Apart from leaving the audience with a positive impression of the message, a humorous motivational speaker can make a significant impact on how well the audience retains the message.
When you are looking to hire a great motivational speaker, you may wish to consider the following litmus test.
The Speaker Is Not a Stand-up Comic
You do not have to tell jokes to be funny, nor is it a good idea to interject humor into subject matter that is not humorous. Humor is a valuable tool, a tool that allows the speaker to connect and relate to the audience. Humor can be found in retelling a personal story. It can be making light of something that just happened somewhere in the audience. What is important is the use of wit and impeccable timing.
The Speaker Must Be Relevant
It is one thing for the speaker to be funny; it is another thing to ensure the humor is relevant. A good, humorous motivational speaker knows his or her material and audience; they do not give “canned” presentations. A generic presentation, one that could have been given to any group, makes the message irrelevant. The best presentations are those that dovetail the message into the work situation and do it with humor.
Helps the Audience Revise the Way They Think, Act, and Feel
Any message can be cloaked in humor. However, for the message to revise the way the audience thinks, acts, or feels, the motivation to grow and change must always be at the forefront of the presentation. A humorous motivational speaker gets the message across and does it in such a way that it will be thought about and discussed well into the future. The objective of a good motivational speaker is to simplify the steps to change and to do it with a touch of humor.
