Story Coaching:
You’ve Got Stories
Working 1-on-1 live or via Zoom I will coach you on the development and use of stories and storytelling techniques. Among the areas I will help you:
- Together we’ll prospect your past to uncover unique stories with universal appeal you can tell
- I will show you how to insert stories into your keynotes, training, coaching, consulting, sales process
- I’ll help you Understand how to echo archetypal themes in your personal stories
- We will find folk and ethnic tales to tell to support the themes of your programs and topic areas
- You will receive coaching on how to add Humor to existing speeches and stories
- I’ll show you performance tips for polishing our stories for the stage, the classroom or online telling
- Master the storytelling rule of three, use of pauses, character development, voices, staging
- Learn to employ different storylines, structures for your stories, from call & response to progressive stories to story spine
Initial 75-minute session : $500
Finding the Funny:
Humor Coaching
Working 1-on-1 live or via Zoom I will coach you on how to punch up existing speeches and stories with humor, or how to write humorous speeches or stories. Among the areas I will help you:
- Write humorous titles for your programs, presentations, stories and speeches
- Create funny names and mannerisms for characters
- Learn how to employ the comedy rule of three
- Use reverses and call backs in your material
- Work on your timing and beats
- Write funnier through exaggeration, hyperbole, deadpan, etc.
- Learn Craig’s Humoration humor writing process
- Use structured for humor: from lists to humorous site gags, use of props, games, audience
- Employ improv techniques to engage your audiences
Initial 75-minute session : $500
From Free to Fee:
On Becoming A Professional Speaker
I’ll teach you how to transition from amateur public speaker to paid professional speaker. Whether you’re novice speaker, a beginning, intermediate or advancee Toastmaster, an aspiring, emerging or current professional speaker of speaker ready to jump t0 the next level, I am here to help you.
Among the areas I will help you:
- Find and refine your topic
- Understand the expertise imperative and how to become one
- Become audience-focused
- Polish your professionalism
- Get the most out of the programs of Toastmasters International
- Master different venues, room layouts and time parameters
- Build an ethical speaking business
- Understand how to work with meeting planners
- Sell your programs
- Prepare to deliver different types of presentations
- Design a plan for self-improvement
- Benefit from video coaching
- Smooth out rough edges
- Overcome fear and connect with every audience
- Specializing and growing your client list