You research, analyze and conclude. Then you have to present. It’s an oft-dreaded part of the curriculum, when classmates become critics and teachers seem poised to mark any “um” or “ah” off your presentation grade.
Read More...Public Speaking: Ways to engage with THE Executive Speech Coach
No matter what your budget if you are looking for public speaking and presention skills advice, tips or training Patricia Fripp can help you.You can find all the information on the content rich Patricia Fripp website.
Read More...Public Speaking Tips: Make the new familiar
To introduce a new idea, link it to something familiar. For instance, cars were first sold as horseless carriages, and Edison shaped the light bulb to resemble the flame of a gas lamp.
Read More...Public Speaking: How Did Patricia Fripp Get Started?
Q. When did you first start speaking? How long until speaking became your full-time job?
In 1976, when I was San Francisco’s #1 men’s hairstylist, I started delivering seminars to hairstylists for a hair product company called Markham. Through recommendations from my executive clients, Rotary Clubs and men’s breakfast clubs invited me to speak. Afterwards, the audience members often came into my salon. I quickly realized that this was an inexpensive way to promote my business.
Public Speaking Tips: Speak To Be Remembered and Repeated
Public Speaking Tips: Edit your sentences to a nub. Remember, Jerry Seinfeld said, “I will spend an hour taking an eight word sentence and making it five.” In comedy, the fewer the words between the set-up and the punch word, the bigger the laugh.
Read More...Powerful Public Speaking: Personal Connection Edge
• Bottom Line: Everything else being equal, you’re way ahead of any other speaker or sales professional when your audience of one or one thousand relates to you, likes you, and trusts you. Remember, they must first trust you before they can trust the message.
Read More...Selling Yourself And Your Ideas to Senior Management
Where to Start
1. What is the topic or subject you are reporting on? Be clear with yourself so you can be clear with your audience.
2. Why is your topic important enough to be on the busy agenda of senior level managers?
3. What questions will your audience be asking? Can you answer them early in your presentation?
Say It With Fewer Words
Reducing Your Hour-Long Speech You’ve got a great, major presentation, and suddenly you’re asked if you can get your message across in five minutes! Don’t panic. For today’s television generation, sound bites can be more powerful than lengthy dissertations. Here’s how to compress your speech without losing impact.
Read More...5 Sure-Fire Tips for Great Speeches
1. Come out punching! Grab your audience’s attention. One way is to make a startling statement. For a recent speech to the National Speakers Association, I walked out and immediately started building a word picture: “Columbus, Ohio, December, zero degrees, 2,000 people trudging through the snow to hear four speakers…” Don’t waste your audience’s time […]
Read More...Scoring with Overseas Audiences
How to “Speak Their Language” Even When It Isn’t English Now I finally know why my friends are so interested in speaking abroad. It is a wonderful, rewarding, exhilarating, ego-building experience, even when the audience doesn’t speak your language. Why forego local engagements to fly half-way around the world, suffer terrible jet lag, and put […]
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