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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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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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 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.
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“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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Whether you are delivering a business or sales presentation, it’s a mistake to think you can just “wing it.” If you have years of experience in your industry or profession, this still holds true. Even professional speakers must prepare for and rehearse before each presentation.
My brother Robert Fripp, the genius in my family and an internationally acclaimed guitarist from the band King Crimson describes it this way: “Every time you put your foot on the stage, there is an assumption of innocence within a context of experience.“
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This is why Jeff did not really do everything wrong!
My remarkable friend, Dr. Jeff Salz is an anthropologist, explorer, expedition leader, and professional speaker. Jeff is an adventurer from birth. At seventeen, he was solo traveling around the globe – ice climbing in New Zealand and living on vampire bats in the jungles of New Caledonia. After decades of exploration and his study of human nature around the world, he is equally at home leading in a boardroom of Fortune 100 executives or around a bonfire with tribesmen in the Upper Amazon. One trait that makes Jeff an excellent speaker is his authenticity.
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The opening lines of your presentation – whether it’s a sales, business, or professional presentation – can be compared to the opening scenes of a movie. We all know the thrill of a blockbuster that grabs our attention from the first frame, versus the agony of a slow-starter that leaves us squirming in our seats. The first 30 seconds (and also, the last 30 seconds) of your speech have the strongest impact on your audience, so it is worth giving your opening words some extra attention.
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My friend, Michael Hauge is a brilliant Hollywood story consultant, author, screenwriting coach, and speaker. His experience as a top Hollywood script consultant is evident in his masterful ability to bring out the emotional potential of any story. Following his expert advice, both business speakers and professional speakers can learn how to tell their stories more effectively. I share Michael’s article on character description:
Read More...What’s the worst experience you’ve had delivering an important presentation? Have you forgotten what you meant to say? Realized you should have edited your slides? Or even noticed your audience slipping away? In this brief video sample from Fripp Virtual Training, I share one executive’s worst presentation experience:
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You’re planning your company’s next meeting and you want everything to be perfect. You’ve got a location, theme, and date. The next thing to do is to hire a professional speaker. How do you choose the right speaker? And after you’ve found a speaker, is there anything you can do to help ensure that their program meets your expectations?
Here’s a checklist:
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I always say, “There’s no point in going anywhere if people don’t remember you were there.” Being memorable is key to effective networking, persuasive sales conversations, and powerful presentations. You can make yourself more memorable by building emotional connections and using “you-focused” language in all of your communications – and by cultivating your natural charisma.
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