Q. How are Bob’s presentations customized?

A. His regular presentations (not the spoof or other unconventional talks) are tailored to his audiences primarily by focusing on business activities they regularly engage in. Bob’s presentations about using humor in one’s professional life are in modules. These include applications such as promoting a business product or service using humor, problem solving, managing, selling, dealing with hostility and confrontation, etc. For example, if he is speaking at a sales meeting he focuses on humor in selling, whereas if he is at a management retreat, he spends lots of time on humor’s role in managing effectively.

Q. How are Bob’s presentations different from that of other speakers on the same topic?

A. Rather than dwelling on the niceties of it all, he examines various business activities and looks at the desired dynamics and then explains how to generate those dynamics by utilizing humor.

Q. My members, the audience, are quite smart. Won’t this mean that the spoof will not be effective with them?

A. On the contrary, Bob’s spoofs go over better with intelligent audiences than with lamer ones. For example, Bob’s put-on before a group of international scientists (including a couple of Nobel Prize winners) went over extremely well. He has masqueraded as a top Justice Department official in a room full of FBI agents. The smarter the audience members, the better Bob’s customized spoofs go over.

Q. How does Bob prepare for the humorous spoof?

A. He studies the group, going over reports, newsletters, articles about the industry, etc. He picks up the buzzwords and becomes knowledgeable about the industry or company so that he comes across as believable in whatever role he and the meeting planner decide upon for him.

Q. When is the best time to use Bob’s services – at the beginning of the meeting, at its close or in the middle?

A. All has their advantages and Bob frequently serves in more than one slot on the program. He sometimes opens and closes conventions. Other times he provides some comic relief to meetings that have lots of technical sessions. He often provides the keynote or luncheon talk and then emcees the closing banquet or awards dinner.