One of my favorite newsletters if from John Kinde in his Humor Power
His celebrity Humor quote is…
“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty,
there’s still a 30% chance we’re going to get it wrong.”
Joe Biden
Read More...How to Professionally Deliver an Acceptance Speech
7 Questions to Ask Yourself
Who nominated you?
Who invited you to join this group or encouraged you to get involved in this project or event?
What is your connection to this group?
How do you feel about the people and the organization’s goals?
Why are they giving you this award?
When was the first time you attended a meeting and what were your experiences?
Have you seen someone else accept this same award?
The audience will not remember all the details of what you say, but they will remember the stories you tell. Include a memorable vignette or incident, something entertaining or touching about your connection.
Honor the Audience
Read More...Persuasive Writing Sells Your Speech
One of my health and wellness experts is delivering a speech in January and asked my opinion about her copy. I have XXXed out her name.
Read More...Great Writing & Speaking Use Strong Verbs.
Business Writing, Presentation Skills, Communication expert, Dee Dukehart
Read More...Public Speaking Advice: Avoid Clichés Like the Plague
Have confidence in your own viewpoints. Tell your story on paper or record. Then go back and prune out any clichés that have crept in. Replace them with invigorating new phrases, forceful enough to make your message memorable and your audience riveted.
Read More...Help I Have to Give a Speech! DVD sample from THE Executive Speech Coach
Bob Chesney of Chesney Communications has been working on amazing new video clips to promote some of my best selling Presentation Skills Training DVDs. Bob helped me create these as well. Bob has also helped me prepare new video clips for my virtual office. Stay tuned for more online training programs from Patricia Fripp.
Read More...Carol Channing, Rich Little, Steve Rossi. Conversation at its best!
What an afternoon! San Francisco’s Carol Channing, internationally acclaimed star of stage and screen, joins inimitable entertainer Rich Little, and hilarious stand-up comic and actor Steve Rossi. Wow…what a show. They were all so happy to be together they were interviewing each other. Robert Strong who is a star in his own right is the […]
Read More...Public Speaking: How to Bring Your Characters to Life
5. We bring our characters to life through some of the verbs we use.
Fred casually sauntered into the boss’s office VS Fred rushed breathless into the boss’s office. Please note I am taking a lesson from the brilliant Mark Brown who taught us in a recent EDGE lesson about the importance of adjectives and adverbs.
Got Stress? Laugh More: THE Executive Speech Coach & Comedy Legend
My World Champions Edge partner Mark Brown came as a guest presenter. Rich Hart, the smart program chair put Mark on the program. He spoke about 2 secret speaking weapons. Adjectives and adverbs. Mark is the 1995 Toastmasters International World Champion.
Read More...THE Executive Speech Coach: To Edit or To Add?
On the topic of the verb “to edit,” I found the following explanation in today’s Word-a-Day bulletin indicating that when one edits one actually gives — and thought of you:
“Which came first, editor or edit?”
