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Title: Your Presentation Is a Joke

Subtitle: Using Humor to Maximize Your Impact

Author: Marshall Chiles

Narrator: Marshall Chiles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-18-16

Publisher: Humor Wins

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

"Humor increases persuasion's effectiveness." (Dr. Jim Lyttle)

I am comedian/author/dudeman Marshall Chiles, and I will show you step-by-step proven methodologies to help add humor to your presentations in order to increase your persuasion and maximize your impact.

"I used your recommendations and absolutely crushed my sales presentation at the conference. Was told I was a stand-out speaker and was really able to get the crowd engaged with some humor. You the man!" (Ryan Hughes, 360 Rick Partners)

If you want to stand out and make people pay more attention, then I submit humor is the way to do it. In this book you will learn proven techniques, from adding funny images to finding the funny in (almost) any subject to writing self-deprecating jokes and more. No matter your profession, your experience (or lack thereof), or the content you're working with, Your Presentation Is a Joke can help.

So whether you're a seasoned public speaker or are scared stiff about a looming presentation, take the time to learn how to use humor to in order to increase persuasion's effectiveness.

Members Reviews:

Useful book for people who want to add humor to their business presentation

Unlike books about about being a comedian, "Your Presentation is a Joke" is specially written to the business audience. While a stand-up comedy how-to book might help you prepare for appearing on a basement comedy club stage, it could get you fired from your job if you used the same routine at a corporate seminar. Inappropriate comments in a corporate environment include anything to do with sex, religion, and politics, and also any comments that rag on someone else. Hopefully your mother taught you to be respectful, but since too many mothers neglected to teach that lesson, Marshall Chiles takes a chapter to break down the details of how to act in public.

Telling a joke not only requires timing, explains Chiles, but the placement of a joke in a speech also has critical impact. After you tell a joke, the audience is excited to hear what you will say next. That's a great time to hit them with your main point or call to action, since that's when they are most suceptible.

Chiles provides useful resources, like a website that can help you identify the source of an image that you find on the web. Go to [...] and enter the URL of an image, and it will return not only where else you can find the image, but where you can find the highest quality one, too. On his own site, too, [...], Chiles provides useful material as well.

He teaches techniques that can be easily applied, and since they are formulaic, anyone can do them. For example, he suggests choosing a topic, writing a list of true sentences about it, and then writing a list of specific words related to the topic. You will use these words as the punch word (last word in the sentence) when you make the punchlines. Then choose an emotion, so for example, if your subject is "traffic," you might choose the emotion "hate" (i.e., Traffic makes me angry; Traffic makes me competitive; Traffic reports never mention the road I am on while I am on it.) Next, reverse the emotion and adjust the sentence, and you're done: I love traffic because it brings out my competitive side; I like to hear about the traffic on other people's commutes; I love starting off my day frustrated.