Become Better and Funnier at Public Speaking
What you'll learn
- Identify and understand stand-up techniques that work in public speaking contexts
- Know how to replicate the techniques being used by top TED speakers to get laughs and increase engagement
- Know how to craft and tell an engaging ( and funny!) story
- Start and end presentations using stand-up techniques.
- Learn effective memory techniques that will make sure you don't go blank on stage
- Know how to craft a memorable story around your product/service
- Learn how to hold an audience's interest
- Know best techniques for overcoming fear of public speaking
- Stand out from the crowd by making people laugh
- Develop a file of tried and tested jokes/stories to insert into presentations
- Learn how to deal with the audience in a presentation or talk.
- Learn how to systematically write funny and effective jokes
- Know to recover from a joke falling flat
Requirements
- A good sense of humor
Description
Learn 7 Comedy Habits to be better at public speaking, consistently funnier and help rid the world of boring presentations!
This courses teachings, as referenced in Inc, Forbes, Fast Company, Lifehacker and featured by Prezi as one of the 5 best online training courses for presenters, outlines easy to apply steps from the world of standup comedy to improve your presentation and public speaking skills, using one of the most powerful tools available to us: Laughter.
What students are saying about it:
"This course was engaging, entertaining and filled with great speaking tips. I loved it! Thank you! It was like reading a great book, I couldn't turn it off."
"The course is awesome! Hands down the best collection and presentation of resources I have found on public speaking (not normally the most exciting topic, but here it most certainly is!). Highly recommended."
“This course is great. I haven’t taken it yet but David drew a picture when he was 6 years old of a penguin drinking beer in a Chinese restaurant and it was clear the potential for slight wisdom and misguided creativity were there.” —Marita Nihill, David’s Mother
Top business speakers are using humor.
They are developing laugh lines using the same process as comedians.
You don't need to be a natural comedian to get laughs.
We de-construct the process from standup comedy into 7 Habits and show you how to translate them into public speaking skills for the world of business. These 7 Comedic Habits are aimed at helping you deliver a more memorable, entertaining and engaging presentation, every time.
Whether you are a seasoned presenter or someone with a real fear of public speaking (like me!) these easy to apply steps will help you stand out from the crowd. These techniques are being applied by numerous TED talks, start-ups, entrepreneurs, keynotes, interviewees and professional speakers to further engage their audiences and we take you through how to do the same.
There are step by step assignments following each section that will help you develop your comedic writing styles and delivery methods. This is further supplemented with engaging viewing material from a number of TED talks and business presenters on the covered areas. This includes an impromptu performance by Robin Williams and video of my own jokes at some of California's top comedy clubs highlighting the techniques covered in the course.
Most presentations are really boring. With application of these habits yours will not be!
These techniques will your make presentations more engaging and entertaining by:
- Teaching you stand-up techniques that work in public speaking contexts.
- Teaching you how to replicate the techniques being used by top TED speakers.
- Showing you how to craft your key message into a memorable and humorous story.
- Showing you to extract the funny and build it into joke structures through comedy writing techniques
- Preparing you to test these jokes and stories on live audiences
- Showing you techniques used by comedians to overcome stage fright and improve your delivery
- Instructing you on how to open and close strong, make a great and funny first impression while getting laughs every time
- Teaching you how to evaluate performances and identify which comedic elements should be added to your presentations
- Teaching you how to manage an audience and hold their interest
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to improve their public speaking slills
- Professionals who want to make their presentations more entertaining
- Marketing and Advertising professionals looking to add humor to their messaging
- Start-Up companies who want to stand out from the crowd
- Entrepreneurs looking to get a competitive advantage
- Sales professionals looking to hone their humor skills
- Anyone who wants to be consistently funnier
- Those who want to overcome a fear of public speaking
- Those interested in stand up comedy
- Those who want to fastrack the often lenghty learning process involved in Standup Comedy
- Those who want to learn a new skill
- Students looking to stand out from their peers through comedy
- Anyone regularly making presentations
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Course content
1 lecture • 3minIntroduction 1
- Preview02:57
3 lectures • 10minWelcome Overview
4 lectures • 11minComedy Habit #1: Start with Story
5 lectures • 12minComedy Habit #2: Add Humor - Finding the Funny
14 lectures • 29minComedy Habit #3: Write Funny
7 lectures • 19minExtra Easy Laughs with Images and Compare and Contrast
14 lectures • 43minComedy Habit # 4: Delivery
12 lectures • 19minComedy Habit #5: Rehearsed Spontaneity
3 lectures • 6minComedy Habit #6: Control the Audience
5 lectures • 14minComedy Habit #7: Close the Book, But Not Fully
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
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- 15,151 Students
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David is the author of the best-selling book Do You Talk Funny? and the Founder of FunnyBizz, a community, writer platform, and conference series, where business meets humor to abolish boring content. His work has been featured in Inc., Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Times, and Forbes.
“One of the best speaking coaches out there” according to Forbes, David’s program with over 29,000 students has also been featured by Prezi as one of the best training courses for presenters. His book remains one of the highest rated in the world on the (usually not so wildly exciting) topic of public speaking, and his content has been read by over one million people.
He has performed standup comedy at all the leading clubs and was the winner of the prestigious 43rd annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition, even though he usually denies being a comedian and is well aware most people don't understand his accent. As a storyteller he finished runner up in NPR's the Moth's largest US story telling competition and has won multiple Moth Storyslam competitions.
He works with Stanford Graduate Business School, San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, General Assembly, University College Dublin and the Nasdaq entrepreneurial center as a course instructor and his clients include top companies like LinkedIn, best-selling authors, Olympians, TV personalities, CEO's, TED speakers and a penguin he once failed to make funny.
A graduate of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School he calls San Francisco home when immigration officials permit, and was named on the 2017 Irish America 100 List, which recognizes the accomplishments of the best and the brightest Irish-American and Irish-born leaders.