Demonstrations and making your audience laugh

Demonstrations

Some presentations need demonstrations to explain things more clearly to your audience. In order to keep your audience engaged you should ask one of the audiences on stage to demonstrate with you. Don’t force any audience up on stage because some of them are timid. For example you can say “I need an assistant for my next demonstration” this way your audience will most likely volunteer themselves.

Some people are visual learners and some are “need to see it to believe it”. So a demonstration is always useful for different kind of audiences. Some presentations that need demonstrations to keep your audience interested are:

•  Science experiments
• Technology ( all functions work )
• Products ( selling to the consumers )

Once your demonstration has succeeded your audience will gain trust with the product that you are trying to sell or a message that you are trying to deliver.

Therefore, in a presentation demonstration is something that keeps your audience interested because they want to know what will happen and keep them on the edge of their seats. 

Once you have proven yourself through your demonstrations your audience will be very interested for the rest of your presentation.

This video gives you a really good example on how to demonstrate to keep your audiences engaged.

Having a sense of humour, making jokes

I think telling jokes is a way to lightening up the mood. Even though the presentation is important there is no need to make your audiences tense and serious. Lightening up the mood can also make you relax when you present your presentation.

There are 4 important things to keep in mind and to do when making jokes during your presentation:

1. Set the scene for casual.By lightening up your presentation, you might want to project some funny visuals as the audience enters the room, maybe play some uplifting music. You can also add some humor to your program description or any of your accomplishments.

2. Get some laughs with a prop.It has been proven that the most effective way of learning and most memorable about a presentation is through visual aids. A prop is a great way to do it because it not only makes your message memorable but it can also get a laugh.

For example:

o   Use balloons to illustrate how people can let go of stress or a cup of water

o   An inflatable globe to illustrate how we carry the world around on our shoulders.

If it is related to you presentation it is great way to use it and get a laugh.

3. Make it relevant.

When presenting make sure that your humour and jokes are relevant. If you are making jokes that are not relevant to your presentation not only the audience won’t laugh but they will get confused and feel that it is a waste of their time sitting down there.

4. Don’t laugh at your own joke.

Never laugh at your own jokes. It will make your audiences bored.

Therefore, by applying these 4 tips on making jokes or making your presentation humorous should succeed on grasping your audience’s attention. This will make them laugh but at the same time getting your message across and make it memorable to them.
  

Incredible Presentation Resources: Adding Humor to your slides. SlideRocket Blog http://www.sliderocket.com/blog/2010/11/incredible-presentation-resources-adding-humor-to-your-slides/