Wow! What a great trip to Denver. 300 Competitive Edge members came to my effective sales presentation seminar “12 Mistakes Sales Professionals Make” and now I am working with Heather Lutze, author of The Findability Formula. She is the countries expert on Search Engine Marketing. Tune in again to hear the Fripp results!
I wish you could have been with us in Vegas. This is the second Lady & the Champs and I am sooooooooooo impressed with the Champs and the commitment of the audience members to improve.
This morning I delivered a new presentation on the value of; asking questions, interviewing friends and clients, and having a conversation around the structure of a speech.
The presentation started with a story I have only told once to an audience. However I helped a client develop it as he was President of Bunim Murray. The story is how Reality TV and The Real World show began.
The two words that all creative professionals have used through out time to solve their client's problems…
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What If…we all took advantage of all the tools World Champions Edge provides….?????
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Read More...Speechwriters Conference Closing Keynote – Ted Sorensen
Theodore C. Sorensen, special counsel, adviser and legendary speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy
In Ted Sorensen’s keynote he shared tips on speechwriting. He claims it is all a matter of writing ‘a few lines’:
1. Outline — used plan the speech.
2. Headline — what’s the news in the speech?
3. Front line — what’s the most important point?
4. Sidelines — quotes, poems or humor.
5. Bottom line — an ending the audience will remember.
He then lists the four features of a good speech:
1. Clarity – achieved if you have a good outline.
2. Charity – praise the audience.
3. Brevity – JFK believed anything worth saying can be covered in a 20 minute speech.
4. Levity – as evidenced by Kennedy’s ironic wit
My Fripp Associate Ian Griffin makes these great notes in his blog. Read more:
Read More...This week I am in Washington DC for the Ragan Speechwriters Conference. It is great to associates with people who write for Presidents of the United States and top corporate leaders. One of the other speakers who has me motivated to do more Podcasts is one of my Fripp Associates Ian Griffin. http://www.frippassociates.com
He is also President of the National Speakers Association of Northern California. I founded the group 30 years ago. http://www.nsanc.org
Here’s the link to Ian’s first blog posting with a video of Mike Long presenting morning on ‘Structure and Style’ http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2009/02/11/mike-long-better-structure-better-style/
Read More...My pal Jim Cathcart is one of my associates in Speakers Roundtable give us great advice for challenging times. Speakers Roundtable is a group of 20 of the best, in-demand professional speakers, executive speech coaches, and trainers: http://www.speakersroundtable.com
Rethinking: 10 Strategies for a Challenging Era
By Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE
“Speak to be remembered and repeated.” Isn’t that the goal of every communicator – to be remembered and repeated? This is a key idea I reinforce at every Fripp Speaking School. Actually, this is a key idea every time I have the opportunity to discuss speaking and presentation skills. Yes, it’s easier said than done. Here are a few strategies:
Read More...Executive speech coach and award-winning keynote speaker, Patricia Fripp is frequently asked, “What is the best way to engage an audience?” This is the advice she gave an attendee at her San Francisco Speaking School:
Read More...“The best way to engage an audience is to be prepared, personable, polished, practical, and profound.
How to Get Your Op-Ed Published
By Pam Lontos
While there are many ways to appear in the media, writing an op-ed piece is an excellent way to make yourself known and establish yourself as an authority with the public. Like letters to the editor, op-ed pieces should put forth a point of view – but the op-ed piece is longer than a letter and generally gets better play.
Op-ed stands for “opposite editorial,” referring to the page facing the editorial page – the page on which the newspaper publishes its own institutional statement of opinion.
Read More...Dear Visitor,
I found this blog item especially amusing because one of my favorite speaking engagements was addressing 350 Seventh Day Adventist ministers. The article was written by one of the most prolific writers and brilliant minds I have met, freelance speech writer Hal Gordon. I first met Hal when we were seated next to each other at the speaker’s dinner prior to my first Ragan Speechwriters Conference. You can imagine my excitement when Hal told me he used to write for Colin Powell and Ed Meese. He is now a popular speaker at speechwriter events. Giving him full credit and attribution, as well as my utmost respect, I thought you would this excerpt.
-Patricia Fripp
Written by Hal Gordon
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story on members of the clergy who buy sermons off the Internet. The Journal listed five websites that offer sermon ideas, and even entire transcripts, for modest fees. One of these sites, amusingly titled, desperatepreacher.com, offered this comforting quote of the day from Henry David Thoreau: “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life.”
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