Your Structure
Can you write the premise or objective of your talk in one sentence? If not, the chances are that your thinking isn’t clear enough for the audience to understand your purpose. And if you don’t organize your material so the audience can remember it easily, they’ll have a hard time grasping your message. They may be dazzled by your pizzazz and laugh at your stories, but little will stay with them afterwards.

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John Kinde has fun with Patricia Fripp at the NSA Las Vegas. Here is a brief bit Observational Humor I used as an opening remark at the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Speakers Association.  Patricia Fripp was the featured speaker presenting a full-day program.  Her program included individual coaching of audience members presenting speech […]

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In a conversation with Kim Snider, brilliant financial adviser from Dallas, she mentioned,” On February 18, 2009, the WSJ asked eminent economists, including some Nobel Prize Winners, “How do you think Americans should spend their $8 a week of stimulus money to have the biggest impact?” Robert Shiller, of Yale, summed up many of their […]

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My brother Robert Fripp and his wife Toyah Willcox are performing for the President of Estonia as part of their celebration of their independence. Meanwhile I am in Milwaukee speaking with Heartland Advisers. Great company! They were recognized in August 2008 as a “Top Milwaukee Workplace” by The Business Journal…and their 50 employees. As part of […]

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