about 2020 was that COVID showed us what can happen when we collaborate.
So, you may have heard that I used to be part of a show called the Three Stuffed Mums. The premise of the show was that I was “physically stuffed”, because I had a toddler, Maggie was “mentally stuffed” because she had a teenager and Kehau was an empty nester, and she was telling everyone to “get stuffed!”
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