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Lubricate your presentations with collaborative humour<\/h2>\n

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When people don\u2019t laugh at my jokes \u2013 and by people in this context I mostly mean my children \u2013 I don\u2019t get offended. I remind myself that I was a comedy professional. Yes, the BBC employed me for five years, and as a senior producer I made comedies and light entertainment quizzes for the radio. <\/span><\/p>\n

One treat during this festive season was re-discovering my tape box to find copies missing from the BBC vaults for the repeats they\u2019ll be scheduling this year on BBC Radio 4 Extra. As part of that process, they\u2019ll be digitising the material, and I\u2019ll be dipping into that to post you choice extracts from the early works of Steve Coogan, Caroline Aherne and others I nudged towards superstardom.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Humour encourages deeper connections<\/h3>\n

Meanwhile, humour is at the centre of an excellent presentation<\/a><\/span> by my friend and colleague, Pablo Suarez, innovation director at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking at the recent climate talks in Poland, he\u2019s introducing his Humour for Humanitarians project and reminds us that the roots of the word \u2018humour\u2019 are in the Greek word for \u2018fluid\u2019. Conversations, meetings and conferences all suffer when they lack the lubrication of fluidity. Instead of flowing, they become rigid, lifeless and ineffective.<\/span><\/p>\n

At a previous climate conference Pablo asked a couple of IT assistants why they were laughing. It turned out that they\u2019d noticed a sudden spike in internet use from the main room, and had commented that a Powerpoint must have just started. That signalled the moment when the audience lost interest and turned to their digital devices, illustrating a ludicrous (if all too common) waste of time and money. The live interaction between speaker and audience was lost.<\/span><\/p>\n

So one of his aims is to use humour to create deeper connections at important but potentially dull conferences. And the route to this is not teaching presenters to be stand-up comedians or even to throw away all their slides, but by encouraging presenters and participants to create humour together in collaborative \u2013 often artistic – activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pablo shows how information about flood warnings can be presented in striking sculptures and in augmented reality. In a presentation at the While House, his memorable way of illustrating how science should inform decision-making was throwing a frisbee to illustrate a hurricane hitting you (or not, if you sit down), based on dice throws which offer you early warnings (if you read them right).<\/span><\/p>\n

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The route is not teaching presenters to be stand-up comedians, but by encouraging presenters and participants to create humour together in collaborative activities.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Create emotional life around your topic<\/h3>\n

A first step towards this greater interaction for many of us is often storytelling. Either the presenter tells a relevant, personal story, or they encourage the participants to share their stories. The engagement and fluidity levels rise accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reality of climate change is brought home through stories of economic loss when Dutch canals don\u2019t freeze solidly enough for traditional skating races between villages. Or via the sense of personal loss when the flowers of your childhood no longer bloom. Sharing stories such as these encourages your session participants to tell their own stories to each other \u2013 and suddenly the details bring the topic to emotional (as well as factual) life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Stories can have surprisingly powerful ramifications. The Climate Centre ran a project on flood prevention in a Gambian village, using NASA satellite imagery of water gathering upstream to help manage the floodplain. They placed an article in NASA\u2019s magazine and were invited to run a 4-day exploratory program for NASA on how better to shape their vast amount of data about extreme events into information that professionals can use to help with their forecasting of climate events. I was also thrilled to discover that during the program they played a variation of a Snap game that I\u2019d taught to Pablo, from which they made a pair of word clouds, one before and one after, showing the words that came to mind when thinking about the RC and NASA collaboration. As you see, \u2018Humor\u2019 shows up on the top rank in the \u2018after\u2019 picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019d like a first-hand opportunity to learn activities that create connection<\/span>, encourage collaboration and develop better stories \u2013 learn more about our two-day Storytelling for Leaders<\/a> workshop which will\u00a0take you step by step through activities that will have you telling stories as never before<\/span>!<\/span><\/p>\n

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