Public Speaking Charisma
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Holiday Inn, McKnight Road, Pittsburgh, 9am to 5 pm
Lean how to be charismatic when you address a staff meeting, give a presentation to a client or deliver a keynote speech.
Why are some public speakers dull and others dynamic? The secret is speech writing designed for the spoken word instead of the written word, using body language as an asset instead of a distraction, putting variety into your voice so it is interesting instead of monotonous, and targeting your audiences needs instead of lecturing to them. You don’t have to change your personality to gain charisma! It’s within your grasp. You can gain skills that capitalize on your natural speaking style and turn your tedious talk into a powerful presentation.
This enlightening workshop covers the following topics:
- How to captivate the audience from the moment you start
- How to conquer fear of public speaking
- How to use powerful body language
- How to stop sounding monotonous and start sounding dynamic
- How to use humor to bond with the audience
- How to use stories to bring your main points to life
- How to organize outstanding outlines
- How to end with impact
Class size limited to 15. Cost $240. To register for this workshop call 412-478-6785 or email sally@actingforbusiness.com
Public Speaking Training Classes
in Pittsburgh
Taught by two award winning public speakers, Sally Chopping and Barbara Holmes
Public Speaking for Women
If you are fed up with being turned down for promotion or being ripped off by your auto mechanic you may be unconsciously sabotaging yourself because your communication style encourages male prejudice . This workshop will look at the differences in communication styles between men and women and give you skills to bridge the gap.
Find out more about the “Public Speaking for Women” workshop
Painless Public Speaking
Have you ever sat in an impersonal workshop for 30 or more people and listened to a presenter tell you theories about how to improve your personal skills? And haven’t you yearned for a little one-on-one coaching or at least a chance to practice what is being preached? If after that experience you left feeling that you should have stayed home and just bought the book, then the “Painless Public Speaking Class” might just be more what you are looking for.
Find out more about the Painless Public Speaking Class
First Impressions Count: Communication Skills for Teens
In this world of high technology the simple art of conversation has been put on the back burner and yet it is crucial to ignite your future success. Fire up your thoughts and learn how to think on your feet in any situation and talk your way to the top.
Find out more about the “First Impressions Count” workshop
QUESTIONS ABOUT CLASSES? Call Acting For Business at 412-478-6785 or email sally@actingforbusiness.com
First Impressions Count
Communication Skills for Teens
First impressions count. Are you making the right one? Is the college interview keeping you awake at night? Do you get tongue tied at the most critical moments? In this world of high technology the simple art of conversation has been put on the back burner and yet it is crucial to ignite your future success. Fire up your thoughts and learn how to think on your feet in any situation and talk your way to the top.
Some workshop topics include:
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First impressions count. Don’t be a zero!
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Think on your feet. Don’t fall on your face!
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Ace the interview: Have them remember you for all the right reasons
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Beyond small talk: How to talk to anyone
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Nerves of steel: Ways to control your fears.
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The fear of flailing: Take charge of your body language!
The Two Coach Advantage:
In the “First Impressions Count” workshop there will be two coaches and the class size is limited to 15 participants so that you will get plenty of individual attention.
Both coaches are award winning speakers whose training in both public speaking and theater give them a unique approach. They believe that communication involves more than just words and that great body language and voice sound are crucial for creating the right impression. They will use their extensive experience to show you how to ace the interview and communicate effectively in any situation. This is not a dry, dull lecture! Our coaches believe that people learn best when they are involved, entertained and can see immediate results.
Our Two Coaches:
Sally Chopping
Sally is a professional public speaker whose advice about public speaking has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. She gives workshops for major corporations to help people improve their public speaking skills. Her clients include Toyota, Comcast and FedEx. Sally is from Britain and she was trained in acting at the London Drama Center.
Barb Holmes
Barb has taught public speaking and theater classes for over 33 years at the Winchester Thurston School. She has directed over 70 productions, given private coaching in acting and speech and conducted many workshops and seminars in the Pittsburgh Area.
If you have questions about the “First Impressions Count” workshop: Call Acting For Business at 412-478-6785 or send e-mail to: sally@actingforbusiness.com
Acting Techniques
for Public Speakers
Use acting techniques to improve voice tone and inflection, posture, gestures and eye contact.
Saturday, Saturday, May 3, 2008
Holiday Inn, McKnight Road, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 9am to 5 pm
Class size limited to 15Research shows that the impact of your speech will be determined by the following factors:
- 55% by your posture, gestures and eye contact
- 38% by your voice tone and inflection
- Only 7% by the content of your speech.
How you perform your speech will be far more important than how well it is written. But when people stand up to speak, a strange thing happens: Their voices become monotonous and their movements become wooden. Even experienced speakers lose their natural gestures and vocal tone. Traditional methods of teaching public speaking do not correct this problem.
This workshop offers an entirely new approach to public speaking which you will not find anywhere else. It is based on Method Acting techniques that have been adapted specifically for public speakers. It addresses the root cause of why we loose our ability to move and talk naturally in front of a group. For the first time you can learn techniques that will immediately give you a better vocal range. You will learn how to memorize your speech in an entirely new way so that your gestures and movements are natural. You will learn to use eye contact so that everyone in the audience feels as if you are speaking directly to them. For the first time you can learn performance techniques that work.
Class size limited to 15. Cost $295. To attend this workshop call 412-478-6785 or email sally@actingforbusiness.com
Promote Your Business
with Public Speaking
Friday, November 9, 2007
Holiday Inn, McKnight Road, Pittsburgh, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Class size limited to 12
Public speaking is one of the most effective and inexpensive methods of advertising. When you give a speech, you are immediately perceived as an expert on your subject, and you reach a large number of people in short amount of time. Yet few business people realize the potential of public speaking. There are hundreds of opportunities to promote your services and products by speaking at business associations, civic groups and company staff meetings. This workshop will help you target the opportunities and prepare a speech that gets you in the door, and gets results.
This is not a general public speaking workshop. We will focus on your specific business and the speaking opportunities that will reach your clients. Each participant will prepare a speech that is designed for their needs and their market. At the end of the workshop you will have an effective speech that you can use immediately to gain clients.
Are you spending thousands on direct mailings and cold calls and forgetting that public speaking can reach lots of potential clients without costing you a penny? When was the last time you spoke about your business to a civic group or gave a speech at a networking dinner? Shouldn’t public speaking be part of your sales and marketing plan? Attend this workshop—Learn how to speak and gain clients.
Class size limited to 8. Cost $295. To attend this workshop call 412-478-6785 or email sally@actingforbusiness.com
How to Write a Public Speech
in 15 Minutes
Learn how to prepare a presentation when you don’t have time
Friday, July 29, 2005
Holiday Inn, McKnight Road, Pittsburgh, 9am to 4 pm.
It is your company’s Annual Convention and the after-dinner speaker has missed his plane–you will have to speak in his place! Your boss suddenly tells you that you must give a presentation at the staff meeting today! When these things happen, do you wish you could die? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could see these situations as an opportunity instead of a nightmare? What if, instead of muddling through it, you delivered a well organized speech with confidence!
Take charge of your destiny! If you want to succeed in business, you MUST be prepared to speak effectively with only a few minutes notice. Learn techniques that bring success when you don’t have time to spare.
You will not find these methods in any book. Books about public speaking are written with the idea that you have several hours to think about the exact words you will use and to practice your delivery. In the real world that seldom happens. Professional speakers have plenty of time to prepare their speeches—business people do not. You have to answer the telephone, write letters and get the rest of your day’s work done while trying to squeeze in time to prepare your presentation. Of course you will be nervous if you are writing a speech using a method that requires many hours when you don’t even have one hour to spare! You need a method that works in the real world. This workshop will teach you that method. In this workshop you will learn exactly what to do so that you can communicate effectively with only fifteen minutes of preparation.
Cost $295. To attend this workshop call 412-478-6785 or email sally@actingforbusiness.com
Public Speaking Classes for corporate groups
Public Speaking for Women
Does your voice sound as though you are public squeaking instead of commanding the room? Does your body language look pathetic or powerful? If you are fed up with being turned down for promotion or being ripped off by your auto mechanic you may be unconsciously sabotaging yourself because your communication style encourages male prejudice . This workshop will look at the differences in communication styles between men and women and give you skills to bridge the gap.
Topics include:
Scare tactics: Ways to control your fears
The fear of flailing: Take control of your body language!
First impressions count: Don’t get a zero!
Wake up your voice and tone down your pitch
How to think on your feet without falling on your face
Our approach to public speaking:
We are award winning speakers whose training in both public speaking and theater give us a unique approach. We teamed up because we thought it was time for a different type of public speaking course. We think of a speech as a total performance, not a boring recitation of information. This same philosophy is carried over to our seminars. We believe that people learn best when they are involved, entertained and can see immediate results.
The Two Coach Advantage:
In the “Public Speaking for Women” workshop there are two coaches and the class size is limited to 15 so that you will get plenty of individual attention!
The Coaching Team:
Our Coaches are Barb Holmes and Sally Chopping. Sally and Barb are public speakers with an acting and theater background. They will use their experience to show you how to look natural at the lectern, how to have a powerful stage presence, how to win over an audience and how to have fun doing it!
The Two Coach Advantage
About our two coaches:
Sally Chopping
Sally is a professional public speaker whose advice about public speaking has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. She gives workshops for major corporations to help people improve their public speaking skills. Her clients include Toyota, Comcast and FedEx. Sally is from Britain and she was trained in acting at the London Drama Center.
Barb Holmes
Barb has taught public speaking and theater classes for over 33 years at the Winchester Thurston School. She has directed over 70 productions, given private coaching in acting and speech and conducted many workshops and seminars in the Pittsburgh Area.
Questions about the Public Speaking Class?
Send e-mail to:
Painless Public Speaking
The public speaking class with the
Two Coach Advantage
Radisson Pittsburgh Hotel in Green Tree
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Class size limited to 10
Two award winning professional public speakers will show you how to transform your presentation skills. Class size is limited to 10 so that you can take part in training exercises that will dramatically improve your public speaking skills.
Class participants will be videotaped at the beginning and end of the training day and you will receive a CD showing how your public speaking skills have improved.
Have you ever sat in an impersonal workshop for 30 or more people and listened to a presenter
tell you theories about how to improve your personal skills? And haven’t you yearned for a little one-on-one coaching or at least a chance to practice what is being preached? If after that experience you left feeling that you should have stayed home and just bought the book, then the “Painless Public Speaking Class” might just be more what you are looking for.
In this affordable, small size workshop with the “two coach advantage”, you will actually get the opportunity to learn by doing.
Our approach to public speaking:
We are award winning speakers whose training in both public speaking and theater give us a unique approach. We teamed up because we thought it was time for a different type of public speaking course. We think of a speech as a total performance, not a boring recitation of information. This same philosophy is carried over to our seminars. We believe that people learn best when they are involved, entertained and can see immediate results.
You’ll leave with:
A before and after video of your progress
A new attitude
Skills you can use today!
And a notion that public speaking can be fun!
Topics the class will tackle:
Scare tactics: Ways to control your fears
The fear of flailing: Take charge of your body language!
First impressions count: Don’t get a zero!
Build your house out of bricks: How to organize a speech from the ground up
Blow the whistle on bad PowerPoint presentations
Wake up your voice and wake up your audience
How to think on your feet without falling on your face
Your skill level:
Whether you are a beginning speaker who has never been in the drivers seat or a professional on the public speaking circuit, we can accelerate your learning curve. With a ratio of 1 teacher to 5 participants, everyone can be a winner!
We have designed this course so that it is flexible enough to focus on YOUR problems and YOUR speaking style. This is NOT a cookie-cutter class taught by a trainer who was hired to follow an outline designed for the mass market!
Painless Public Speaking: One day to success!
Registration starts at 8:30.
Class begins promptly at 9 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m.
Lunch is on your own. You will have an hour break at lunchtime so that you can enjoy a delicious meal in the Radisson Hotel at the Rivers Restaurant or at their Market Snack Shoppe, or you can visit a nearby restaurant.
Registration:
Class registration fee: $349 which includes a CD of your speeches at the beginning and at the end of the class.
The Painless Public Speaking Class is only open to ten participants. Make the decision that will improve your skills and attitudes about public speaking
Enroll today!
To register by phone:
Call Acting For Business at 412-478-6785 Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Two Coach Advantage
In the Painless Public Speaking Course the class ratio of teachers to students is 1 to 5 so you will get plenty of individual attention!
Our Two Coaches:
Sally Chopping
Sally is a professional public speaker whose advice about public speaking has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. She gives workshops for major corporations to help people improve their public speaking skills. Her clients include Toyota, Comcast and FedEx. Sally is from Britain and she was trained in acting at the London Drama Center.
Barb Holmes
Barb has taught public speaking and theater classes for over 33 years at the Winchester Thurston School. She has directed over 70 productions, given private coaching in acting and speech and conducted many workshops and seminars in the Pittsburgh Area.
The Coaching
Team
Both Sally and Barb are public speakers with an acting and theater background. They will use their experience to show you how to look natural at the lectern, how to have a powerful stage presence, how to win over an audience and how to have fun doing it!
Questions about the Painless Public Speaking Classes?
sally@actingforbusiness.com
Or callActing For Business at
412-478-6785 during weekdays
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
What if I register for the public speaking class and later need to cancel?
We understand that circumstances may arise that require you to cancel. You may send someone else in your place if you prefer. If this isn’t an option, you can cancel your public speaking class registration up to five business days prior to the event and your registration fee will be refunded less a $20 enrollment charge. If we receive your class cancellation less than 5 business days before the class, you can receive a refund of 50% of your registration fee or you can exchange your registration for a new registration to attend the next public speaking class on Saturday, January 10, 2008 at the same location. Please feel free to call us at 412-478-6785 for addition information.