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.
The chapter has someone picking me up at the airport. Naturally I Googled who it was.
WOW!!! As my favorite activity is having interesting conversations with interesting people you can image how excited I am to find out who my driver is…
Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE – Hall of Fame Professional Speaker, & Executive Speech Coach
Here is your public speaking lesson for the day… Edit your speech to a nub.
Edit out the words that have no meaning. For example, if you say, “Each and every one of you in this room…” you are using nine words when you should just use one. Just say, “You.”
When you go out and speak to a group or conduct a workshop, you want to make a connection with your audience. It’s equally important to the success of your presentation that they connect with one another, especially in a more intimate setting.
What would it mean to you and your career if you understood the techniques that guaranteed every time you stood up to speak you were powerful and persuasive?
Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE – Executive Speech Coach & Award-Winning Keynote Speaker at Lady and The Champs Speakers’ Conference
Where will you be on Saturday, the 27th of April 2013? If you’re interested in improving your presentation skills and you’re anywhere near Chicago, and certainly if you’re part of District 30 Toastmasters, you will be at Skokie, Illinois Holiday Inn.
Keynote Speaker and Executive Speech Coach, Patricia Fripp
I was a hairstylist for 24 years and as I said on 60 Minutes – and if you’re on 60 Minutes you’ll tell everybody – “I used to work on the outside of peoples’ heads, now I work on the inside, so there’s only half an inch difference.”
Is this is the year that you are going to dramatically increase your sales? If so, you need to emotionally and intellectually connect with your audience – be it one, five, 50 or 500. Think of it this way – logic makes us think. People will not invest a large amount of money unless it makes logical, analytical sense. However, emotion makes us act. When you can emotionally connect with your audience you have a competitive edge.
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