From the course: Using Humor In Training to Engage Your Audience
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Grabbing people's attention
From the course: Using Humor In Training to Engage Your Audience
Grabbing people's attention
- Has this ever happened to you? You're attending a training event. It's been a long day and you've started to check out a bit? Maybe you're looking at email or scrolling through social media or Candy Crush-ing it to level 6389? Then suddenly, the people around you laugh. So you look up and you see other people laughing. What's your first reaction? Is it, "ugh, laughter in a training? "How dare people enjoy themselves while I'm multitasking." No, you think, "wait, I want to have fun, too." And you actually start paying attention to the speaker. I once listened to a speaker give a presentation in a language I didn't understand just because he was making the audience laugh and I wanted to join in. That's the power of humor. The best way to grab people's attention is to engineer surprise through the use of incongruity. Incongruity is simply doing something a little different than expected. Something that makes people stop…
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