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.
Ever Wondered How to Open Your Presentation with Impact?
This is how I opened my keynote presentation for District 12 Toastmasters Spring conference.
Patricia Fripp keynote speaker and executive speech coach
“In July 1978 at the Galt House Hotel in Louville, KY at my second NSA convention Dr. Kenneth McFarland who was considered the Dean of all American speakers and the person we all wished to emulate said, “Say something of interest to you and your audience. Say it well and stop. Your audience should be able to answer two questions. What are you saying and how do you know it.”
The purpose the opening remarks of a speech is to grab the interest of the audience. There were many speakers in attendance who are very familiar with my presentations. As this is a new way for me to open they would think “Here is something I have not heard from Fripp…goodie!”
For many who where there as a result of marketing proclaiming I was the world’s best speech coach (not a claim I made myself) perhaps they were thinking “Wow she has been studying speaking for a long time,” or “Maybe she will be a good as they said.”
There are many techniques to open a presentation: a statement, a story, a quote, a question, a rhetorical question, your conclusion or an interesting statistic or little known fact.
Fripp Virtual Training is a state-of-the-art web-based training platform that emulates live training and coaching. It is as if Presentation Expert and Executive Speech Coach, Patricia Fripp were sitting in front of 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.
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.
Are you confident that your sales presentations are powerful, professional, polished, and focused on the needs of your prospects and clients? Can your competitors match your references, results and reputation? Could you benefit from a competitive edge?
Do you realize that when everything else seems equal a powerful, persuasive sales presentation can give you an almost unfair advantage? When your presentation has a strong structure, tight scripting, high specificity, success stories, an emotional and intellectual connection to your prospects your chances of successfully creating a new long-term relationship increase.
Welcome to the Patricia Fripp’s Powerful, Persuasive Sales Presentations Coaching Camp.
This is not a class of just sales theory. This is an intimate coaching camp where you come well prepared, are on your feet delivering your most compelling message. Your content, wording and delivery will be improved, polished, and videoed from your review.
You will be coached by sales presentation skills expert Patricia Fripp and her associate World Champion of Public Speaking Darren LaCroix.
In advance of the two days you will attend a webinar where Patricia Fripp who introduces you to the principles and techniques that will take your sales presentation from Good to Great to Awesome. Imagine what you will gain for a relatively small investment in high-level, sales presentation skills training from Patricia.
You will learn how to and be coached on:
Understanding the three simple, but necessary, parts to every effective presentation
Structuring your presentation focused on the prospect’s need.
Opening and closing your presentations with impact.
Taking your satisfied clients with you through memorable stories.
Speaking to be remembered and repeated… for all the right reasons.
Utilizing the Fripp Presentation Organization Tool for every presentation
Connecting to improve listener buy-in for your point of view
Even as an expert in business communications I constantly learn from my friends and mentors in the National Speakers Association. Don and Kathleen Thoren write, speak and coaching on Life Enriching Tips. Enjoy….
WHAT DO I SAY NOW?!
Has someone said something and you weren’t sure what to say back??? Seconds tick by and your mind screams, “What do I say now?!” or “Why did I say that?!”
My wife, Kathleen, taught me to say, with curiousity, “Isn’t that interesting” and then…STOP TALKING. The beauty of this neutral comment is that it turns the conversation back to the other person and…
Don Thoren, CPAE, & Kathleen Thoren, MA
Gives you a chance to think
Gives you an immediate response, but you haven’t really said anything or expressed an opinion yet.
Gives you a chance to change the way you are listening from a JUDGE OF what was said to an INVESTIGATOR INTO what they meant.
It’s best to ask questions to gain understanding when you are not sure how to respond. However, avoid the “why” question, as it is often received as argumentative. Now, you have your best chance of feeling comfortable with what you say back.
Don Thoren, CPAE, Speaker Hall of Fame, Seasoned Consultant, Mentor & Trainer
Would you like Patricia Fripp as your personal speech coach 24/7?
“I wanted a super bowl-quality coach, and I was lucky to be introduced to Patricia Fripp. Her help in coaching and scripting was world class. With Patricia Fripp on your team, you can go places.”
– Don Yaeger, Long-Time Associate Editor for Sports Illustrated magazine, Award-Winning Keynote Speaker, New York Times Best-Selling Author
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.
As an executive speech coach and frequent presenter on “How to Go From Good to Great to Awesome” I was interested and amused by this article from Ragan.com. Ragan first came to my attention when they booked me to speak at the Ragan Speechwriters Conference. Their newsletters are always amazing.
As a long time professional speaker, speech coach, and someone who advises other professional speakers on what they can charge, I thought it was a good idea to check with Mike Frank. Mike is the president of Speakers Unlimited.
Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE – Speech Coach & Hall of Fame Professional Keynote Speaker
Frank On Fees by Mike Frank
I’m a big believer in setting a fee structure and sticking with it 99 percent of the time. If you’re doing chambers of commerce programs in your home state and start charging different fees from one chamber to another, it’s going to get back to you—if not haunt you.
As an executive speech coach I am sometimes asked, “How do I handle distractions?” Ringing cell phones and computer crashes can challenge anyone delivering a presentation. My friend Rob Sherman wrote this helpful article.
How to Deal with Distractions by Rob Sherman
Presentation distractions are inevitable. You can’t avoid them. These unplanned events that divert the attention of the audience from your message come in all shapes and sizes …from the merely annoying (a cell phone rings) to the potentially more destructive (your laptop crashes).
Executive Speech Coach and Award-Winning Keynote Speaker, Patricia Fripp at Lady & The Champs Speakers’ Conference
How do you prepare for these inevitable presentation distractions? Follow these simple rules and you can handle most unplanned occurrences.
Want to Improve Your Presentation Skills? Learn from Hollywood Actor and Speaker
Bob Roitblat presents Hollywood techniques for better professional speaking.
Last week I was speaking for the National Speakers Association Illinois. What a great group and one of my news friends is Bob Roitblat. If you are a regular reader you know I love learning from Hollywood friends and classes.
Look-turn-speak is a technique borrowed from acting that professional speakers and business presenters can take advantage of in two ways. The first is a way to better engage your audience and here’s how it works:
Who knew? Wow, I was looking at my retweets and saw at least in Evan Carmichael’s opinion I am one of the top 100 Top Leadership Experts to Follow on Twitter. Even though I have slipped a couple of places from last year I feel pretty good.
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How to Present and Teach in the Virtual World…and More
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Fripp Virtual Training is a state-of-the-art web-based training platform that emulates live training and coaching. It is as if Presentation Expert and Executive Speech Coach, Patricia Fripp were sitting in front of 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.
