As David Garfinkel said, “We have to populate our stories with flesh and blood characters the audience can relate to.”
Read More...Hollywood Ideas for Presentation Skills
Who do you have on your side to help you with your presentation skills and public speaking? THE Executive Speech Coach Patricia Fripp can help.
Patricia Fripp adds Hollywood to Presentation Skills
How to improve your presentation skills: Notes from PR thoughtleader
Keepers from Patricia Fripp’s Speaking School
Points of wisdom from Patricia Fripp’s Speaking School in no particular order:
• It is better to be consistently good than occasionally great.
• Our goal is to speak to be remembered and repeated. To do that use short sentences, or speak in phrases.
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• Use personal stories.
• A good speech is not a conversation, but a good speech is conversational.
• In a speech we need to be more clear and concise and uses more specific words.
For example: Not “a bunch of business cards” rather “a handful of business cards.”
• To develop content, mine your life for turning points and influences. What do your friends laugh about at the dinner table?
Review your life story, where was the conflict?
What was your decision? What did you discover? (Max Dixon’s advice)
• To emotionally connect with your audience don’t say, “I’m going to tell you.” Instead say, “You are going to learn.” Or “You will hear.” Or “You will experience.”
• Use specific words because they create pictures in a person’s mind and makes you sound more intelligent and well educated.
• Before you close review your presentation by asking a rhetorical question that relates to your central theme or what Patricia calls your premise.
• Within the presentation ask audience to summarize what ideas they have learned or been reminded of. This is called “an internal review.”
Read More...Public Speaking: Are Your Characters Captivating?
Here’s a Frippercize: Count how many characters appear in your speeches. They are what make a Hollywood production–flesh and blood personalities that the audience can relate to.
Read More...Want to Make Your Webinars More Exciting?
Be creative. Think Hollywood! Tell stories and give examples as you go through your program, the same way you would in person. However, your Webinar needs more visuals to help engage the audience. Use more slides than with an in-person presentation. Add bullet points one at a time as you “build.” Don’t present a list of all your points before you discuss them. Keep it simple, keep it moving, and interact often.
Read More...Turn them off on your Intro and you’ll never get them back
Put your impressive credits right up front. If you don’t have credits yet, find something that could impress the audience even if it’s from another field or your mother.
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 […]
Read More...The Best Advice for Public Speakers
In February World Champions Edge (my public speaking coaching community) held our convention Lady and the Champs. Five keynote speeches and fifteen breakout sessions delivered by four World Champion speakers and yours truly Patricia Fripp. By Saturday April 20 you can invest in the downloads for $147. You owe it to yourself to at least click the link!
Read More...Um, Uh, Like Call in The Speech Coach Patricia Fripp
Speech is the way a small business builds its brand, establishes expertise, gets free publicity and gets in front of its market.
R. W. Armstrong & Associates, a civil engineering project management company in Indianapolis, first hired a speaker trainer Patricia Fripp to help prepare it for a pitch worth millions of dollars. The company went in as the underdog but clinched the deal after working on timing, learning how to use descriptive words, introduce co-workers and present itself with poise and cohesion, said Donna Gadient, director for human resources. She said the company paid about $8,000 to $10,000 for a day of training for 25 people and that the guidance continues to help employees speak on their feet.
Read More...Lessons That Help Public Speakers from Justin Bieber
Patricia Fripp & Darren LaCroix April 8-10 Vegas Speech Coaching Camp Maybe you won’t sell out Madison Square Garden in 22 minutes, but you can learn from Justin’s example. You can get more people to know you and your expertise and get invited to speak more often at higher fees. You may very well take away different messages and lessons from this movie than I did. I think it’s a pretty good movie with lessons for people who want to be better on the platform and/or build their speaking business
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