IMPROMPTU: Memory Skills for Speaking Intelligently at a Moment's Notice
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THE ESSENTIALS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
- Become a confident, masterful public speaker
- What makes one a great speaker?
- Transforming nervous energy into enthusiasm
- Recognizing the three types of speeches and when each is appropriate
- Exploring and developing strategies and models for becoming more skilled at impromptu speaking
- The high costs of poor public speaking
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- Develop memory techniques that minimize “stage fright”
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Keeping your cool when responding to hard questions, emotionally sensitive
situations or public criticism - tactics you need to know
- Learn how to project confidence in front of an audience
- How to respond professionally to criticism during a presentation
- Avoiding the long ‘goodbye’
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MEMORY FOR MANAGEMENT
- Conduct better interviews without notes
- Make a more powerful impression at meetings and presentations
- Develop laser-like focus and concentration
- The power of the ‘peg system’
- Develop memory techniques that minimize "stage fright"
- What is the ‘mental slap,’ and why it is essential
- Remember numbers without time-consuming repetition
- Razor-sharpen your business edge: Remembering prices, financial data, stock quotes, etc.
- Apply the proven 7 step system for remembering names and faces
- Enhance your image as a professional
- How to project confidence and professionalism in any speaking situation
- Cure absentmindedness forever!
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MASTERING THE MANUSCRIPT SPEECH
- When the manuscript speech is your only option
- The essential steps in preparing the manuscript speech
- Choosing the appropriate structure
- Utilizing the ‘peg system’
- Working with a teleprompter
- Why the first three minutes are critical
- Develop memory techniques that minimize “stage fright”
- How the body file’ system can help with a short address
- Learn to maintain control of your emotions no matter how tense the situation
- Achieving a positive first impression
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IMPROMPTU SPEAKING OF THE FIRST KIND
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- The steps in preparing speeches of the ‘first kind’
- What you can learn from Mark Twain and George Carlin!
- Become a more confident speaker by learning to deliver presentations without written notes
- Utilizing powerful templates to for ensuring success
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- Conduct better interviews without notes
- Delivering a eulogy
- Association and imagination
- Focusing on what your audience wants to know rather than on yourself
- How to prepare for an ‘off-the-cuff’ speech
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IMPROMPTU SPEAKING OF THE SECOND KIND
- The essential difference between impromptu speaking of the first kind and impromptu speaking of the second kind
- Speaking at weddings, Christenings, Bar Mitzvahs, etc.
- Speaking at a colleague’s retirement party – A case study
- How the ‘PREP’ template can ensure success
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- Using both the right and left sides of the brain
- Position: The starting point
- Only have two minutes to prepare – get ‘FAT’
- Dealing with speaker anxiety
- Please - no excuses
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