SPEAK LIKE A PRO : Public speaking and presentation skills training and resources

Imagine how it would feel being able to present or speak in public with complete confidence in a way that held your audience's attention and burned your message indelibly into their minds.

For a long time I received dozens of emails from people who were unable for some reason to hear me speak in person. A lot were from abroad, many didn't have the time, some worked for small companies that didn't have enough employees to warrant an in-house seminar, while others worked for large organisations but couldn't persuade their bosses to pay for one.

And they all asked me the same thing. Since I rarely give public seminars, was there any other way they could access my material?

At the time, there wasn't. But I stopped doing this just for money a long time ago. Sure I still like the cash, but my motivation nowadays is just as much to help the millions of people out there who were once like me. Not just people who suffered from public speaking anxiety, but also competent speakers who want to ramp their skills up a gear.

People who could be confident, dynamic, interesting, entertaining speakers ...... if they only had access to the information, tips, techniques and secrets I've accumulated.

So I sat down with my seminar material and over many a midnight oil-burning session, put it in a format that would make it accessible to anyone. Regardless of where they lived, regardless of what size company they worked for, regardless of how much time they had available. I wrote the Speak Like A Pro E-manual.

It represents TEN YEARS of my experience in public speaking.

TEN YEARS' worth of hard graft, learning what works and what doesn't.

TEN YEARS of trial and error.

TEN YEARS of making the mistakes and taking the knocks.

TEN YEARS of speaking to tens of thousands of people across four continents.

Although I was very confident in viortually any other scenario, there was a time when the very thought of public speaking or presenting to an audience filled me with horror - my throat would go dry, my knees would knock and the colour would drain from my face - to the point where I worried it might affect my career (to see how confident you are at public speaking, take the ConfidenceTest).

So I decided to do something about it, and I actively studied the art of public speaking. Now when I decide to study something, I'm the type of guy who really gets into the subject; I don't do things by halves.

I read every book on the subject I could get my hands on (including the ancient Greek works on rhetoric), listened to recordings of yesterday's great orators like Churchill, JFK and Martin Luther King and went out of my way to watch today's best speakers in action.

Professional Secrets

But I didn't stop there. As my confidence grew, I started to seek out those speakers and pick their brains, trying to discover the 'secrets' that I knew must exist somewhere.

The more I listened, the more I realised that what I was being told was priceless - simple, easy-to-master secrets, tips and techniques that made all the difference between being an amateur and a pro.

And which could turn anyone into a confident, articulate, interesting, persuasive and entertaining public speaker.

It worked beyong my wildest expectations and after a while I left an extremely well-paid job in Sales and Marketing to become a professional speaker (see About Nick).

And then I discovered something. Whenever I met people socially and told them what I did for a living, they would look at me in amazement and say, 'Oh my God, I couldn't do that - I'm terrified of public speaking', or ' Giving presentations is the worst part of my job'.

As I became more and more well known on the speaker circuit, I started to think about the millions of people out there who were as nervous as I once was, who deserved the opportunity to banish that public speaking anxiety and who could fulfil their true potential if they only had the information I had been privileged to have access to.

So over the next twelve months I distilled all the wisdom and experience I had accumulated into my Speak Like A Pro© program, designed to enable you to learn within hours what I took years to master.

Now you could learn by trial and error - making hundreds of presentations and learning from the mistakes you make along the way, reviewing each performance and identifying what went well and what went wrong. But doesn't it make sense to skip that long, difficult learning curve if you have the opportunity?

Contents

Let's look at what's included:

• The 7 key elements of any great presentation or speech (you might be able to get away with only having five of them, but any less and you will be mentally filed by your audience under 'F for forgettable').
• The 'Holy Trinity' of public speaking (preparation, skills and technique and confidence), and how all three are vital to your success.
• The top tips, techniques and secrets professional speakers all use but like to keep to themselves (you would NEVER pick these up on your own without spending years on 'the circuit').
• The biggest single reason amateur speakers crash and burn (and this is so AVOIDABLE you wonder why anyone ever does it).

• Why you can NEVER over-prepare.
• The biggest single mistake speakers can make during their opening, without even realising what they are doing (this mistake loses your audience right from the start - from then on, everything is an uphill struggle)..
• The 'Seven Deadly Sins' of public speaking and how to avoid them (like the plague!).
• How to get your audience to listen attentively to you right from the start (even experienced speakers often miss this one!).
• How to grab your audience by the throat during your opening (just this chapter alone is worth the price; sometimes I am asked, 'If you could give me ONE tip on public speaking, what would it be?' My answer is always, 'Have a great opening!' I'll tell you SEVEN great ways to do this).

• How to project a powerful, confident image by controlling your body language (99% of our gestures are unconscious, which means that most of the time you have NO IDEA what message you are sending).
• How to double your message's effectiveness by appealing to your audience's emotions (this is POWERFUL; engaging both sides of the audience's brains acts as a multiplier).
• Using your voice to its full effect (I'll explain how to vary volume, pace, intonation and inflection to multiply its effectiveness exponentially).
• How to use humour without trying to be a comedian (even down to minor details like how to arrange the seating to maximise laughter).
• The secrets of great orators like JFK, Martin Luther King and Churchill (the techniques they used to make their speeches unforgettable are well-documented; I'll tell you what they were and how to use them).

• The 2,000 year-old secrets of rhetoric that have been used by great orators for centuries (using these willt BURN your message indelibly into your audience's brains).
• How to use stories to enrich your message and make it more memorable.
• The incredible power of movement (I'll explain why you should NEVER stand behind a podium or lectern if you can help it).
• The importance of making friends with your audience before you start to speak, and how to do it.
• How to structure your talk so that it flows logically (this leads the audience irresistably by the nose towards your objective, but is something most speakers pay scant regard to).

• How to banish your speaking anxiety (simple, confidence-building exercises that will give you the equivalent of a 'confidence pill' you can take whenever you need it).
• The incredible paralysing effects of an adrenalin attack (understanding the physiological effects of this and what to do about it is the NUMBER ONE thing that will conquer your nerves).
• Why you are the star of the show and your visual aids are there to support you (not the other way around).
• How to deal with Q&A sessions fearlessly, and how to handle difficult (but sometimes unavoidable) questions.
• Dealing with catastrophes (i.e., what to do 'when things go bad').
• How to end with a close that is both powerful and effective (most speakers finish with a whimper, but next to a great opening, a powerful close is the most important part of your speech - I'll show you FIVE ways to close with a BANG).

This is NOT some lightweight, double-spaced, huge font, fifty-words-to-a-page pamphlet masquerading as a book. It's a 200 page, 34,000 word serious work that can take your public speaking skills to the next level. I'm so sure you'll benefit from it that I back it with a 100%, no-quibble, iron-clad, lifetime guarantee. If you don't feel you're a better, more confident speaker after putting its contents into practice, I'll refund your money!

PLUS you get THREE fantastic FREE bonuses!

FREE BONUS ONE - Body Language & Public Speaking

RRP £19.95

What yours screams out to your audience and what theirs yells back at you!

Written specifically for public speakers, this fascinating book doesn't waste time talking about courtship signals between lovers, how Amazonian tribes say goodbye or how to read a baby's mood from the crinkle in its nose.

It concentrates on the things YOU are concerned about when you're speaking - the messages your body language screams out when you are 'on your feet', how to use specific gestures to underline the message YOU want to deliver, and how to read your audience.

Over 12,000 words brought to life by 152 full colour photographs of politicians such as Tony Blair, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Gordon Brown, Condoleezza Rice, Arnold Schwarzenneger, Ariel Sharon, John Kerry, Robert Mugabe, Rudi Giulianni, John Prescott, Dick Cheney, Vladimir Putin, Jacques Chirac, Silvio Berluscini, Jose Zapatero, Angela Merkel, Yassir Arafat and MANY MORE.

FREE BONUS TWO - Axe That Anxiety

Banish your anxiety about speaking in public and boost your confidence

RRP £24.95

Glossophobia (fear of speaking in public) is the most widespread phobia in the world, and even those of us who are experienced speakers suffer from it to a degree.

What many people don't realise is that the physiological symptoms they experience such as sweaty palms, shaking legs, dry throat, queasy stomach aren't actually caused by fear at all, but by adrenaline!

Once you understand the mechanics of an Adrenaline Attack (i.e. what happens when adrenaline floods your body), you'll be better equipped to deal with it by turning it to your advantage and using it to deliver a great speech or presentation.

It's also packed with great tips and exercises from the world of Neuro Linguistic Programming (What is NLP?) that will enable you to give yourself a confidence boost wherever and whenever you need one. Learn these techniques and you will have control over your mental state. It's like being able to pop a confidence pill. If this doesn't help you with public speaking anxiety, nothing will.

Even If You Don't Think This Will Work For You, ...... It Will

I know that you might be thinking, "Well, it might have worked for other people but it won't work for me ...." It WILL work. People aren't born a great speaker - they learn to become one. But Santa doesn't exist. You can't just 'wish' you were better at public speaking and he'll creep into your bedroom on Xmas Eve and place the ability in your stocking.

You need to do something about it.

How much longer are you going to 'wish' you were better at it and do nothing about it? If you read my material and put the scores of tips, techniques and secrets into practice, you can't NOT become better.

I've done all the hard work. I've spent ten years studying the subject, learning what works and what doesn't, taking the knocks.

Remember how in the movie 'The Matrix', whenever Neo needed to learn anew skill, he would simply "upload" the program into his head ... and he would wake up a "master"? Well, all you have to do is PLUG IN this information and start using it the very next time you speak. Your public speaking skills can, literally, change overnight.

So, how much does the Manual cost?

By this point you'll be wondering how much I'm going to ask for sharing all this killer knowledge with you. Well it doesn't cost anywhere near as much as it should, considering what it's about to do for your speaking ability.

Up to now, the only way access it as an individual has been to attend one of my public seminars, at a cost of £395.00 per head (and I don't deliver those very often; my in-house seminars take up a lot of my time) or sign up for one-to-one executive coaching (minimum of £995.00 per day depending on how many days you book).

Add the £395.00 to the combined RRP of £44.90 for the three bonuses and we get a total value of £439.90. Now we both know I'm going to discount that significantly. You might be expecting a price of £200.00 with the option of paying by four installments, possibly a bit lower at £149.00.

If I was feeling incredibly generous, maybe even £99.00.

But I'm giving you ALL THREE for the bargain price of £39.95 - that's less than 10% of their combined value!

People say I'm crazy to do this when I can charge £395.00 for someone to attend one of my public seminars. Forget the manuals and books, they say."Get them to come to your seminars!"

So why am I doing it? It's simple. They're missing the point.

You see, I know how good this material is. And I know that once you've read them you'll be beating down the door of your HR department, demanding that they contact us and arrange an in-house seminar for you and your colleagues.

So I look on it as an investment. The more people read my manual, the more organise a seminar.

It's my chance to show you what I know and how I can improve YOUR speaking skills (and if you choose not to give yourself an unfair advantage by keeping it to yourself, those of your colleagues). If you're a novice I can turn you into a confident, interesting, exciting speaker. If you're already an experienced speaker, I can take your skills to the next level.

And as with everything else I do, my manual is covered by my 100%, no-quibble, cast-iron, unlimited money back guarantee. If you don't feel they're value for money FOR ANY REASON, all you have to do is tell me and I'll refund your money.

Either you'll get great value for money or you'll get your money back (and still keep the bonuses for your trouble). So YOU CAN'T LOSE. It's like trying it out FOR FREE.

Sometimes people don't read things straight away, so a 3 month guarantee would, I think, be reasonable. A 6 month one might be impressive. A 12 month one definitely would be.

Mine is UNLIMITED. It has no time limit. If you want a refund in TEN YEARS, you can have one. I won't even ask you to justify your request. YOU are the sole judge of value. How can I offer this? Again, because I'm confident of the manual's content. I know that once you've read it you'll want to refer to it again and again, every time you've got a speech or presentation to deliver.

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