Help for Speakers: Tip of the Week 3: it's easier to incorporate humour, than it is to tell jokes.

Week 3 of Tip of the Week: Rather than tell jokes, use humour in your speech

Having an audience laugh relaxes us, and it relaxes the audience. Relaxation and laughter aid learning.

How do you make people laugh? It's much harder to tell a joke than it is to introduce humour into your speech (and almost every speech should include humour)

There are various ways to incorporate humour, but one of the easiest is by observing what is going on around you, being alive to the humour in every day life, and then sharing stories with your audiences (provided you then link the story back to the topic of your speech).

In case you missed them here are previous Tips of the Week.

Help for Speakers' Tip of the Week#2: Powerpoint is the last tool to use when writing a speech.
First you need to know what your audience cares about, why you like them, and what you want to share with them. Once you have a first draft/outline, it's time to think how your audience would benefit from an audio or visual cue. Then, and only then, it's time to open PowerPoint (or Apple's Keynote).

Help for Speakers Tip of the Week #1: Don't drink iced water, go for room temperature or luke-warm instead.
The vocal chords work best when nice and warm.

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