You’ve Got To Be Joking! A Humor Workshop for Trainers

Instructor development
Why humor buys attention, how jokes are built, and writing and delivering your own material.
Author

Dan Fraser, Royal Canadian Mounted Police / Fraser Training Solutions

Published

December 5, 2026

Saturday 05 Dec / 11:00 AM / Royal Canadian Mounted Police / Fraser Training Solutions

The session

Before students can retain anything, the trainer has to win their attention, and humor is a reliable way to get it. This classroom session covers why humor makes training engaging and memorable, basic joke structure and joke-writing technique, and how to add humor to a slide deck with images. Participants run improv exercises to build the mindset, then write and immediately deliver their own material.

About the presenter

Dan is a police officer from Alberta with over 25 years building and delivering presentations in government and the private sector. He has trained thousands of officers and now speaks and coaches internationally as an instructor development specialist, drawing on his experience as a standup comedian. He is the author of Kickass Presentations.