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This video contains edited highlights from a 1 hour and 15 minute interactive presentation on public speaking given at the 2009 National Speakers Association (NSA) Convention.

A Public Service Message for Job Seekers - Two Complimentary Online Audio Lessons

Courtesy of World Champions' EDGE, Patricia Fripp, and Al Hops

One of our World Champions' EDGE members asked "Please create an Audio Lesson about how to excel and be successful at a job interview!" Fripp got carried away! Listen in on TWO 20-minute lessons and learn as Hall of Fame Speaker Patricia Fripp interviews Al Hops, creator of The Interview Edge.

This is a FREE RESOURCE for anybody looking for a job. Please forward!

Need a Competitive Edge in Your Job Interviews? Listen & Learn how you can utilize Al Hops' "Acing An Interview" Formula of "Perception, Observation, Preparation" to get an EDGE! Send this to your friends! Who is Al Hops? Click!
Al Hops Interview ~ PART #1 ~	Al Hops Interview ~ PART #2 ~
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Who is Al Hops?

Al Hops is an award-winning sales professional who has consistently developed innovative ideas leading to success in job interviewing and closing sales.

Based on his experience and adding techniques he learned from movie directors and motion pictures, Al became a high tech company’s number-one salesman. Al created the concept of P.O.P. (perception, observation and preparation) which led to the magic of the Schindler Effect and The Interview Edge.

As part of his consulting practice with President Clinton, Bob Costas and Jim Carrey, Al helped open the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville.

In Reno and Vegas, Hops presented the first seminars for Hilton Hotels VIPs on "A Day in the Life of the Internet."  Cirque Du Soleil hired him to develop their first website.  Al presently consults and delivers seminars on "Acing a Job Interview."

Al can be reached at:

Al Hops and Associates
2424 Riffel Ct.
Castro Valley, Ca. 94546
(em) custsat@att.net
(tel)  510-537-5042
(fax) 510-537-9928

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It is Not Your Clients' Job to Know How They Can Hire You Again

My best client is Dan Maddux, the Executive Director of the American Payroll Association.  He is a popular speaker himself on marketing and frequently invited to speak at the National Speakers Association.  He often tells keynote speakers, "It is your responsibility to let me know how I could hire you again. I don't read your mind, and I might not read your website once you've been booked." 

Taking Dan's advice, just in case you are searching high and low for some of the services I offer here is the latest update on Keynote Speeches on Presentation Skills.

Keynote Speech on Presentation Skills

A keynote speech on presentation skills is perfect for your conference if your audience needs to learn the very latest public speaking techniques. If business presentations, sales presentations, corporate convention speeches, executive speeches, internal meetings and company briefing are of a high priority to you there is no better keynote speaker to hire than Patricia Fripp.

Most executives, managers, supervisors and sales professionals are required to make presentations and often are required to give a speech. Almost everyone at some level...even top executives...often have a fear public speaking. In an era of tough competition, presentations that persuade, educate, motivate, and help you sell better give you a competitive edge. When executives deliver powerful speeches their employees have more respect for them and confidence in the future.

Patricia Fripp's unique and riveting keynote speeches on Presentation Skills can have various titles. If you would prefer we can adapt a title that will fit your convention theme or corporate slogan.

• Presentation Skills Keynote Title Options
• How to Give a Speech
• Preparing and Presenting Powerful Presentations
• The Story Behind Awesome Stories
• How to Deliver Powerful, Polished and Persuasive Presentations
• How to Inspire and Excite Your Audience into Action
• Superstar Sales Presentations: The Inside Secrets

More Reasons for You to Consider a Keynote Speech on Presentation Skills

The higher up the corporate ladder an individual goes the more important good public speaking skills become.

When your associates are at a client meeting or networking event, the way they act, speak and behave adds to or diminishes both their personal and your corporate reputations.

In the competitive sales arena it probably takes your sales associates weeks or months to finally secure a meeting in front of a C level audience. Are you confident their presentation skills will not lose you the business you have already budgeted to win?

Add to Your Convention Success

To add to your convention success, why not engage Patricia Fripp to deliver a presentation skills keynote speech and then present one or more interactive breakout sessions? During the smaller presentation skills breakout sessions Patricia will be hands on and offer specific speaking suggestions to your attendees. They can benefit from Fripp's years of public speaking and speech coaching experience. Patricia will coach your audience on how to deliver engaging presentations that get results. Through Patricia Fripp's public speaking advice and training your attendees will increase their confidence and have a better sense of control in their careers and life.

This is What Patricia Fripp Guarantees for Every Keynote Speech on Presentation Skills

Patricia's keynote speech or seminar will be adapted for your audience. This is what Patricia Fripp will promise from every presentation or keynote speech on presentation skills and public speaking.

Your audience will learn how to:

• Create and deliver a presentation that is on-target
• Speak to be remembered...for all the right reasons
• Utilize the three critical aspects of every business presentation
• Solidify your thoughts into a fool-proof structure
• Recognize do's and don'ts that ensure a successful presentation
• Open with impact and close on a high point
• Connecting both emotionally and intellectually
• Speak as an authority
• Minimize your nervousness
• Improve listener buy-in for your point of view
• Present persuasively, clearly and concisely
• Adapt and be confident in every public speaking situation.

Patricia Fripp's experience and knowledge of public speaking is advanced. However, no matter what level of experience your audience level is...novice or advanced...they will walk away amazed and empowered.

If a keynote speech on presentation skills is what you have decided you can feel secure with your choice of hiring Patricia Fripp. Here are a few of her public speaking credentials:

• Patricia Fripp has been paid to speak for more than 25 years.
• She is a National Speakers Association Past President and an NSA Hall of Fame Speaker.
• Executives, business professionals and celebrity speakers hire her for personal speech coaching.
• Many corporate and association meeting planners consistently hire Fripp to coach their presenters in advance of their meetings and conventions.
• Kiplinger's Personal Finance says, "Patricia Fripp's speaking school is the sixth best way you can invest in yourself."

Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking

Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
As an executive speech coach and a professional speaker who has been paid to speak in public since 1976 and became a full time professional public keynote speaker in 1984 when I was President of the National Speakers Association, I am frequently asked about how to overcome nervousness when speaking in public.

There are different techniques and different reasons why you are nervous to speak in public. These comments address the natural nervousness and a few practical steps to help you.

You're waiting your turn to make a speech, when suddenly you realize that your stomach is doing strange things and your mind is rapidly going blank. You realize you are probably suffering from the fear of public speaking. How do you handle this critical time period?

People ask me this question in all my speaking classes, but there is no single answer. You need to anticipate your speech mentally, physically, and logistically.

Mentally:

Start by understanding that you'll spend a lot more time preparing than you will speaking. As a general rule, invest three hours of preparation for a half hour speech, a six to one ratio. When you've become a highly experienced speaker, you may be able to cut preparation time considerably in some cases, but until then, don't skimp. Part of your preparation will be to memorize your opening and closing - three or four sentences each. Even if you cover your key points from notes, knowing your opening and closing by heart lets you start and end fluently, connecting with your audience when you are most nervous.

Logistically:

Go to the room where you'll be speaking as early as possible so you can get comfortable in the environment. If you will be speaking from a stage, go early in the morning when no one is there and make friends with the stage. Walk around on the area where you will be speaking, so the first time there is not when you deliver your talk.Then, during your presentation, you can concentrate on your audience, not your environment.

Physically:

A wonderful preparation technique for small meetings is to go around shaking hands and making eye contact with everybody beforehand. For larger meetings, meet and shake hands with people in the front row at least, and some of the people as they are coming in the door. Connect with them personally, so they'll be rooting for your success. We as speakers are rarely nervous about individuals, only when faced with the thought of an audience. Once you've met the audience or at least some of them, they become less scary.

It's totally natural to be nervous. Try this acting technique. Find a private spot, and wave your hands in the air. Relax your jaw, and shake your head from side to side. Then shake your legs one at a time. Physically shake the tension out of your body.

Try not to sit down too much while you're waiting to speak. If you're scheduled to go on an hour into the program, try to sit in the back of the room so that you can stand up occasionally. It is hard to jump up and be dynamic when you've been relaxed in a chair for an hour. (Comedian Robin Williams is well known for doing "jumping jacks" to raise his energy level before going on stage.) Sitting in the back also gives you easy access to the bathroom and drinking fountain. There's nothing worse than being stuck down front and being distracted by urgent bodily sensations.

You can cure fear of public speaking. At my Patricia Fripp Public Speaking and Presentation Skills School we can help you overcome the fear of public speaking by demystify the process of what it takes to design and deliver a great presentation.

If you budget is limited why not find a Toastmasters Club? Then your logical next step is to find high caliber public speaking advice for a small investment. World Champions' Edge coaching community. Through World Champions' Edge you can learn how to overcome fear of public speaking and learn tips on public speaking from Patricia Fripp and Toastmasters World Champions: Darren LaCroix, Craig Valentine, Ed Tate and Mark Brown.

Executive Speech Coach & How to Write a Speech

For many years I have attended the Ragan Speechwriters Conference. Many of these heroes write for history. Rob Friedman is one of the most talented and interesting friends I have made there. Everything he writes and says is of interest to me.

This is a repost from Ragan. Enjoy...

How to write a speech for the ears
By Michael Sebastian

Speeches aren’t print articles, so write accordingly. Top Eli Lilly executive communicator Rob Friedman explains how

Crafting a speech is unlike writing a press release, e-mail or article in the employee publication. On paper—or screen—you’re writing for the eyes. The words are portable; readers can revisit them; there are pictures.

“A fundamental aspect of speeches is writing not for the page, but for the ear,” explained Rob Friedman, director of executive communications at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company. “It’s what we say and how we say it that’s important.”

Friedman calls speeches made for the listeners’ ears “oral writing,” and explained at Ragan’s Corporate Communicators Conference last May the “Six R’s of oral writing.”

Here they are.

Real—Speeches should be conversational, Friedman explained. Unfortunately, business speeches too often include jargon. “If you’re using [jargon]—cut it out!” Friedman said. “One syllable words are important—use the best word, the easy word,” he explained. “Use this simple test: If it’s a word you use in conver-sation with a friend, it’s fine in your speech.”

Here’s an example from Friedman of a stiff sentence made real: “We’re endeavoring to construct a more inclusive society.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned that sentence into, “We’re going to make a country where no one is left out.”

Repeat—“Because listeners can’t reread, speakers must amplify, embellish and repeat key points,” Friedman said. Since speechwriting is about persuasion, repetition is important.

“The spoken word is ephemeral,” an AT&T speechwriter once said. “The words I’m speaking now pass through the air; you can’t bring them back unless I bring them back. When I do, that’s not repetition that’s amplification. Everything I say, I should say two or three ways. I shouldn’t say it only once. You have to hear it again.”

Notice how many times he repeated his point?

Rhythm—“Listeners love rhythm,” Friedman said. “Studies have shown that applause during speeches is triggered more often by cadence than by content.” So how do you get rhythm? Friedman has three tips.

Variety. Sing-songy rhythms are bad; avoid them by ensuring your sentences aren’t all the same length. Take this example of long and short sentences from Winston Churchill: “If you have an important point to make don’t be subtle. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again and then hit it a third time. A tremendous whack.”

Balance. Strike an accord with your statements and do so with conjunctions (“but,” “and,” “or,” “because,” “when,” “without”), or employ correlative conjunctions like “both/and,” not only/but also, if/then, either/or.

Friedman offered an example of balance in a business speech: “We delivered those solid results without deviating from our core values. We aggressively expanded into new markets and lines of business, but stood by our tradition of customer service. We brought new operations and employees into our family companies, but didn’t forget that people make the difference.”

The rule of threes. A list of three suggests finality, Friedman said. It makes a sentence sound complete. For instance, “I want your input, your ideas, your inspiration.”
Rhetoric—Friedman suggests using these four rhetorical tools to make your speeches easier on the ears:

Anaphora is a Greek term meaning, the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a series. For instance, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” had several anaphora like, “I have a dream” and “Let freedom ring … let it ring”

Rhetorical questions, ask them. Take something declarative, Friedman said. It grabs the audience’s attention. Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound. Take this example from Friedman, “We’re making major investments to modernize our plants.” Notice the Ms’?

Fragment sentences. People use them in conversation; you should in your speeches. It helps build rhythm.

Rock & Roll—Good speechwriting, like all good writing, must be three things, Friedman said.

Be dynamic. Nouns must be specific, not abstract, he said. For instance, if you say, “imagine a plant,” someone might think of a building, a fern, perhaps a spy. Instead, try specificity: “Imagine a Pepsi bottling plant.” Also, avoid boring verbs; use energetic ones. Profits can “go up,” Friedman said. Or they can “explode,” “skyrocket,” even “evaporate.”

Be vivid. Write for all the senses. Unlike a magazine, speeches don’t come with images. So create imagery and go beyond the limits of a page or screen. For instance, “The Pepsi plant smelled of burnt metal and sweat.”

Be imaginative. Use analogies, tell stories, work props into the speech. For instance, “The Pepsi plant smelled like cheap soda tastes—pungent and nauseating.” Then produce a prop, a cold bottle of Pepsi, and drink from it. “The end product from that plant is anything but.”

Rousing—Boring speakers need rousing speeches. Friedman wants you to face facts: Sometimes you write for people who are bad, boring speakers. Here are several tips to fight that problem:

Find passion. Your speaker is passionate about something. Learn what that is and weave it into his or her speeches.

Create a story they want to tell, perhaps a personal story.

Develop a stump speech, like that of a politician, with consistent themes and stories. The more your executive delivers that speech, the better it becomes.

Write humor into a speech, even if your executive is humorless. Just make sure the speaker is comfortable with it.

Executive Speech Coach Podcasts on Public Speaking and Presentation Skills

Executive Speech Coach Patricia Fripp Offers Public Speaking and Sales Presentation Skills Advice

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Traps to Avoid When You Speak
Podcasts 2009 - June 2009
Written by Patricia Fripp
http://www.salesopedia.com/index.php/podcasts-mainmenu-10171/june-09/2004-traps-to-avoid-when-you-speak

Speakermatch Podcasts: Listeners Favorites

How to UP Your Value in a DOWN Economy
GUEST: Patricia Fripp
http://www.speakermatch.com/teleseminars/022609/

How to UP Your Value in a DOWN Economy:
A Bonus Q&A Session with Fripp
http://www.speakermatch.com/teleseminars/031309/

Get Paid to Speak TV Patricia Fripp with Darren LaCroix
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1712133

Patricia Fripp on All Business Radio
"Polish Up Your Sales Presentations"
http://www.allbusiness.com/12324270-1.html

A Speech is Not a Conversation, but it Must be Conversational!
Podcast - Part 1http://www.worldchampionresources.com/AudioLessons/AudioLesson050609.html

Executive Speech Coach Patricia Fripp Has a New Book on Public Speaking

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"I've just returned from Finland where I represented the UK in the European Finals of the JCI (Junior Chamber International) Public Speaking World Championship and I won! The tips and techniques I picked up from the Champs played a HUGE part in helping me put together and deliver a winning speech. Thank you so much!"
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Fripp Executive Speech partner Darren LaCroix promotes Vegas event

2001 International Toastmasters World Champion Darren LaCroix partnered with me in our Coaching Camp at Lake Las Vegas.
Darren taught us "In our stories our characters do not make eye contact."
He quoted World Champion David Brooks who teaches "We all share the same seven emotions." Darren asked our participants "What is the emotion of each of your characters?"
Want to see Darren on TV?