Introducing PowerSpeak!

Powerful speaking skills will help you reach more people, share your ideas and products more quickly and advance your career faster than just about any other professional skill.

If you are a coach or own a service business, you can build your reputation—and your client base—more quickly with speaking than with any other marketing activity.

The Challenge:

• You want to reach more clients than you can making cold calls or asking for referrals.
• You I have a product or service that you want people to know about right now!
• You want to advance your career in your organization and create a reputation as a leader.

There are lots of speaking skills courses out there. You could sign up for one this afternoon. What stops you from doing it?

People say things like this every day:

• I don’t feel like being criticized in public—and that's what happens in all the speaking skills programs I've ever heard about.
• I don’t see how all those techniques are really going to help me feel more confident on the inside, once class is over and I’m presenting in front of a group.

Clearly they have a point. What if there was an alternative?

My Approach:

I believe that anyone can develop the ability to speak well in public in an atmosphere of appreciation and hands-on positive experiences. This flies in the face of common practice. Most speaking skills classes are taught in a very similar way: “the pain stops when you get it right.” It’s hard to argue with the results of this method since many successful speakers have learned this way.

This method has one very big downside, though: most people don’t like to be criticized in public. The thought of the discomfort that’s in store for them keeps many people from taking the class. Suddenly it makes perfect sense that the fear of speaking is the #1 fear—when the fear of death is only #6!

My approach to speaking skills training is the reason why 100% of my graduates eliminate their fear of speaking when they discover their signature speaking strengths, in as little as one day of training.

The secret to the success of my method is that when people don’t feel criticized, they relax a little. When they relax a little, they learn better—which relaxes them even further. When they get rewarded for the behaviors that work, instead of being criticized for the behaviors that don’t, they naturally employ more of the speaking behaviors that work. Success breeds more success!

The result: this method works much faster—and it’s much more fun. 
In my presentation skills classes, we focus on the inside
elements that show up on the outside when you speak.

There are a multitude of presentation skills programs that focus on the techniques of successfully getting your point across. Typically, these programs are missing one vital component.  It’s the one component that is strictly a function of your ability to naturally and comfortably connect with your audience. Over the years I have found that the most effective way to do this is by simply being yourself—and that is an inside job.

PowerSpeak

These are the biggest obstacles to overcome if you are not comfortable speaking in public:

• Life is just too short to be criticized when you are learning.
• There is no one perfect way to be a good speaker.

That’s why I created the PowerSpeak courses.

When you take my class, here’s what you will walk away with:

• The ability to focus your attention where it belongs (away from you and on your audience).
• The ability to relax into your signature speaking strengths so you can access your “Inner Speaker” (the part of you who knows exactly what to say and how to say it).
• The ability to simply have a conversation with your audience, no matter the topic.

These three keys to PowerSpeak will help you to overcome a whole host of speaking challenges:

• nervousness and anxiety
• physical symptoms of stress
• shaky voice
  losing your train of thought
• lots of “ums”, etc.

so you can enjoy speaking in public, whether you do it often or not.

Learn more about Speaking Skills classes coming soon.