Executive Speech Coach & Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker – Patricia Fripp CSP, CPAE
Legendary Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn said, “If I want to send a message, I’ll use a telegram.” Yet, all great films – and good speeches – have a message. Some recent movies go on and on with explosions and car chases. They’re exciting, but at the end, the audience is often left with a big, “So what?”
In a speech, the funniest or most exhilarating story will be pointless if you don’t tie it into your theme and provide a lesson for the listener.
Executive Speech Coach & Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker – Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE
One of my really good pals, a great high energy professional speaker and fellow members of Speakers Roundtable, got so excited in a presentation that he lost his voice. He found this solution and said it worked! Thanks so much Adam Drake for sharing this information. I recommend you take Adam’s tips to protect your voice. However, if you find yourself with a voice or throat problem, you will want to keep this list handy. I will!
Patricia
How to Purge Effects on the Voice Box
By Adam Drake, eHow contributor
Our voices are like barometers that indicate our overall health and well-being. Voice is produced through the delicate interaction of three different systems — air flow, vibration and resonance. When there are difficulties in any of these areas, because of illness or accident, the voice can become weak, painful and ineffective. Damage to the vocal cords, which are in the larynx (voicebox), can occur after prolonged periods of infection, such as laryngitis, or loud speaking or shouting. Reduce or eliminate unwanted effects with some simple vocal exercises that will return your voice to optimum condition and performance.
Instructions
1. Sit or stand with a straight back and place your open hands flat on your stomach with the fingertips just touching. Breath in through your nose and push out your stomach. Your fingertips should separate. Count to three in your head, then exhale while slowly drawing your stomach in. Your fingertips should touch again. Repeat this exercise five times.
2. Shrug your shoulders up to your ears then relax. Repeat this movement five times.
Patricia Fripp, Coaching an Attendee at a Recent World Champions’ Edge Speech Coaching Camp
One of my roles as an executive speech coach is helping my clients sound original, fresh and thoughtful. Phrases and words that are redundant and overused should be banished; whether you’re writing or speaking, these will weaken your message and cause your audience to tune out.
Ragan Communications featured this article by Marc Ensign. Marc shares his list of the 12 most cringe-worthy business phrases. We agree on so many of these phrases!
Listening to most business people makes me cringe. They purposely sprinkle their language with fancy schmancy catchphrases and five dollar words in what I can only assume is an effort to make up for years of being picked last in kickball. Could you be one of them? Let’s take a look at 12 of the most offending words and phrases and find out.
Patricia Fripp – Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker & Executive Speech Coach
As an executive speech coach I’ve had corporate speakers bring me sheets of statistics and say, “Here’s what I want to talk about.”
“Why should your audience care about all this?,” I ask. “Where is the excitement? Where is the story?” Then we set about turning the numbing data into stimulating descriptions of what it all means. More than any words you say, people will remember what they “see” in their minds while they are listening.
If you plan to be a dynamic business or professional speaker, you need to deliver dynamic stories – stories that are interesting, memorable, and illustrate your point in a way that can inspire, persuade, or teach.
When an audience – of one or one thousand – listens to your story they must find it interesting, connect to it emotionally, and learn a lesson from it. Your story must make an obvious point in your speech or conversation.
Here is the sure fire formula that all good stories follow:
My brother, legendary guitarist Robert Fripp and my sister-in-law, British singer and actress Toyah Willcox recently appeared on ITV’s All Star Mr & Mrs hosted by Phillip Schofield. Brother is well known within the music industry for being erudite and very considered in his views. However, from Mr & Mrs his sense of play and apparent lack of seriousness is very obvious. The show features celebrity couples competing to win a donation to the charity of their choice. Enjoy!
YouTube clip:
Photo stills from the show:
Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox on All Star Mr & Mrs
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Executive Speech Coach and Hall of Fame Keynote SpeakerPatricia Fripp works with individuals and companies who realize that powerful, persuasive presentation skills give them a competitive edge.
Ragan Communications is a great source of information for communicators. They hold various conferences including the Ragan Speechwriters Conference that I have been honored to keynote. The more you study writing and public speaking the more you realize there is to learn.
This list is challenging me and certainly teaches me new information. Hope you enjoy!
Powerful sales presentations are always focused on your client’s problem, goal or challenge – not on your product or the service you provide. If a client’s needs are not seen, or not of interest to you, the client will not want to talk to you.
Remember, there is an underlying reason you’ve gotten an initial conversation with a potential client. Without questioning, we know there is at least some interest or itch – otherwise they wouldn’t be talking to us. With our questioning, this itch can become a welt. But don’t worry – you can offer a salve.
My Brother, Legendary Guitarist Robert Fripp in London
British music journalist and editor of Uncut magazine, Allan Jones devotes most of his recent Editor’s Diary column to my brother Robert Fripp in a piece called, “Robert Fripp steals the show in David Bowie documentary.” Jones writes:
“I don’t know if you saw it, but BBC2’s David Bowie documentary, Five Years, screened at the weekend, was very entertaining. A lot of the archive footage was familiar, but there were also some splendidly unexpected highlights…
Robert Fripp’s Exposure
…by far the most eccentric contribution to the programme, however, came with the appearance of King Crimson’s Robert Fripp, who had some interesting things to say about playing guitar on Heroes and pretty much stole the show in the process…”
Jones continues to recount a 1979 visit with Brother during which he interviewed Robert about his first solo album Exposure. Jones comically recalls dining at a 1970’s-era vegetarian restaurant with Brother and shares some recollections of the interview:
“Thank you so much,” he (Robert) says, and begins to speak directly into my microphone as if he’s addressing a public meeting or a planning enquiry. Fully 40 minutes later, almost without taking a breath, he’s filled almost an entire side of C90 tape and is still going strong, eventually shedding light on what Exposure’s all about…”
Though everyone knows that Robert Fripp is internationally-known for his brilliance with the guitar, it might surprise some to learn that he is a superb and entertaining public speaker as well. Sometimes the two of us team up together to present keynotes like our, “Good to Great—Beginner to Mastery” and “How to Be a Hero for More Than One Day.”
Thank you to Allan Jones for sharing his musings on my amazing brother.
Patricia Fripp & Her Brother, Legendary Guitarist Robert Fripp Co-Presenting a Keynote
Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE – Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker & Executive Speech Coach
Frequently I am asked if executives should dumb down their communications.No, not necessarily. The Patricia Fripp suggestion is to speak conversationally. If you would use that word or phrase at the dinner table, or in your boardroom include it in your speech or conversation. However, you must also consider whether you sound original and thoughtful.
When you speak to business and professional speakers and Toastmasters, as I do, about public speaking and advanced presentation techniques, it is assumed that you will be quoted. In fact, I encourage the best way to learn a public speaking technique or idea is to teach someone else what you think you just learned.
However, there is a big difference between giving credit to the speaker you learned from and sharing the information and adding your own twist or experience…compared to…speaking, writing, publishing, blogging and recording the ideas of others with no mention where you learned…or who created the ideas, explanations or power phrases. Especially if they are printed somewhere with a copyright sign.
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