The Power of Humor
The Power of Humor
Testimonials
Testimonials
Why Humor is an invaluable asset for every Business
Why Humor is an invaluable asset for every Business
Wall Street Journal "The ROI of Humor"
The Power of Humor at Work
Colleagues who make others laugh are seen as more self-confident, competent and higher in status, according to a series of experiments by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Harvard Business School.”
Wall Street Journal
Humor lowers defenses, making your audience more receptive to your message. It also makes you seem more likable, and people are more willing to do business with or support someone they like.
Carmine Gallo. Author
The 9 Public-Speaking
Secrets of the World’s Top Minds
The reason why many advertising and marketing experts suggest you do use humor is because it’s fundamental to forming positive relationships. We buy from people we like, and humor is the easiest and fastest way to get there.
Magda Kay
When you laugh with someone, you both feel you’re on the same side. It’s a fantastic tool for building a connection. Indeed, for many great speakers humor has become a superweapon.
Chris Anderson, TED, CEO
The point isn’t to say something funny.
The point is to remove the tension in the room.
This makes it easier for people to talk with each other.
Dick Costolo, Former CEO of Twitter
Nothing positions people for persuasion as well as a sense of humor.
Roger Dawson
Most presentations are glorified snooze-fests. Start with a laugh. A quick laugh lets them know they're in the hands of a good presenter, or at least a likable person. Once you've secured that trust, they'll be more open to what you say next.
David Nihill, Presentation Expert
A sense of humor is viewed as an outward expression
of inner competencies.
The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten Up
Adrian Gostick
Laughter short circuits the natural human instinct to judge.
Patrick Schwerdtfeger
I know as a presenter until I make you laugh you will still be deciding whether or not you like me.
Robert Bostick, HumorPoint Founder
In a competitive sales situation, all things being equal, likability will be the tiebreaker. That's where demonstrating a nice likable sense of humor can make all the difference...and the sale.
Robert Bostick
"Humor Increases Persuasion's Effectiveness."
Marshal Chiles
"Smile!"
Dog Training Class Picture
A sure way to warm up a room, or a screen, is a photo of dogs.
Robert Bostick
More adorable, cute, dog photos Here
Laughter is still your best medicine.
International Pharmaceutical Association
Laughter is a powerful connection tool. Part of the evolutionary purpose of laughter is to create social bonding. Humor is a great way to become memorable, stand out from the crowd, and leave a positive impression as a likable and fun person.
The first emotion you want a potential customer
to have is to feel good about you.
Robert Bostick
We all love a good laugh. Honestly, show me a living person who doesn’t love to laugh and I’ll show you a walking corpse. Humour is an incredibly relatable way to connect with people. It’s an eruption of happiness—everyone’s favorite emotion. So how do we make people remember us? We make them laugh.
Bryan Loewen
If you have any desire to be a professional speaker, you’ll make a lot more money if you can make people laugh.
Sharing humor is not about demonstrating how funny you are as much as it is about letting people know that you have a sense of humor.
Robert Bostick
No presentation strategy delivers a higher return on time invested than smart, well-delivered humor.
Robert Bostick
In social media, the unofficial mantra is 'be useful or be amusing,
in that order.'
Andrew Hanelly
Laughter is your best medicine is exceptionally high praise.
I think you can trust the medical professionals on this.
Robert Bostick
“You don't stop laughing because you grow old.
You grow old because you stop laughing.”
Michael Pritchard
A sense of humor Is the secret sauce of a better life.
Robert Bostick
Let's face it.
If there was ever a time we needed humor
it's now.
Robert Bostick
The most remarkable thing about sharing great humor is the speed
at which it alters people's feelings about you for the better in
seconds.
Robert Bostick
When you start to laugh, your barriers come down. When you let the walls down--the protective obstacles that we keep all around us--without even realizing it, we become receptive to information, or a way of thinking that we haven't had before.
Morgan Spurlock
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman
Making people feel good is what gets and keeps people’s attention. That’s why the Oscars always have a comedian as the host and the winner of every Super Bowl are the funniest commercials.
Robert Bostick
As human beings, our reptilian brains are quick to judge others negatively. Funny enough, when someone shares some great
humor with us we're quick to judge them positively.
Apparently reptilian brains enjoy a good laugh too.
Robert Bostick
My view is that if you can pull a humor rabbit out of the hat and surprise and delight your audience it pays for itself immediately.
The most fun rabbits are funny cartoons, funny images,
funny quotes, and funny videos.
Robert Bostick
The power of humor isn’t just in building bonds or sparking creativity or increasing status or even improving resilience and mental well-being. It’s about finding a balance between gravity and levity and giving power to both.
Jennifer Aaker
Author of Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life
McKinsey & Company "Why We Need More Humor at Work."
Business executives and political leaders have embraced humor because humor works. Humor has gone from being an admirable part of a leader’s character to a mandatory one.
Former Director of White House Speech Writing
Bob Orben
Laughter opens up an immediate pathway to the heart. It brings people together. This makes it eminently useful in presentations
...and Leadership.
Robert Bostick
Effective teachers, leaders, and business presenters know the first order of business is always the same - get the people in the room
to smile and relax with you.
Robert Bostick
Humor will help you relax by giving you what Peggy Noonan describes as "the quick victory of laughter."
Keith Davis
Once you hear that “laughter,” you know they’re with you.
John Hale
You only have to demonstrate intelligent wit one time
for people to never forget that you possess it.
Robert Bostick
One thing is just the ROI on humor. Leaders with a sense of humor are 27 percent more motivating and inspiring, their employees are 15 percent more engaged, and their teams are twice as creative.
Jennifer Aaker
Author of Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life
McKinsey & Company "Why We Need More Humor at Work."
Humor is a Trojan horse for our humanity.
Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas
Author of Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...'
Isaac Asimov
Well deployed humor does more for a presentation’s success than all the thought-leading ideas in the world.
Robert Bostick
Great humor, like a great outfit,
lets you dress up your presentation to look sharp.
Robert Bostick
Humor in public speaking is like the salt, spices, and herbs in cooking. The proper seasoning can change a tasteless dish into a gourmet’s delight. Humor can turn a dull speech into a resounding success.
Winston K. Pendleton
I would say that probably the biggest thing that holds people back is, 'If I do this, I'm going to look like an idiot if it doesn't work out.'
Scott Adams-Dilbert Creator
That is the saving grace of humor,
if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
Fear takes us out of our hearts. Laughter brings us back in.
Robert Bostick
Does a professional speaker have to include humor in his talk? No. Only if he wants to get paid.
Cavett Robert, Founder, National Speakers Association
Companies try to make their Super Bowl ads as funny as possible because the funnier they are the more people talk about them and share them online. I say, why not do what the big boys do?
Robert Bostick
The shortest distance between two people is laughter.
Victor Borge
At the end of laughter is the height of listening.
Jeffrey Gitomer
"Laughter" increases the endorphins that are released by your brain.
The Mayo Clinic
The goal of any skilled speaker is simple - make your audience
feel as good as you can as fast as you can for as long as you can.
Robert Bostick
People buy on emotion and the most popular emotion is feeling good.
Robert Bostick
Any justification your mind conjures up for not using humor
is laughable.
Robert Bostick
Start off with some fun, smart humor. People need to laugh within the first thirty seconds or else you're going back to your cubicle at the pencil factory and they will never remember you. Starting off with humor is what starts off the good feelings for the rest of your talk.
James Altichur
If you know how to make people laugh,
you'll have an advantage in any professional situation.
Robert Bostick
Nobody likes being marketed to, but by taking the funny approach, your message won’t just get received by your target audience, it may actually be welcomed.
Unknown
Comedy is a concealed weapon.
Jay Leno, Comedian
It's funny because it's true.
Sarah Cooper, Comedian
As a professional speaker, I truly believe I could double or triple my business if I was funnier - and you should think about your own instincts with humor and how you can use them to your advantage.
Patrick Schwerdtfeger
More Yucks, More Bucks. No Funny, No Money.
Professional Speaking Proverb
A sense of humor is the ability to see the absurdity of life everywhere you look...especially at yourself.
Robert Bostick
Laughter need not be cut out of anything since it improves everything.
James Thurber
The biggest skills gap in the United States is soft skills. It is how we communicate and get along. That is what matters.
Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn Executive Chairman
The most productive result of a meeting is laughter.
Robert Bostick
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
G.K. Chesterton
A sense of humor is a beloved
and coveted communication skill.
It speaks volumes about you.
All positive.
Robert Bostick
We’re here for a good time not a long time.
That’s where humor comes in.
Robert Bostick
Funny Images
If they're laughing, they're buying.
Jeffrey Gitomer
Levity is a funny thing at work.
If they're busting a gut, they'll bust their butts.
The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten Up
Nothing builds rapport faster than humor.
Never forget that humor’s ability to poison a presentation is exceeded only by its capacity to lift it to another level.
Many years ago the late Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks. His answer was, “That’s where the money is.” Why humor? Because that’s where the influence, the appeal, the control, the good feeling--and eventually, the money is.
Robert Orben
Laughter is therapeutic. We turn to comedians the way we turn to doctors—for healing, for relief, for reassurance that everything will be OK in the end. When we laugh, we are reminded that life, for all of its heartbreak and pain, is still worth living.
Matthew Hennessey
Perhaps of all the communication strategies that leaders
utilize, the use of humor is most promising,
but least understood.
C. B. Crawford
You don’t have to be a professional comedian to use humor successfully. In fact, as a business person, you have a tremendous advantage: No one expects you to be funny. If you can’t tell a joke, you can still slip a light remark into a speech or conversation. Even if it’s not that funny, it will communicate the fact that you have a sense of humor. Remember, your goal isn’t to be hilarious, it’s to communicate your sense of humor.
Malcolm l. Kushner
Keep your humor “on target” by making sure it relates to the content of your program. That way, it enhances instead of detracting. On-target humor provides pegs for retention, illustrates key points, and generates genuine enthusiasm in an audience. Don’t ask, “Is it funny?” Ask, “Does it work in getting my point across and increasing commitment to my message.
Terry Paulson PhD
It feels significant that most five-year-olds are far less boring than most 45-year-olds. It’s because they make us laugh just by being themselves.
Robert Bostick
Audience laughter is like a dog wagging its tail.
Robert Bostick
At the end of laughter is the height of listening.
At the end of a spreadsheet analysis...not so much.
Robert Bostick
I’m struck by how laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter.
John Cleese
A sense of humor is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey
Humorists also have a built-in tendency to see and enjoy the incongruities, ironies, absurdities, and ridiculous aspects of real life. They thrive on the oddities of things that happen.
Paul E. McGhee, How to Develop Your Sense of Humor
These are the people who give humor a good name. They’re perceived as warm, down-to-earth and kind, good at reducing the tension in uncomfortable situations and able to laugh at their own faults.”
Louise Dobson
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
John Cleese
Humor is the welcome mat between a speaker and his audience. A short joke, a quick laugh, breaks the ice between you and that sea of strangers. When they laugh they’re immediately on your side.
The laughter makes them your friend. It's the most powerful
ammunition you can carry. “Powerful” is the right word for the
word for the ammunition that humor gives you. I’ve seen a clever gag or story accomplish more than all the ranting
and raving in the world could.
Bob Hope
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis
How is Humor Useful?
The most important part is it enables us to get along with other people, to cope with difficulties, to diffuse tensions, and just simply to make life, in general, more enjoyable. And by having a sense of humor it means we have a perspective on the commonplace
everyday absurdity of it all.
Robert Makoff
New Yorker Cartoon Editor
Sharing humor in a presentation is a means to an end. The end is people find you likable, intelligent and someone they enjoy listening to and working with. Maybe even leadership material. Today the means to that end is available to everyone. It’s called HumorPoint.
Robert Bostick
Humor is a multi-billion-dollar industry, saturated with actors, stand-up comedians, humor authors, cartoon artists, filmmakers, comedy writers, late-night TV hosts and more. A “sense of humor” is something we actively seek in a partner, and in our closest friends. Our favorite people, characters, and memories are often the ones that make us laugh. Why is humor so lucrative, loved, and sought after? The answer is because humor makes us feel good.
Isabella Steele
I’ve written other social skills books, but I consider
humor to be the most advanced and most
life-changing topic. There’s a reason it’s so
highly coveted: humor is power. Humor helps
build connections and relationships in ways that
few other social interactions can. It makes all
participants feel good (laughing naturally
releases dopamine). It brings people
together in shared positive experiences
that are memorable and lasting.
Gregory Peart
Humor is such an important Leadership Trait we teach it at
Stanford’s Business School by Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas Fast Company
Funny Presentations: They’re the Ones You Remember
How to Use Humor in Your Presentation
by Malcolm Kushner - Humor for Dummies
The New Management Superpower Is Humor. Seriously?
10 Reasons Why Humor Is A Key To Success At Work
"Do you want to hear something funny?"
The Right and Wrong Way to Use Humor in the Workplace
Did you hear the joke about the CEO?
by Peter McGraw, Washington Post
12 Ways to Hook an Audience in 30 Seconds
by Bruna Martinuzzi, American Express
Want to Get a Promotion? Be Funny
Bell Leadership Study Finds Humor Gives Leaders the Edge
by Dr. Gerald D. Bell, Bell Leadership
Sales Isn’t A Laughing Matter. But Maybe It Should Be?
by Lou Carlozo, YesWare
40 Ways to Add Humor to Your Talk or Presentation
Why Humor in the Workplace is a Key to Success, by Michael Kerr
How to Tell a Joke by Kendall Payne
How to Make a Presentation More Humorous (With 7 Top Tips from Experts) Sharon Hurley Hall, Envato
Using Humour in a Presentation – It’s No Laughing Matter
by John Zimmer, Presentation Guru
How I Got a Reply from Adam Grant in 2 Days, by Making Him Smile
5 Reasons to Use Humor in a Job Interview
by Andrew Tarvin, Humor That Works
A ‘Fail-Safe’ Humor Strategy for Leaders
Using humor in the college classroom: The pros and the cons.
“His Sense of Humor Carried the Day”: Using Humor With Nontraditional Adult Learners by Charity Anderson, PhD
The Humor Effect: The Benefits of Humor and How to Use it Effectively. by Effectiviology
