"When I first saw you speak to an audience, Fred, I was mesmerized. Your stage presence was so captivating, that I felt that I was the only person in the room and that you were just talking to me! I knew that you could help me. I never felt I was truly being me when I spoke in public. By appreciating the values and beliefs that you have, I learned to connect with my audience as friends. You helped me to entertain my audience more powerfully... even when I'm being serious! Thank you so much for the skills you gave me. I use them every day. Not just when I present to audiences but when I communicate with anyone."

Charlie Baxter
President D2R Properties
London/New York
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Great Communication Skills

Whether you're trying to sell, influence, educate or motivate with your speech...

Great communication skills don't just involve the clear, concise conveying of your message, they also involve your connection to the message. When you connect with presence and passion to your message, that puts a human face on what you're trying to accomplish. Audiences will connect to that human face.

Whether it's to one person or thousands, speaking about your product or service is the most personal connection you make with your buyer. Making a great connection is directly related to great sales—wouldn't you be more apt to buy from someone you're drawn to? Making a great connection is directly related to a great response no matter what the aim of your speech.

• Presence and passion are vital to motivate, educate, or influence—remember the few teachers who really inspired you to learn?
• When you speak with presence and passion your product or service becomes vividly alive and desirable to the buyer—remember that salesperson you couldn't resist?
• Buyers don't connect to a talking head. They connect to a talking person, who makes emotional as well as economic and need-based sense. Take the emotion out of buying and in most cases you'd take the buying out of buying. Speaking with presence and passion makes the difference between a sale and just another sales pitch.
• Speaking with presence and passion makes the difference between motivating, educating or influencing your audience, and just another slide show