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Public speakers “The enemy of the speaker is sameness”
Darren LaCroix & Patricia Fripp give you their best speaking advice & coaching.
My World Champions Edge buddy Ed Tate sent this review to me from a TV blog. Sameness does not work in singing and TV.
By Carla Patton, BuddyTV
“This week, the top 8 performed songs from the 1980s. And, unlike in weeks past, there was a clear division of talent. Some people were amazing. Some failed to live up to ghosts of performances past. And some contestants sounded just too much like previous performances. Phillip Phillips is becoming a notable offender of sounds-the-same syndrome. The big question on this night is: Who will go home? Or will the judges use the Save? I think the real problem at hand is that no one sang a Hall and Oates song. Maybe they’re saving that for an entire Hall and Oates-themed week! In my dreams.”
Perhaps you need variety in your life, relationships and hobbies?
For something totally different on April 18, my birthday, after attending the Golden Gate Breakfast Club, my pals and I are going to Alcatraz. I don’t know about you, but I love being a tourist in my own home town.
If you are a public speaker every experience is content for a speech.
Then of course you need to learn to masterfully tell your story.
In that case you can benefit from Darren LaCroix and Patricia Fripp’sStructure and Story and Coaching Champ Camp in Las Vegas in June.
You can listen to one of my interviews with Ron Arden on my FREE podcasts.
How to Tell Better Stories in Your Speeches
Patricia Fripp Executive Speech Coach
by Patricia Fripp
If your goal is to tell better stories in your speeches and use vivid examples in your business presentations this advice will be helpful.
• Think chronologically.
• Shorter sentences or phrases.
• Consider each visual scene.
Here is a specific example from one of my executive speech coaching clients. John was running a panel at his company’s national sales meeting. I had notice that his email signature file included a line about moving fast. He mentioned “Yes, last year I accepted a new role that was a cross functional move. I have been mvoing fast to get up to speed. This is the norm for our company. This panel I am running is to listen to others who have successfully taken on new roles.”
In conversation he told me his wife would be joining him for the weekend when the national sales meeting was over. Then he added
“My wife came in for the weekend, and we went to see David Copperfield after last years’ sales meeting, and he made her disappear.”
I recommended that would be great to turn into a story to make the connection.
Here is the Fripped version. Notice the techniques:
• Think chronologically.
• Shorter sentences or phrases.
• Consider each visual scene.
“After last years’ sales meeting,
my wife Tammy came in for the weekend.
We went to see David Copperfield.
Three quarters of the way through the show, he threw several balls into the audience.
Tammy caught one.
David said, “If you touched a ball, please come on the stage.”
He sat 20 people on bleachers and covered them with a tarp.
Whoosh! Five seconds later, they were gone!
Suddenly, they appeared at the back of the room.
On the way out, I asked Tammy, “How did he do it?”
She said, “We are sworn to secrecy. However, we did have to move really fast!”
As the sales meeting was in Vegas, and his theme incorporated the importance of moving fast it set the tone well.
If you are interested in delivering better speeches, want to learn to tell stories better why not check out Darren LaCroix and Patricia Fripp’s Structure and Story Seminar and two-day Get Coached to Speak Champ Camp.
Speaking Trends from the Lady and the Champs
Dan Janal PRLead & Patricia Fripp
Dan Janal, President of PRLeads,is a popular speaker and successful consultant helping small businesses get publicity so they can sell more products. Dan was one of my early tech mentors.
Every year he attends dozens of conferences and speaks at many of them.You can imagine how excited I was to know he was attending Lady and the Champs How To Speaking Conference 2012.
He reported on some of the speaking industry trends he heard. Hope you enjoy.
Dan Janal wrote:
Here are trends in the speaking industry from the “Lady and the Champs Speaking Conference.
Patricia Fripp – “The speaking industry is rebounding. You must prove your return on investment to the company to get hired.”
Edt Tate – “Decision makers are becoming gatekeepers. Decision making is moving to higher levels in the company.” Also “Most speakers can’t make a good living solely as a keynoter any longer. We must have multiple streams of income.” Ed like Lady Patricia Fripp and Champs Craig and Darren delivers training, consulting and products.
Craig Valentine – “Executives realize stories sell… Better selling through story telling. You can be in high demand if you can teach story telling. Facts tell. Stories sell.”
Also, “Sometimes multiple streams of income start with multiple leaks. You have to stick with it.” Darren and Craig’s first event had 3 people. They lost money. Now they have 200 people at the conference.
Darren LeCroix – “People want video answers.” YouTube is his best marketing tactic.
If you would like to contact Dan Janal to find out how his clients get terrific results from his coaching, consulting, done-for-you services and do-it-yourself tools, please go to http://www.PRLEADSPLUS.com.
Want to be Funnier? Robert Fripp & John Kinde Have a Lot in Common
Observational humorist John Kinde
Patricia Fripp using John Kinde humor techniques
Want to be Funnier? Robert Fripp & John Kinde Have a Lot in Common by Patricia Fripp
My brother Robert Fripp always tells his audiences that he started tone deaf with no sense of rhythm.
However, he learned, rehearsed, and had the discipline to become one of the greatest guitarists in the world.
My friend, Las Vegas show partner, and a comedy mentor John Kinde claims he also learned the skills that amaze so many of us. John is an observational humorist. A frequently asked question is “How do I get to be funny?” His newsletter HumorPower is one I look forward to receiving.
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Patricia Fripp Speaks at Laugh Lovers Toastmasters Sunday, March 18, 6-8pm Oakland
Patricia Fripp Keynote Speaker for Laugh Lovers March 18, 2012
Patricia Fripp Speaks at Laugh Lovers Toastmasters Sunday, March 18, 6-8pm Oakland
Laugh Lovers is having an open house, you do not have to belong to the club or even be a Toastmaster to come and learn more about Being Powerfully Pithy. The club was inspired by my dear friend John Cantu who ran the Holy City Zoo in the early days of the comedy movements. Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, and Robin Williams were all new when they performed for Cantu. Craig Harrison, the powerhouse behind Laugh Lovers, asked me to add humor as that is their focus. My promise is that I will be amusing!
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Want to be regarded as a brilliant conversationalist?
Brilliant comments from Alan Weiss my partner in The Odd Couple. His “This week’s focus point” is very thoughtful and accurate. If you want to be regarded as a brilliant conversationalist, ask others questions. If you want to be perceived as a smart business person, ask others about their business philosophy. If you want to be associated with thought leadership, hang out with thought leaders and watch what they do. The worst thing you can do is to try to prove you’re “the second smartest person in the room” by constantly citing your sources, credentials, and experiences. Confident, bright, powerful people appear that way because they are content to listen to others, to prompt them to speak, and to analyze and learn in the process. I may be an exception, but I’ve never been able to learn too much while I’m speaking.
Alan Weiss and Patricia Fripp AKA The Odd Couple
Alan’s comments reminds me of my brother Robert Fripp. One of the other most brilliant people I know who listens well. His comment is “We add to a conversation by listening. We add to a conversation by contributing. People who only speak and do not know how to listen give me headache and often make me ill.”
Check out our 2011 The Odd Couple Marketing and Stategy Seminar.
Speaking For Free? Maximize Your Impact
If you are speaking at service clubs, the Chamber, or Church groups in your community why not learn to…
Maximize Your Impact
Be easy to work with. Write your own short introduction, including the importance of the subject, and why you are the perfect person to deliver that message. Make your bio available to them well in advance for their newsletter. As most organizations now have websites that advertise the program, also send a good photo and link to your website.
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How To Organize a Speech
A frequently asked question on public speaking is “How Do I Organize My Speech?”
Here is a basic outline that work well for the beginning speaker.
1. THE PAST-PRESENT-JOURNEY FORMAT: This simple outline can help you tell the audience who you are and why you are qualified to speak on the topic you’ve chosen.
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Robert Fripp’s Favorite Grace
Robert Fripp and his sister Patricia Fripp’s Favorite Grace
Patricia Fripp and Robert Fripp
This was the grace that was used when Robert was in retreat with JG Bennet:
All life is one and everything that lives is holy.
Plants, animals and people all must eat to live and nourish one another.
We bless the life that has died to give us food.
Let us eat consciously, resolving by our labors to pay the debt of our existence.
Robert Fripp
Las Vegas Humorist Looks Behind the Gervais Humor at Golden Globes
Las Vegas observationalist humorist John Kinde looks behind the Gervais humor at Golden Globes.
All public speakers want to be funnier. We can learn from the masters who make us laugh and humor experts like John Kinde who teach us the techniques behind what they say. This was first published in my favorite ezine Humor Power check it out for yourself.
Gervais Humor at Golden Globes
When a comedian hosts an awards show, you can expect some roast-style humor. That’s why they hire the comic. A roast structure creates a vehicle to ensure the success of the jokes which follow. Before you start firing jokes at people in the audience, you need permission. This is usually received by making fun of yourself, which gives you permission to make fun of the boss or authority figures, which gives you permission to make fun of the honored guests.
Last night Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globe Awards for the third year. Some people were surprised he was chosen as this year’s emcee because many thought he was over-the-top offensive last year. But in his pre-show appearances, he made it clear that he was going to do some sharply-pointed humor this year, too. The anticipation of what he was going to say helped build the tension, which is an important trigger for humor.
Here are some bits from his monologue (not the whole monologue) and some observations:
So where was I?
(A transition from last year’s performance to this year’s. Sets the stage for “more of the same.”)
Nervous? Don’t be. This isn’t about you.
(He will start primarily with jokes about the sponsor of the event and himself.)
Hello, I’m Ricky Gervais and welcome to the 69th annual Golden Globe Awards live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Voted for by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
(His formal opening lines establish the fact that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was an authority figure, a fact which may not have been well-known to the television viewing audience.)
Tonight you get Britain’s biggest comedian, hosting the world’s second biggest awards show on America’s third biggest network.
(Uses the rule of three. Pokes fun at the host network.) Continue reading ‘Las Vegas Humorist Looks Behind the Gervais Humor at Golden Globes’
