My friend and colleague Sims Wyeth shares these thoughts on rehearsal to help you improve your presentations: You have a cerebral cortex for learning your new presentation. As you rehearse, you gradually transfer control of the presentation to another area of the brain, your cerebellum, which specializes in orchestrating the lightning fast motor activation needed […]
Read More...Sales Presentations: Are you making these mistakes?
Readers tell me they enjoy my website, and keep coming back, because of the free advice they find. This is presented in my blog, my free articles on public speaking, sales presentations, customer service and leadership. If you have not downloaded my 11 Mistakes Salespeople Make in Their Presentations…click now!
Read More...Executive speech coach’s 15 techniques to present on line
Executive speech coach's 15 techniques to present online. As corporate training budgets are reduced Webinars are being more and more popular.My Fripp Associate Tom Drews is an expert in presenting online and through Webinars. He is the go-to guy with Fripp clients need to learn the RIGHT way to engage an audience when they are […]
Read More...Getting Paid to Speak by Next Week: Your first engagements
Getting paid to speak by next week: how do you get your first engagements?Then, once you are getting booked how do you get invited back?These were the topics on my event with Darren LaCroix. Do you dream of becoming a professional speaker? Do you want to get paid for your talks? Do you want to […]
Read More...Speaking techniques we can learn from Hollywood!
Jacqueline Male, Commercial Director, Top Sales Associates wrote Patricia Fripp’s “What Hollywood Taught Me” details now appear on Top 10 Sales Articles including links back to both your site, and the publishing site. You will also notice that we have a public poll, which allows our readers to select their favorit nomination – votes account for […]
Read More...Presentation Skills Tips form Jim Cathcart: Confident Communication
What a great day April 1 has been! This morning I presented at the Golden Gate Breakfast Club.This was the first group I spoke to in 1976 outside of the hairstyling industry. In 2000 I became their first female member. The speech was "Tales from Strangers in Hotel Rooms: It is Not a Conversation it […]
Read More...Presentation Skills Training & Advice: Fripp & Hall of Fame Jim Cathcart, Wed, Apr 1, 6pm PST
Fripp interviews speaking legend Jim Cathcart on the World Champions Edge monthly “Ask-the-Champs” Conference Call scheduled for WEDNESDAY, April 1st at 9pm Eastern / 8pm Central / 7pm Mountain / 6pm Pacific Time. From a debt collector in Arkansas… to a National Speakers Association President… to a Hall of Fame Speaker (like Fripp!) …to Toastmasters […]
Read More...Speak to Be Remembered and Repeated
“Speak to be remembered and repeated.” Isn’t that the goal of every communicator – to be remembered and repeated? This is a key idea I reinforce at every Fripp Speaking School. Actually, this is a key idea every time I have the opportunity to discuss speaking and presentation skills. Yes, it’s easier said than done. […]
Read More...Build Emotional Connection Through Eye Contact
Lady and the Champs Speaking Conference in February has early sign up until January 31, 2011. You can hear and learn from Patricia Fripp, Darren LaCroix, Ed Tate, Mark Brown & Craig Valentine.
Read More...Life Lessons From the Movie Stars and Hollywood – #2
There are many life lessons we can learn from movie stars and Hollywood. Set your own values. When I was 23, I became one of the first women in the new industry of men’s hairstyling. My boss, Jay Sebring, was the hairstylist to the stars. I would pick up the phone and find Steve McQueen […]
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