Adding Humor Tips: Presenting Humorous Business Stories to Amish
Conor Cunneen – Irishman Speaks, delivers humor-packed insights on Adding Humor to your Presentation while building stronger customer relationships and enhancing your brand image. Through entertaining stories—like Patrick’s leprechaun encounter—Conor illustrates the importance of being intentional and having a plan to achieve success. All these ideas will help you infuse humor into your presentations or speeches while delivering valuable takeaways. Don’t miss out—watch now and learn how to captivate your audience with humor and purpose!
Key Takeaways on Adding Humor Tip 29 to your Presentation
- Adapt Your Content: Customize your presentation for each specific audience while being mindful of their cultural sensitivities and values – in this case, keeping content family-friendly and business-relevant for the Amish community.
- Universal Appeal of Good Stories: Clean, well-told stories with relevant business messages can transcend cultural barriers and connect with any audience, especially when they’re not regularly exposed to such presentations.
- Know Your Audience: Understanding your audience’s background and environment (families with children, business focus, cultural context) helps shape an appropriate and effective presentation.
- Authenticity Matters: The success came from relating well to people and telling relevant, inoffensive stories that resonated with their business interests, proving that genuine connection trumps sophisticated humor.
Want to Add Humor to your presentation? Get 53 Humorous Quotes & Flubs for any Speech
About IrishmanSpeaks
Conor Cunneen is an Irishman, happily exiled in Chicago where he says “the Guinness is good, the people are friendly and he has been force fed more corned beef and green beer than he ever had in Ireland!”
As an Irish immigrant, he is a very proud recipient of the President’s Gold Medal for Volunteer Service for the work he does with job seekers.
He is proud dad to John and Amy and a loving irritant to his long suffering wife, Pat, whom his sister-in-law states will be canonized the moment she leaves this planet!
He is also an in-demand keynote speaker, facilitator, author, consultant, award winning humorist and master of ceremonies to associations, corporations and healthcare.
PHONE CONOR at 630 661 1220 to ensure a successful next event and an inspirational client-focused speaker you can rely on.
Conor Cunneen – IrishmanSpeaks.
Conor’s mission is to Improve People, Performance & Productivity – with a Smile. This Chicago based motivational business speaker, cancer survivorship speaker and business humorist promised to leave your audience with a Smile on the face, a Spring in the step and memorable, actionable takeaways to ensure your meeting objectives are met.
More Tips for Adding Humor to your Presentation
Adding Humor to your Speech – Tip 24
Adding Humor Tip #25: Five Secrets to L.A.U.G.H.
Video Transcript: Adding Humor Tips: Presenting Humorous Business Stories to Amish
If you had to pick one session that you did – and you don’t need to name the company obviously – but that really sticks in your mind as “this was the best one I’ve done thus far” you know in terms of humor and reaction and how you feel your message got across to the people, was there something special about that one session?
Would you believe it was to an Amish audience? Yes, okay. All right, so Shipshewana, Indiana. I was down there year before last. They’ve got a large exhibition hall – as you know, Amish are wonderful craftsmen, carpenters etc., and they’re very good business people as well.
I drive down to Indiana, I come to this large exhibition hall and parking lot, and it’s full of horses, buggies and horse dung – about 20 F-150 trucks, that’s about it. So I go in, having been advised by my wife “Don’t use profanity.” I’m very, very careful of when I’m speaking to audiences, but she said “You need to be very careful with this group.”
So I’m doing a presentation – which I adapt for each audience – it’s a program called The Gift of GAB, and GAB is an acronym for Goals, Attitude, Behavior. I came in and I was doing this presentation on the Gift of GAB – goals, attitude and behavior to help you build your business.
But the audience though was all of the dads come in, their wives come in with them, they bring the kids in with them as well. So you got kids from 3 to 13 probably there, the three and four year olds are sitting on Dad’s lap and on Mom’s lap as well, and I’m thinking “How’s this going to go?”
What happened actually was – I do good stories with good humor – I have never ever had such a good reaction to the stories and to the humor. Now, program on adding humor to your presentation and after a while you should know when the audience is going to laugh and how long they’re going to laugh for, so you leave them laugh, but this Amish community they just kept laughing and laughing. I remember being in front of them and saying “This is wonderful!” It was just fantastic.
I left the event and I just got into the car, texted my wife and I said “This is the best gig I’ve ever done” and she comes back “Seriously?” and I said “Yes.” So I mean it’s amazing – the reason why it worked was I think I can relate well to people, but I think they wouldn’t be used to having humor or good stories at some of their events. So when I was telling them good stories that were relevant to their business and were not at all kind of offensive, I can still see their faces – it was magic.