Dr. Oliver Tissot: To be able to bring something to the point with wit and verve, one must first find the crucial point. Given the complex content and the limited time available to me, one can imagine that one would often prefer to give up rather than take it easy. So, this has less to do with roulette than with routine. To make people laugh heartily or evoke strong emotions, one must proceed rationally. It depends on the right balance of inspiration, perspiration, and concentration. Over a good decade of experience, enlightenment, and amusement at business events and biting eventualities have made me an expert in laughter. Over a dozen years in which I have astonished people who previously believed their events had to be deadly serious. Unfortunately, they were then also dead boring. However, when important matters are framed humorously, they become impactful. So, it's not magic, but rather seasoning: I add spice to events and create appetite because I derive something cheerful from serious topics. Every time very individual and tailor-made, truly unique. That is my unique selling point: I offer sparkling programs that cannot be rehearsed months in advance but are topically relevant to what is currently happening.
Speakers Excellence: With a keen sense of humor, you humorously dissect important and extraordinary matters. Nothing and no one escapes you. Speaker colleagues, bosses, celebrities, and other actors on stage must expect to be "tissotized," that is, comically commented on. Does it ever happen that you have to flee from those you have targeted with your satire after your performance?Dr. Oliver Tissot: On the contrary: organizers appreciate me because guests are intelligently entertained and leave very uplifted. Moreover, thanks to my humorous summary, more remains in memory than if facts had been recited dryly. Product managers have reported that participants bought significantly more after presentations where I performed compared to other events. Sales managers are also impressed because I address the gut feeling of a good field salesperson and awaken healthy hunting instincts. Listeners of my speeches can burst out laughing because I create a sense of unity, alleviate fears, render worries absurd, and generate joy without being flat or crude. And those whom I hold a mirror up to generally feel honored. When someone is "roughly licked" - as they say in Bavaria when the powerful are reprimanded - they can be sure they are an important personality. Artful punchlines are crafted only around something that is relevant. Thus, a fitting retort is a humorous form of recognition. No one is made a fool of; the fool is me - a kind of modern court jester. And just as in the past, court is held where one wants to foster hope. Many crave, few reign, the fool reacts. As Ringelnatz once said, "Humor is the button that prevents our collar from bursting."
Speakers Excellence: How did you come to professionally engage in subtle, sophisticated wordplay? Wouldn't you also have what it takes to be a lawyer or politician?Dr. Oliver Tissot: Lawyers and elected officials may have a mandate, but in the end, what matters is what one did. Advocates and politicians are as common as sand on the beach. They also often end up wasting a lot of sand. I am more of someone who doesn't just sit around talking about always wanting more but takes it a step further: If you don't go along with every wave, the water won't rise to your neck so quickly, and you can still be fluid! No, seriously: The path to becoming a linguistic acrobat in a few words: Editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, school theater, cabaret, design and sociology studies, doctorate, performances from America to South Korea, awards. I never thought that the tremendous fun I have and create would culminate in a journalist's critique that I am the best business comedian in Germany. But that's what it says in the newspaper. And I stand by that. And so do many listeners. I certainly stand by it... and am available.
Speakers Excellence: What provides you with better material? The bone-dry professional congress or a "Tschakka" motivational summit?Dr. Oliver Tissot: I enjoy both types of events. And the participants do too when I perform there. As long as I remain curious and follow the congress curiosities and summit storms with great interest, the yield of amusing material will be large enough to provide varied entertainment. Besides, what the legendary media mogul Helmut Thoma said applies to my engagements: "The bait must taste good to the fish - not the fisherman." So, instead of fishing in murky waters, I delve into things, inquire further, and find out what specifically bothers people. If it's meant to be to the audience's liking, it's not the tiny but the well-fed worms that need to be skewered. Helmut Thoma was only thinking about fishing, but sometimes at business events, it feels like someone wants to lift the whole world off its hinges. You can tell when the same word is used but doesn't mean the same thing. In such cases, humor often comes to the rescue. "Slowly, people are also beginning to understand how important humor is as a skill - both in terms of social competence and as an anti-stress strategy (i.e., as a prevention of stress damage) and in terms of cheerfulness as a healing process!" This was said by Vera Birkenbihl, one of the most influential management coaches in Germany. It is also becoming increasingly clear that the post-industrial age requires different values than those needed to build an industrial nation. Flexibility and adaptability are needed, not diligence and effort. Enthusiasm, empathy, and willingness to take risks, rather than following simple work instructions, are the more important recipes for success. Therefore, the human capital of a company is one of the crucial factors for sustained success. Laughter is indeed profitable!
Speakers Excellence: Do you achieve more than just good spirits for the moment with the laughter of the audience? Is your word acrobatics helpful in implementing the strategies of the companies you perform for?Dr. Oliver Tissot: Simply for reasons of efficiency and sustainability, more fun should be ensured. Humor promotes insight and understanding and initiates behavioral changes. Furthermore, humorous communication is concise and surprisingly entertaining due to its often unexpected punchline. A good joke contains a kind of mnemonic technique: The extraordinary is what sticks in memory. The special thing about humor: The punchline must be "cracked." One is pleased with one's own intelligence in recognizing the humor. This laughter from insight promotes a conscious engagement and identification with the content, emotionally charged positively. Unfortunately, managers often prefer long-windedness over conciseness and sanctimoniousness over satire. When listening, one quickly realizes that a promise doesn't necessarily mean getting something promised but rather that someone is trying to excuse themselves for misspeaking! Often, entire industries suffer from deficits, which can be seen in companies joining associations - a form of society described as pharmaceutical material needed for major wounds. When things get complicated, a committee is often formed. But what should one make of it when the same word also means production waste that is no longer of any use? In such cases, it's better to just laugh it off!
Oliver Tissot, infotainer, word acrobat, and laughter expert, is a master of wordplay. He juggles high-mindedness with depth and profoundness in top form. With a mix of bold opinions, quirks, and more, he is making waves. Whether at a gala or a fun event, with 20 or 2,000 listeners: Tissot serves up the humorous highlight for meetings, greetings, and your thing in a charming, amusing, and entertaining way.
