Improve Your Public Speaking: Have You Considered Collaborating?
Frippicism: It is difficult to be creative in isolation.
Hollywood Ideas for Presentation Skills
In Hollywood you have directors, producers, and cinematographers; casting directors, actors, stand-in, and stuntmen; composers, musicians, and musical directors; set designers, art directors, carpenters, and construction coordinators; sound mixers, lighting technicians, and camera operators; production designers, costume designers, and script supervisors; makeup artists, hairstylists, and prop masters; teleplay writers, production assistants, and boom operators; gaffers, key grips, best boy grips, dolly grips, and editors. Dozens of caterers because apparently an army marches on their stomach and so does Hollywood.
Read More...Every sales presentation is a missed or captured opportunity
Every sales conversation and presentation is a missed or captured opportunity. Which will your next one be?
Read More...How to improve your presentation skills: Notes from PR thoughtleader
There is nothing better than speaking and coaching professionals who pay for the seminar themselves, fly to another city to attend, and are in the room an hour early to network and get the seat of their choice! One of my good friends, associates, and collaborators and I have been learning from each other for years. It was exciting to see what Dan Janal had to say in this review notes to his community of loyal devotees! In case you are not familiar with Dan he is famous for getting his clients terrific results from PR.
Read More...Robert Fripp The House Where Music Lives.
My brother Robert Fripp is as brilliant a thinker, writer, speaker as he is a musician. When I read his on-line diary (that he insists is not a blog) I always think. The photos that he adds to personalize his life is wonderful Enjoy…
Read More...Words have power! Grammar Granny Dugan and Rex Harrison say “The French Don’t Care”
The French Don’t Care
“The French don’t care what you do, actually,” says Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, “as long as you pronounce it properly.”*
Public Speaking: Are Your Characters Captivating?
The late comedy impresario John Cantu knew that speakers mustn’t be the heroes of all their stories. Together, we analyzed one of his speeches and found sixty-two different people! Learn from great books, plays, and films. Fill your speech with exciting characters, real and imaginary.
Read More...Want to Make Your Webinars More Exciting?
Whenever you open your mouth, whether you’re talking to one person or a thousand, you want to get a specific message across. The stakes are higher when you present through webinars.
Anyone who sets out to present, persuade, and propel with the spoken word faces pitfalls. And, as technology and travel budgets play a more important part in our lives, you have yet another challenge: What do you do when you are communicating through a Webinar? What is different about a Webinar presentation? How do you catch and keep your audience? Here are some tips.
CONSIDER USING LOOPING SLIDES
As your audience tunes in, how do you make sure they are entertained and feel involved even before the event starts? The best way is with a series of Looping Slides. Looping Slides are a great way to convey important information and to keep attendees entertained while waiting for your presentation to begin.
These slides can communicate:
When the session will begin.
A photo, name, and title of the presenter.
What the audience is going to learn.
What to do in case of problems.
You may want to use quotes from the content they will be learning.
Turn them off on your Intro and you’ll never get them back
You may be familiar with the comedy legend Judy Carter. She wrote The Comedy Bible and her books helped my pal Darren LaCroix find his funny self and turn that skill into a great career. For years I have been hearing stories from dozens of others that say very much the same.
Read More...Powerful Presentations: Getting Off to a Good Start
Most speakers if they know their subject are not bad once they get going. However very few know how to get off to a really good start. My recommendation is that you script your opening. However, do not write in paragraphs. Write it as phrases down the page not across. As my early mentor Bill Gove taught me “Fripp, the written word is for the eye, the spoken word is for the rhythm.” As you rehearse preparing it this way makes it easier to get into your body.
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