World Champion Evaluator evaluating like a champion

Patricia Fripp came to town last night!  What a treat!  I learned a lot from her 2.5 hour presentation.  Here are some of the highlights:

1. Dialogue is key to making stories come alive.
2. Having a good I/You ratio is an excellent technique for connecting with the audience.
3. Your dialogue does not have to come from people.
4. You must record your presentations AND watch them.
5. We need to fall in love with our own content.
6. Have someone else transcribe your speeches if possible.
7. Move with purpose using movement specific phrases.
8. Stand still at the start of your presentation.
9. You can connect intellectually or emotionally.
10. If you don’t know what questions your audience has, you don’t know your audience.
11. Storytelling for speeches also works for blogs.
12. Lead your audience from what they can do to how you can provide it.
13. Use the words of your clients in your presentations.
14. You can make eye contact on silence too.
15. You cannot be creative in isolation.
16. Create a mastermind group.
17. Make the people in the audience the heroes.
18. Use phrasing to punctuate your speeches.
19. Punch words need to go at the end of a phrase.
20. Take your audience along with you in your presentation.

This really only scratches the surface of what I learned.  I will come back to many of these comments on this blog.

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