Name the three best speakers you know.
Are *you* on your list? If not, are those other speakers better than you?
If you ask your clients to name the three best speakers they’ve had at their meetings, are you on *their* list?
Top speakers are continually looking for ways to be even better, to have more impact, and they have learned to look to show business performers for clues and techniques.
How do the skills of master performers translate to speakers? What do Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, and Jerry Seinfeld do in their performances that you can apply to your presentations?
Bill Stainton has won numerous Emmy awards. He knows what comedy and TV stars do to stay on top, and he’s going to share that knowledge with us.
Virtually all of the speakers who are making serious money in the speaking business have one thing in common: they are amazing on the platform! Everything else springs from that: referrals, spin-offs, product sales — everything. If you want to make it — really make it — as a speaker, you have to be as good as, or better than, the best. Bill will share the secrets he’s learned from the people who have really made it in comedy and television, and translate those secrets directly to the world of speaking.
You will learn:
• How to structure your presentation for maximum engagement
• How to utilize predictable unpredictability to keep your audiences awake and interested
• A simple rule to help you plan your openings and closings
• How to use the secrets of comedy writers to make your speeches and stories come alive
• How to rehearse properly (most speakers don’t!) to set you apart from the competition
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PowerPoint problems run rampant in presentations, from busy, overdone slides that are impossible to read to poor usage where the speaker talks to the slide or blocks the screen. While there are lots of ways to improve slide quality and enhance PowerPoint usage, there is one little known, but powerful, strategy that can improve any PowerPoint presentation and put the focus more on the speaker, where it belongs.
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How do you make your presentation more interesting to your audience? Perhaps the most important technique is to include them when you speak. You can choose your words to engage your listeners — or leave them out. If you leave them out, boredom is the probable result. In this article, I'll give you some specific techniques for crafting your content in a way that grabs the attention of your audience.
My last tip was about being deliberate about creating an image.
The most powerful choice you will make is how you get that image to support your message – how you
put the two together.
It may be totally supportive, in that the image is unobtrusive; seamlessly part of the message and the complete package – an incredibly effective combination.
Or you may choose to create an edge, a mystique.
Your body language, your facial expression and gestures, your clothes and your grooming all need to work towards the impact you choose to make. And they will contribute as powerfully to the impact you choose to make as a person as they do to the impact you choose for your presentation to make.
This package, this combination of impact, message and image are what people take away from your
presentation. They are the wow you create. But the pivotal word, there, was “choose” – the impact you choose to make, the impact you choose for your presentation to make.
Whatever you may be trying to achieve, don’t let the impact of your presentation be an accident. Right from
the beginning, it needs to be part of the planning. When you are visualizing your production, toying with ideas
and possibilities and first drafts, make the impact of you as a person and of your performance an integral part of that process. Visualise it and work it into all aspects of your production planning.
Then you have the foundation for creating the “wow” factor.
Make Every Word Count
with Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE
Great speakers know how to make their presentations remembered and repeated. They craft their comments for the greatest impact. They edit to ensure they get their point across without being verbose and diluting the significance.
Many speakers use too many words and details, thereby reducing their influence. Do you say more than you need to? If so, how can you come across authentic, yet crisp? Notable, not forgettable. Memorable, not mediocre.
Patricia Fripp is the Queen of Succinct. Frippy equals pithy. Patricia believes a good speech is not a conversation. However, it needs to sound natural, not stiff, canned, or over-rehearsed. Listen in to what she means!
Hear Frippy’s best practices from 30 years of studying speaking skills.
You will learn to:
• Make your comments more specific and better edited
• Speak visually and with verbal punctuation
• Add impact with advice with high-price speech coaches
• Get your message remembered and repeated
• Fall in love with your content all over again.
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How you deliver your speech is even more important than the content of your speech. The way you use your voice during a presentation will either grab and keep your audience's attention or put them to sleep.
It is estimated that when a voice-trained person delivers a speech, the audience retains 83 per cent of the information. In contrast, when an untrained person delivers the same speech the audience will only retain 45 per cent of the information.
An interesting voice will have a varied pitch and variations in pace and volume. A speech which is delivered in a monotonous voice is very dull indeed for the audience.
There are various characteristics that alter a person's speech, such as clarity, volume, pitch, tone and speed of delivery. Let's look at those characteristics now. => http://bit.ly/gjseYw
When making a speech or presentation, a typical speaker usually has a number of tools to help convey their message. He or she may rely on laptops, projectors, PA systems, and so on, all in an effort to enhance the ability to communicate. The best speaking tools, however, can't be found in electronic shops or purchased online. The greatest speaking tools are actually within the person speaking. Let's take a look at three of these speaking tools, which you can also use yourself.
Knowledge Diversity
Knowing a little about things from various areas of discipline is a good speaking tool. A broad knowledge base allows speakers to connect their topics with concepts from other fields. In addition, using some ideas from varied fields can help establish the topic's place within the body of knowledge, allowing deeper understanding for the audience. You can develop this speaking tool by reading literature from different, genres, areas of study, or level or expertise outside of your field.
Interaction
Another indispensable speaking tool is the ability to conduct dynamic discussions. Here, the audience members become active participants, not just passive onlookers. Interaction also helps identify how much the audience has understood the topic. Ask your audience questions that make them think, not just simply recall. Ask them what portion of your speech that are left unclear to them. Most of the time, the best way to make your audience understand what you are talking about is to tell a story. Also, let your audience ask questions and be sure to correctly answer them as well.
Familiarity and Mastery
A speaker's mastery of his or her material is one of the most important speaking tools. Having good command of your topic improves credibility and audience impact. Without this, the whole speech or presentation ceases to exist, and what follows is just a recitation or reading of cue cards. You can develop this speaking tool through proper preparation. You do not need to have a Ph. D. in something just to talk about it; all you have to do is internalize the material well before schedule. It is important to understand-not memorize-the topic.
There you have it, three essential tools that every successful speaker needs. It really helps to have them available, sharpened, and polished when needed. Don't worry about having the best equipment money can buy. The greatest speaking tools can and should be within you.
Author: Tamar Peters has over 23 years experience in the events and promotions industry and her passion to help as many people as possible to find financial freedom through knowledge, education and inspiration. Her main focus as part of Top Speaker Events is to deliver the highest standard speakers who offer real life changing content, opportunities and knowledge from all over the world.
All you'll ever need to know about the enjoyment, appreciation and art of performance humor. Patricia Fripp with Larry Wilde. Larry made publishing history as the author of the most popular humor series of all time. His 53 books have sold more than 12 million copies. The New York Times called him "America's best-selling humorist."
In this one-of-a-kind album, you will learn the inside secrets of America's greatest comedians ... you can hear the collective wisdom of the people who defined American comedy. For the first time, you will learn the most fascinating, interesting, inside stories about how Larry convinced the great comedians to share their never-before-revealed views on making people laugh. => http://bit.ly/bQQFTS
From the Pivotal Network Newsletter:
Ensure your that audience is engaged and understands the ideas you are putting forward
By Fiona Collie
An engaging seminar presentation can be a powerful tool for building relationships with clients and prospects.
A successful presentation needs more than just great information, says Lisa Braithwaite, a public-speaking coach in Santa Barbara, Calif. “People want to relate to you,” she says. “They want to be able to trust you and they want to be able to have a relationship with you.”
To gain that trust and build relationships, follow these public-speaking tips:
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