Your Important Presentations Will Improve When You… …improve your everyday casual conversations. In your presentations, you will not improve what you are not aware of. One excellent way to perfect your presentation is to record it and then listen carefully. This is more effective than simply looking over your written speech. Here are a few […]
Read More...Make Better Word Choices – Improve Your Presentation
Subtle changes can make an enormous difference in your public speaking. These are some of the inside secrets I share with my executive speech coaching clients. In analyzing your speech, look for ways to be clearer, sharper, and more eloquent. You can look over your script. However, I find that speakers can make major improvements […]
Read More...Upgrade The Caliber of Your Stories within Your Sales Presentations
Speeches and sales presentations are not memorable without fascinating stories. I want you to upgrade the caliber of your stories. Practice telling stories. Utilize what I call the “Hollywood Model” – character, dialogue, and dramatic lesson learned; which is, of course, that doing business with you is the best way to go.
Read More...Are You Using Stories to Enhance Your Presentation?
You often hear there is real power in telling true stories to a live audience. One frequently used strategy for using stories during a keynote speech is based on personal tales of triumph over adversity.
Read More...When Does Your Sales Presentation Start? A Sales Presentation Tip
Here is an important sales presentation tip I shared with Long & Foster, the largest real estate company in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. This is something that anyone giving a sales presentation should keep in mind.
Read More...Do You Want to Be A Popular Speaker?
Then here is some advice from Patricia Fripp, THE Executive Speech Coach Never waste your audience’s time with trivialities. I heard a speaker addressing a San Francisco audience. He started with how nice it was to be there, how great the weather was, and how he loves our restaurants. Who cares? I didn’t race across […]
Read More...You Want to Learn to Be a Better Speaker? Top Screenwriters Give You Ideas
The masters were Syd Field, John Truby, Linda Seger, Christopher Vogler, and Michael Hauge. Michael is a long-time friend of mine and will be at 2013 Lady and the Champs! You may not have heard of them, even though they’re each outstanding representatives of the industry we call Hollywood. They teach and coach screenwriters much […]
Read More...Do You Want to Appeal to Your Audience?
Darren LaCroix reminds all speakers to periodically ask ourselves if we are are “…appealing or appalling?”
Read More...Want to be an Effective Writer and Speaker? 30 Ways to Improve
Want to be an Effective Writer and Speaker? Patricia Fripp is a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, executive speech coach, sales presentation skills trainer and partern in World Champions Edge coaching community. Tried-and-true words and phrases are convenient, but they are also truly trying—as with clichés, when a writer or speaker relies too heavily on […]
Read More...Robert Fripp’s Approach to Nervousness in Performance
As a public speaker and executive speech coach I find there are many parallels between musical performance and public speaking. My question when attendees at my speaking schools tell me, “I am nervous when it comes to public speaking!” is, “Are you nervous because you are inexperienced and do not have a coach, mentor, or class […]
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