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Laughter -an alternative route!

After listening to your needs and doing her research, Rachel will target her presentation to your conference, special event or specified requirement. This can be customised for marketing, leadership or organisational communication.

"She scored more nines and tens on the audience satisfaction scale than a Russian ice skater at the Winter Olympics. Rachel was considerate of our theme and incorporated it smoothly into her routine. I believe the evening was a success because she had the ability to become a local for a night and relate to our audience on a personal level."
Yvonne Lewis
Tough Times Tough People project in Lower Hume.
Lower Hume Primary Care Partnership

"Setting the scene, your performance guided us into our Guest Satisfaction Feedback session. It certainly warmed up the crowd and provided a relevant platform for discussion. It really did refresh the way in which we deliver our guest feedback results!"
Cara George
Training & Development Manager
TOGA HOSPITALITY

"Rachel did such a great job of getting to know our business that we're thinking of offering her a job as a resident wit, customer service consultant and employee support officer. She did a fabulous job as our MC, threading the elements of the program together with enough energy and enthusiasm to launch our new year with a huge splash. The response was a flood of laughter that could offset any drought. Rachel is a thorough professional who listens to your needs and delivers with sensitivity, humour and her own distinctive interpretation (and a sting if you're up for it!)"
Robert Wilson
Learning & Development Manager Human Resources
Yarra Valley Water

Rachel Berger also looks at how

* Laughter can give you the tools to use humour and transform the way you communicate and make decisions.
Her method is to work very closely with clients to establish a clear understanding of their desired outcomes. Her unique skill is to speedily synthesise the key issues into a crystallised form and persuasively target them to your audience, your staff or your clients and customers, through humour. Sessions can be structured for individuals to prepare for specific presentations or for groups in facilitated sessions

* Laughter and seeing things through a humorous lens gives you useful tools that you can integrate into everything you do.
Imagine CEOs and top executives incorporating wit and imagination into their presentations, holding their audiences in the palms of their hands and delivering their messages with confidence. Wouldn’t this change the tone of board meetings, corporate presentations and sales meetings? It’s been said that a good pitch is 20 percent what you say and 80 percent how you say it. How you deliver your message will separate you from your competitors. Rachel says, "My objective is to inject business presentations with surprise and laughter to help corporate executives deliver their message with magnetism in the often dry and lackluster business communications arena.

* Research in the fields of medicine and marketing has shown the power of humour in affecting both data retention and rates of behavioural change.
"The exact effect of humour on the central nervous system is not fully known, but it is theorised that increased catecholamine levels are responsible for the beneficial effects humour has on mental functions, including increasing interpersonal responsiveness, alertness and memory."
Fry WF The Physiologic Effects of Humour, Mirth and Laughter JAMA 1992.

Workplaces are continually changing, as are methods of work and how employees are required to do their job. Although it’s essential that productivity is always improving, it should not be at the cost of diminished focus and professional commitment. Using humour, Rachel creates a safe environment for discussion that delivers the opportunity for participants to sift through what feeds their anxieties and prejudices. Once we’ve dug deep to discover the essential causal factors, we can tackle the problems as a group, with laughter as our drilling device.

"Working with Rachel Berger was an absolute treat. In a weak moment I had agreed to stand up in front of 150 work colleagues and try to be funny. Normally I can't even make myself laugh. I had no ideas and no time, but Rachel wasn't going to be deterred! Rachel gave me an environment where I felt comfortable and could be open. After talking through potential issues, she was also able to see the essence of the things we talked about and helped me develop a routine that made people laugh and didn't leave me looking like an idiot."
Merita Tabain
Executive Director Strategic Communications Department of Innovation,
Industry and Regional Development

"In a short recent session with Rachel, she was able to grasp the key aspects of a complex new product and come up with a brilliant name which captured the idea and made our client laugh. That change of state within a group under pressure served to differentiate us from the competition in several ways and we look forward to using Rachel's skills across other areas of the business."
Jane Lewis,
Manager Business Development, AGL Energy Sales and Marketing.

To discuss your ideas and get more details email boomboom@rachelberger.com


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