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Speaking and Presentation Skills School -
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Perfect for Sales Professionals
who Want a Competitive Edge
...and Geeks who Speak!

Thursday & Friday, June 19 & 20, 2008
8:30am - 5:30pm
Palo Alto, California
(San Francisco Bay Area)

...the workshop dedicated to achieving excellence in your public speaking and presentation skills...

If you are a novice, intermediate, or even advanced business presenter or professional speaker, you can benefit from Fripp's unique ability to demystify the process of what it takes to design a great presentation.

Patricia says, "There are three simple, but necessary, parts to every effective presentation. They are (1) the structure or framework, (2) the content or material, and (3) your delivery. The structure and content are important to focus on before you work on your delivery or presentation style. After all, why work at polishing a presentation that is not worth listening to?" (Patricia Fripp's Speaking and Presentation Skills School: Day Two will focus more on how you present more effectively.)

Being perceived as a dynamic, inspiring, and persuasive communicator is no longer a nice skill to have; it is a matter of business life and death!

Leaders set the tone of how an entire organization is expected to communicate.

If you are a leader or manager who realizes the value to your career and business when you are a confident, competent communicator...

If you are involved in sales and need to help improve or perfect sales conversations and presentations...

You can benefit from the Patricia Fripp Speaking & Presentation Skills School

A Fraction of Fripp's Presentation Philosophy:

  • There is no such thing as a boring subject, only a boring speaker.
  • To be successful your remarks have to be addressed from the audience's point of view.
  • When you take some of the best techniques of Hollywood, copywriting, and sales, then add them to your business or professional presentations, they will be dramatically improved.
  • The art is hiding the art.
  • Rehearsal is the work, performance is the relaxation.

Consider This:

  • Would it be helpful if your audience remembered what you said?
  • Would it be beneficial if they could repeat your key points two weeks later?
  • Would it be profitable if potential clients knew why you are the chosen vendor ahead of your competition?

If yes, yes, and yes...sign up now!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUNE 19 & 20, 2008

CLICK HERE FOR SPEAKING SCHOOL FAQS

Location
Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel
625 El Camino Real                         PRINT A BROCHURE (PDF)
(Spruce and Maple Rooms)
Palo Alto, CA 94301
(650) 328-2800

Investment
Early Registration, Through June 1, 2008
---$350 Thursday Only / $700 Both Days
Regular Registration, June 2, 2008 - June 19, 2008
---$450 Thursday Only / $900 Both Days
Registration includes morning coffee and extensive workbook.

We reserve the right to refuse registrations.

Registration Discounts For
* Fripp one-on-one Executive Speech Coaching Clients save 50%
* Fripp Speaking School Alumni save 50%
* World Champions' Edge Members save 20%
(Only one discount to apply per registration.)

At the Patricia Fripp Speaking & Presentation Skills School You Will Learn How to Design and Deliver a Company-Building, Confidence-Enhancing, Executive-Projecting, Powerful, Persuasive Speech or Presentation

All executives, managers, and sales leaders are required to make presentations internally, to their Board of Directors, and to clients. Frequently, they have the opportunity to deliver a speech that will influence share holders, Wall Street, and improve their company reputation.

If you want to develop, or perfect, the ability to be perceived as a dynamic, inspiring, and persuasive presenter why wait? After all, leaders set the tone of how an entire organization is expected to communicate.

Unfortunately, many highly-intelligent, well-educated and ambitious leaders fear public speaking — of any kind — and they panic when these opportunities arise. Often when they are in front of their clients, the quality of their presentations does not reflect the image of their company. Award-winning and legendary communicator Patricia Fripp says, "It is mind-boggling how many executives spend years finding creative ways to get OUT of speaking situations! Instead, why not invest the time learning the specific skills to design and deliver dynamic presentations? These skills will last a lifetime."

This relatively small investment is a career-building move!

In this two-day speaking and presentation skills school, you will learn exactly how to create and deliver a presentation that is on-target for your audience and will be remembered...for all the right reasons.

Imagine the impact on your career when your competence is obvious every time you open your mouth!

Fripp's Speaking & Presentation Skills School
Day One: Content & Structure

You will learn how to:

  • Implement the three critical aspects of your business presentation
  • Adopt 10 Do's and Don'ts to ensure your presentation is consistently successful
  • Save time by utilizing the Fripp Presentation Organization Tool to organize and structure your remarks
  • Craft your thoughts into a fool-proof blueprint or structure
  • Connect both emotionally and intellectually with every audience
  • Adapt your message and content for each audience
  • Personalize each presentation to the audience
  • Open with impact and close every presentation on a high point
  • Discover perfect examples to illustrate your key points
  • Create or discover memorable stories and examples
  • Electrify your examples
  • Discover the one behavior an audience won't forgive
  • Eliminate the enemy of every presenter
  • Be more spontaneous
  • Embrace you as the star, not your visual aids
  • Question and Answer techniques
  • Recognize--and avoid--the most common bad speaking habits to minimize your own nervousness
  • Use PowerPoint as a valuable tool and not a crutch

Attend this session and you are guaranteed to:

  • Improve listener buy-in for your point of view
  • Be remembered and repeated
  • Be more persuasive
  • Build your reputation as a confident leader.

This is a highly-interactive seminar and guarantees to simplify and demystify the process of designing and delivering a dynamic, professional, business presentation.

You will learn from a legend in the speaking and executive speech coaching world.

Fripp's Speaking & Presentation Skills School
Day Two: Delivery & Persuasiveness You will learn how to:

  • Increase effectiveness through Hollywood principles
  • Create original material and content
  • Appreciate your variety of theatrical choices
  • Take your delivery to the next level through little known nuances
  • Find your own stories and examples for sales presentations
  • Learn the difference between "movie" and "theater" acting and how it impacts your business presentations
  • Learn to be a speech coach for yourself or sales team
  • Make your sales presentation more persuasive
  • Add the elements of a true "motivational" speech
  • Have your questions answered
  • Coach your team while you watch as "magic is created" before your eyes with Fripp's mini coaching sessions with audience members.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR JUNE 19 & 20, 2008

CLICK HERE FOR SPEAKING SCHOOL FAQS

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