This speech truly captivates its audience. Audiences are glued to the speaker. They often take copious notes, have lots of questions and usually remain after the allotted time for further discussion.

This speech is relevant, upbeat and helpful . . . and it is delivered with style, energy and enthusiasm! The speaker's enthusiasm for her subject and for her audience is contagious.

Even though the Sport of Speaking is a lecture/speech members of the audience walk out of the presentation confident they can, in fact, give significantly better presentations. They feel they will be better speakers because of the time they have spent in this program.

Research has shown that people are influenced 93% by how something is said and only 7% by what is said. The program is tailored around this research and focuses on speaking style. This focus, rarely found in this type of program is the foundation of the speech.

The audience is given a quick, non-threatening quiz about how people like to be perceived. Then we provide instruction to achieve those perceptions!

A series of tapes are shown to reinforce the instruction. They demonstrate the difference between the way people appear when they do not use the techniques vs. the way they appear when they do use them. These "before and after" tapes are a powerful tool and audiences truly identify with them. In fact, some are quite hilarious.

Creating content is another roadblock for many speakers. Audiences will learn ways to prepare the content of a presentation in 60 seconds or less.

The Sport of Speaking may be designed to include many other topics such as the rules for creating great visual aids, how to handling Q & A, and sometimes even ways to deal with the media.

As you can see, audiences can take away serious and helpful nuggets from the Sport of Speaking. Anyone who has been involved in this program will testify that it was fun and it was entertaining! In addition, they will thank you for scheduling it!