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Humor Motivation for All The Right Reasons By Comedian and Corporate Trainer
Humor
Seminars to Enable Positivity and Productivity at Work and in Life
veryone
knows how good it feels to make someone laugh. Funny people are a pleasure to
work with and generally positive and proactive. Your employees can use humor
to improve their work AND home life. They will be eager to work and eager to
return.
Everyone
needs motivation.
In
this era of economic uncertainty, employees are concerned about their careers
due to pressures on and off the jobsite. Sales people are always on edge trying
to get that next big sale while attempting to get over that last bad call.
Workers are concerned about job performance and company downsizing. Employers
need dedicated workers and continued productivity. For
the past 26+ years, I have been a professional comedian appearing in thousands of
venues across the country. I perform at private, public, and corporate functions
as an entertainer providing a customized show for each event. Over the past 8
years, I have also been a corporate salesman for different computer companies in
the Los Angeles area. During
that time, I found that people I worked with began to have more fun while at
work. We all know that laughter helps us to relax and has been proven to relieve
stress, and, even pain. Because my fellow employees were becoming more relaxed
due to my influence, they found it easier to stay focused on the task at hand
and enjoy their work. Through
the experience of selling myself, as a comedian to hundreds of nightclubs and
agents, I learned the anguish of rejection and the pleasure of pursuing a
contact to get myself booked. Or, as they say in business, “closing the
sale.” I found that, over time, I had defined specific patterns for cold
calling and developing solid relationships with my contacts. Because of this
experience, I became a consistent closer working on new and bigger
opportunities. I developed a dedicated account base with clients that no longer
asked price, but rather, “how soon will it be here?” I shared this insight
with my closer co-workers and found that these techniques worked well for them
also.
After
noticing a marked increase in morale and productivity, my employer asked if I
could teach the sales people and other workers about my discoveries. As I had
already been teaching comedy classes at Los Angeles Adult Schools, mostly to
people that simply wanted to be funnier, I
felt that combining humor with sales techniques would enhance the experience.
The response was overwhelming. People approached to me daily thanking me for
helping them to appreciate the funny things in life and using the humor to feel
better and stay focused. Happy
People = Productive People Why HUMOR Training?When a
person makes someone else smile or laugh, they feel good because they have
brightened another’s life. This increases one’s self-esteem immeasurably These
seminars teach people to enjoy life by understanding why things are funny and
using humor to feel better, which will enhance their lives and the lives of
those around them. I show them how to stay happy, focused, and return to work
eager and excited. Seminar subjects can include: ·
Why is it funny? ·
How am I funny? ·
When is it NOT funny? ·
Working in harmony ·
Telephone techniques;
getting through to the client; listening and responding ·
Dealing with rejection ·
Getting started and keeping
the motor running smoothly · Staying focused and positive ·
Developing business
relationships and reading the client ·
Closing the sale ·
Repeat sales ·
Group Improvisation Seminar Descriptions:
Seminars can be combined, and run one to eight hours. Pricing varies depending upon attendees, location, and duration.
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