You've heard many tips on this show over the years on how to communicate effectively.

And yet, how can you utilize a good sense of humor in order to get your message across with others. On today's show, how to engage with

humor. This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 245.

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host

Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made and this weekly show will give you access to the best thinkers, resources, and

actions that will help you to develop your leadership skills and thank you for tuning into the show again this week.

I'm glad you did because today we're going to tackle a topic that, well, is one that is challenging

for a lot of us, which is humor.

And actually not just humor, but more importantly,

how do we engage people?

And I'm really glad to introduce my guest today and that

gentleman is David Nihil. David is the author of Do You Talk Funny?

Seven comedy habits to become a better and funnier public speaker.

And we're also going to be chatting today about not just speaking, but how to be funny in conversation

in general.

David, I'm so glad to welcome you to coaching for leaders.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

When I was looking at your website, found this this phrase that you guys had featured I think on one of the

videos and it said humor isn't a nice to have, it's a must to have.

Tell me more about that. Why that message?

Yeah, I mean, very much what we were finding that audiences these days were socially conditioned to receive information

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