Darren LaCroix & Patricia Fripp give you their best speaking advice & coaching.My great speech coach Ron Arden who had enjoyed a successful acting and directly career always told his students “Public speakers need variety in their presentation just as we do in the theatre. The enemy of the speaker is sameness.”
My World Champions Edge buddy Ed Tate sent this review to me from a TV blog. Sameness does not work in singing and TV.
By Carla Patton, BuddyTV
“This week, the top 8 performed songs from the 1980s. And, unlike in weeks past, there was a clear division of talent. Some people were amazing. Some failed to live up to ghosts of performances past. And some contestants sounded just too much like previous performances. Phillip Phillips is becoming a notable offender of sounds-the-same syndrome. The big question on this night is: Who will go home? Or will the judges use the Save? I think the real problem at hand is that no one sang a Hall and Oates song. Maybe they’re saving that for an entire Hall and Oates-themed week! In my dreams.”
Perhaps you need variety in your life, relationships and hobbies?
For something totally different on April 18, my birthday, after attending the Golden Gate Breakfast Club, my pals and I are going to Alcatraz. I don’t know about you, but I love being a tourist in my own home town.
If you are a public speaker every experience is content for a speech.
Then of course you need to learn to masterfully tell your story.
In that case you can benefit from Darren LaCroix and Patricia Fripp’sStructure and Story and Coaching Champ Camp in Las Vegas in June.
You can listen to one of my interviews with Ron Arden on my FREE podcasts.
If you are a leader, manager, executive, professional speaker, Toastmaster, or ambitious professional, most likely you will have the opportunity to moderate a panel.
If you believe there is nothing duller than a bad speech, may I suggest a dull panel is even worst? As with any great presentation, when opening a panel discussion, the moderator has the responsibility to set the tone.
These three techniques will help you turn a simple story into a great way to set the tone for your panel.
Think chronologically.
Use shorter sentences or phrases.
Consider each visual scene.
One January, Mark, a district sales manager from a biotech company, was preparing to moderate a panel at the Las Vegas National Sales Meeting. He was nervous about his new role in front of the 100-person audience. In our pre-coaching communications, I noticed his email signature line included a quote about “moving fast.”
He explained, “In my new role I am “moving fast” to understand new products, clients, and products. This panel’s task is to encourage the audience of colleagues to embrace new jobs in different areas. When they accept the challenge they will have to move fast to get up to speed.”
Mark did not have any idea how to set the tone for the meeting. I asked, “What experience do you have with Las Vegas?”
Mark said, “After last year’s sales meeting, my wife Tammy came in for the weekend. We went to see David Copperfield, and he made her disappear.” As an executive speech coach, this is just what I was looking for.
The Frippnotized version was very easy for Mark to remember, and it incorporated the three techniques.
Expert Advice: I recommend that you write your script with one short sentence or phrase going down the page not across as in a paragraph. In your rehearsal, this makes it easier for you to internalize.
“After last year’s sales meeting,
my wife Tammy came in for the weekend.
We went to see David Copperfield’s magic show.
Three-quarters of the way through his performance, Copperfield threw two dozen balls into the audience.
Patricia Fripp moderating a panel. She can teach you how.
Tammy caught one.
David said, “If you touched a ball, please come on the stage.”
He seated 24 people on bleachers and covered them with a tarp.
Whoosh! Five seconds later, they were gone!
Suddenly they appeared at the back of the room.
On the way out I asked Tammy, “How did he do it?”
She said, “We are sworn to secrecy. However, we did have to move really fast!”
Remember, the sales meeting was in Las Vegas, and Mark’s theme incorporated the importance of moving fast.
He said, “The panel was a wild success, and everyone raved about my opening story!”
If you find yourself with the opportunity to moderate a panel. I challenge you to find a short relevant story to set the tone.
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– 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 Speaker Patricia Fripp works with individuals and companies who realize that powerful, persuasive presentation skills give them a competitive edge.
Observational humorist John KindePatricia Fripp using John Kinde humor techniques
Are your presentations lacking humor?
The late John Kinde is remembered as a comedy mentor for many. Know for his skill with observational humor claimed his most frequently-asked question was, “How do I get to be funny?”
After delivering a fun-filled, brilliantly-crafted presentation, an audience member referred to his Observational Humor monologue. “You certainly have the gift of humor.” John’s response: “For me, the skill is 100% learned.”
A frequently asked question on public speaking is “How Do I Organize My Speech?”
Here is a basic outline that work well for the beginning speaker.
1. THE PAST-PRESENT-JOURNEY FORMAT: This simple outline can help you tell the audience who you are and why you are qualified to speak on the topic you’ve chosen.
Las Vegas observationalist humorist John Kinde looks behind the Gervais humor at Golden Globes.
All public speakers want to be funnier. We can learn from the masters who make us laugh and humor experts like John Kinde who teach us the techniques behind what they say. This was first published in my favorite ezine Humor Power check it out for yourself.
Gervais Humor at Golden Globes
When a comedian hosts an awards show, you can expect some roast-style humor. That’s why they hire the comic. A roast structure creates a vehicle to ensure the success of the jokes which follow. Before you start firing jokes at people in the audience, you need permission. This is usually received by making fun of yourself, which gives you permission to make fun of the boss or authority figures, which gives you permission to make fun of the honored guests.
Last night Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globe Awards for the third year. Some people were surprised he was chosen as this year’s emcee because many thought he was over-the-top offensive last year. But in his pre-show appearances, he made it clear that he was going to do some sharply-pointed humor this year, too. The anticipation of what he was going to say helped build the tension, which is an important trigger for humor.
Here are some bits from his monologue (not the whole monologue) and some observations:
So where was I?
(A transition from last year’s performance to this year’s. Sets the stage for “more of the same.”)
Nervous? Don’t be. This isn’t about you.
(He will start primarily with jokes about the sponsor of the event and himself.)
Hello, I’m Ricky Gervais and welcome to the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Voted for by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
(His formal opening lines establish the fact that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was an authority figure, a fact which may not have been well-known to the television viewing audience.)
Tonight you get Britain’s biggest comedian, hosting the world’s second biggest awards show on America’s third biggest network.
(Uses the rule of three. Pokes fun at the host network.)
Are you losing sales you feel you deserve to make? Perhaps you are making one or all of the most common, biggest mistakes of sales professionals!
Hope you can benefit from the advice from one of my sessions at Lady and the Champs How to Speaking Conference February 25- 26 in Las Vegas. Thought you would enjoy a sneak preview of what we will be discussing. The ideas apply no matter what you are selling.
Would it be helpful if your prospect remembered what you said?
Here are the most common mistakes that my sales clients are making at the beginning of our coaching sessions. By the time we’re through, they’ve learned how to avoid them.
Thanking prospects for their time instead of thanking them for the opportunity to discuss doing business.
Using a flawed conversation or speech structure. Focusing on your company history instead of how you can discover or solve the client’s problems.
Sales Psychology from Harvey Mackay from his new book
The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World
A great salesperson is a hungry fighter – someone who is committed to action and results: An average salesperson tells. A good salesperson explains . . . and a great salesperson demonstrates.
Integrity is the backbone of sales. Honesty is the best policy even when it has a high premium. Today’s Internet world is too transparent to be anything other than absolutely honest.
You have to like selling to succeed at it. Success, after all, is doing what we like and making a living at it. Work isn’t work if you like it. And, success is a journey not a destination.
Every business needs a cost-effective way to keep their name, their products or their services in front of their prospects and customers. For many business owners, publicity is the key to such recognition and awareness. When done correctly, publicity develops your name recognition, gives your business instant credibility, and ultimately leads to increased sales. And best of all, publicity is absolutely free.
I am often asked what fee CEO’s and business executives should charge. Many have expertise, or have run a good business, and would like to gain national media attention and exposure. Recently I was asked, ” Is there a national list or organization that posts that type of info? “
Anytime you’re giving a speech, always remember it’s a conversation. Sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking we’re presenting a monologue. It’s easy to think of a speaker as the vehicle delivering a load of wisdom. In reality, every speech is a conversation. A two-way conversation with the audience.
It’s important to remember that this dialogue is not with the audience as a group, but rather a one-on-one conversation with each person. You’re speaking individually to each person in the audience. For example, you’re making eye contact with one person at a time. When you find your self mechanically spraying the audience with eye contact, you are actually NOT making eye contact with anyone.
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