Clarifying Your Central Theme or Premise (Part 2) Your first step in creating your speech structure is to answer this question: “Based on my subject, what is my premise or central theme?” This is the big idea you want to get across. Every TV show, movie, and book has a clear premise. So does your […]
Read More...A Great First Step for You to Structure Your Presentation
“A strong presentation structure gives you the freedom to be creative.” Patricia Fripp This is how you organize your presentation with a logical flow. (Part one) It will be easy for both you and your audience to remember with minimal or no notes. The more you work on clarifying your content, organizing your structure, then […]
Read More...A Great Way to Arouse Interest in Your Presentation
Hollywood Knows How to Connect Emotionally with an Audience Just as speakers, sales professionals, and leaders have to. A cast of colorful characters works in front of and behind the camera to make a movie, a movie that has the power to transport us into the future or show us life as it might once […]
Read More...Want to Get Promoted? Here is One of the Secrets
If you do not enjoy the position, salary, or respect your feel you deserve, I recommend you dress and speak for the role you aspire to, not the one you now have. When I was growing up, my mother gave me great advice. She said, “Patricia, of course, it is the inner you that is […]
Read More...It Is Not Only What You Say; It Is Also How You Say It
When you have created your presentation you are only halfway there. You need to internalize your new way of presenting and make it second nature. When you deliver your presentation, you want to be able to focus on the audience, not your performance. Build rehearsal into your everyday life. You will never be able to […]
Read More...Done NSA Want to Learn Three Secrets that Make a Good Presentation Great?
National Speakers Association webinar conducted by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE Be a Better Speaker series Kick-Off event. NSA offers this event to members and non-members at no charge. Want to Learn Three Secrets that Make a Good Presentation Great? You are invited to an action-packed, content-rich, advanced presentation skills event with Patricia Fripp. Our focus […]
Read More...The Number 1 Way to Make Your Sales Conversations Successful
It is not your client’s job to remember you. It is your responsibility to make sure you are unforgettable. Here is a great action step to take. Call your five best clients, those whom you currently use as references. Even if you leave a voicemail, say “Bob, I never get tired of telling the story […]
Read More...How Do You Learn to Serve Others?
In 2000 the TV show 60 Minutes spent five days at the National Speakers Association convention. I was one of many interviewed and one of the few not left on the cutting room floor. Yea! They asked me the question you may be wondering, “Patricia, you used to be a hairstylist; now you are a motivational speaker. […]
Read More...Make More Sales More Often
With the Right Sales Presentations, You Can! Developing good public speaking skills helps you make more sales more often. To sell you need technical skills, product knowledge, know the details of you compared to your competition, territory management, a good relationship management system, discipline, and self-management. However, that is not enough. Too often the best […]
Read More...Where Confidence Comes From – Will’s Story
Boost Your Confidence and Credibility Developing good public speaking skills will boost your confidence in front of your senior management. Will is a Staff Performance Engineer with a large technology company in Silicon Valley. Like many brilliant technical experts, they invest years developing their skills and suddenly find themselves pushed more into the spotlight. Will […]
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