Still from Toastmasters International video how to deliver a wedding toast.
Outside of the privacy of your own home, all speaking is public speaking.

Just in time for wedding season, Toastmasters International offers five excellent tips to help you deliver the perfect wedding toast. Even if you aren’t expecting to deliver a wedding toast this year, these strategies can help you prepare for occasions in your professional or personal life when you are asked to make a toast or share a few remarks. After all, outside of the privacy of your own home all speaking is public speaking.

Don’t Burn Your Wedding Toast
Toastmasters International Offers Tips for Toasting to Newlyweds

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Patricia Fripp
Patricia Fripp

Just a heads up in case you are interested… Along with my good friends, Hall of Fame speaker, customer service expert, and this year’s National Speakers Association President Shep Hyken; Hall of Fame speaker, leadership expert, and popular author Mark Sanborn; and sales guru and author Jeffrey Gitomer, I am part of a Tortal Training’s Breakthrough Ideas in Training webinar series. In total, you can learn from 22 training experts.

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Patricia Fripp & Darren La Croix in Action
Patricia Fripp & Darren La Croix in Action with Coachee Dave Chase

To be a better speaker, sometimes it’s better to not to speak. Deliver your key phrase or question and then pause… and pause… and pause. Get comfortable with silence. Darren LaCroix is a World Champion of Public Speaking, professional speaker, and presentation expert. We team up for speakers’ conferences. I share this from Darren who explains why we cannot overlook the pause:

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2015 Toastmasters Golden Gavel Recipient & Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Muhammad Yunus
2015 Toastmasters Golden Gavel Recipient & Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Muhammad Yunus

Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization teaching public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network.

I was honored to deliver the opening keynote at the 2015 Toastmasters International Convention in Las Vegas. The last time I addressed a Toastmasters International Convention was in 2001, when I watched my colleague, Darren LaCroix, win the World Championship of Public Speaking and my friend, a fellow NSA (National Speakers Association) Past President, Jim Cathcart win Toastmasters Golden Gavel Award.  The 2015 Golden Gavel going to Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, this promises to be a truly international and exciting event!

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Screenshot from Fripp VT Patricia Fripp explains why and how to open your presentation with impact through Fripp Virtual Training.
Patricia Fripp explains why and how to open your presentation with impact through Fripp Virtual Training.

Always start your presentation with a strong opening; this is the most effective way to ensure your audience is engaged, listening with thoughtful attention, and able to follow what comes next.

It may seem natural to open with a greeting like, “Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to be here with you today to talk to you about X…” But this is just too predictable, and you run the risk of your audience members tuning out before you’ve even gotten started!

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Patricia Fripp, Executive Speech Coach, Fripp Virtual Training Video
Through Fripp Virtual Training, Executive Speech Coach Patricia Fripp explains how to open a presentation.

The first 30 seconds of your presentation is the optimum time for you to capture your audience’s attention. Don’t waste it! Give your opening words some extra consideration. Always start your presentation with impact. When you engage your audience immediately, you help to ensure the overall success of your presentation. Here are a few of my favorite opening phrases. 

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Mystery Guest
My Mystery Guest explains how to rapidly attract the right clients in an already saturated market.

I thought you might be interested in hearing about my upcoming, brilliant mystery guest. We all love mysteries, and we all love stories. Stories are often about a hero who has overcome an unbelievable obstacle, like Bob.

Bob was involved in the real estate investing business and was having a pretty tough time.

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Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker and Executive Speech Coach, Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE
Sales Presentation Expert & Executive Speech Coach, Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE

It is not your client’s job to remember you. It is your obligation and responsibility to make sure you’re unforgettable.

My clients tell me my advice is practical and easy to immediately implement. Just like this one simple, powerful, and often overlooked suggestion. This is a great action step you can take today…

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Patricia Fripp, Fripp Virtual Training
Patricia Fripp explains the secrets of successful storytelling through Fripp Virtual Training.

Top salespeople, corporate visionaries, and celebrity-level professional speakers may have significantly different business backgrounds, skill sets, and philosophies – but for the most part, they all share the ability to tell a good story.


Public speaking is the number one tool of leadership. If you know you need to improve your public speaking skills, mastering the ability to tell a great story should be high on your list. Stories have the power to create interest and drama from even the driest data.

When you tell a good story, you can teach, inspire, inform, or be persuasive. To accomplish this:

1.) Your stories need to be populated with flesh-and-blood characters that others can relate to.

2.) You must deliver the dialogue, not report on the dialogue.

3.) Above all, you must craft your stories to emotionally connect with your audiences.

Business, after all, isn’t just about numbers and data. It’s about people, situations, conflict, empathy, drama, comedy, and countless other human interactions. Storytelling is too often overlooked as a business technique. Fortunately, if you are not a born storyteller, the ability to tell a story successfully can be learned. Maximize your effectiveness by learning how to tell powerful and persuasive stories.

When it comes to public speaking, increased competence leads to increased confidence. Executive Speech Coach, Patricia Fripp now shares her secrets to successful storytelling through FrippVT.

Fripp Virtual Training, FrippVTFripp Virtual Training is a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art, web-based training platform that emulates live training and coaching. It is almost as if Presentation Expert and Executive Speech Coach, Patricia Fripp were sitting down with you. FrippVT is designed to be immediately engaging and makes it fun to learn. If you are a novice presenter or a seasoned professional, you will find the content both practical and relevant.

Sign up for your complimentary trial and discover how FrippVT can transform you and your team. Take advantage of your free trial.

Your Presentation – Remember the Three S’s of Dynamic Stories,” “Storytelling – Help Your Audience ‘See’ Your Characters,” “Story Strategy to Improve Your Sales Presentations – Part 1,” and “Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling” are just a few of the many resources on Fripp.com to help you with your storytelling.

Executive Speech Coach and Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker Patricia Fripp works with individuals and companies who realize that powerful, persuasive presentation skills give them a competitive edge.

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