"The Skills" eCourse   

A 4-part online blended learning program for all            

"And now for something completely different..." - John Cleese

Ever wonder how your career might be different if you were a confident and comfortable public speaker?  Have you ever watched a truly engaging speaker and said to yourself, “I wish I could do that”?  Have you dismissed the possibility because you've believed that speaking well is a talent and not a skill?

What if you could learn to be a great speaker for minimal expense, and be able to practice the skills without anyone's knowing it?  Would that be worth 5 to 10 minutes of your time a few days a week for as little as 4 weeks?

Understand: the vast majority of people who have to speak before groups engage in the same bad habits – habits based on bad advice and negative re-enforcements that often go back to unfortunate experiences from childhood.  Habits are not skills!

To be a really great speaker, you must toss out most of what you’ve learned about speaking in public and embrace a set of surprisingly simple physical behaviors.  No rocket science or sports or musical ability required.  No fuzzy logic or neuro-reprogramming.  Basic actions that anyone can be taught to emulate.  Together, these behaviors are known as "The Skills", and when you learn them, you will never look at a speaker, or the art of speaking, in the same way ever again.  

PublicSpeakingSkills.com has trained thousands of people from business, education, government and the clergy in "The Skills", and now we'd like to invite you. 

The great news here is threefold:

• All great speakers since John F. Kennedy have and do employ "The Skills". (Bill Clinton is a master of "The Skills", as was Reagan.)  If you’ve ever been really moved at your house of worship, you’ve experienced a speaker trained in The Skills.

• "The Skills" can be learned, meaning that no matter what you think might be holding you back now doesn’t matter.  Skills, as opposed to talent, can be acquired through practice.

• Employing "The Skills" requires considerably less energy and brainwork than what you experience when you speak the way you do now.

And here’s perhaps the best news of all: With a little self-discipline, you can acquire "The Skills" on your own, in both your personal time and while at work, and practice the skills without anyone’s knowing you’re doing so.  Only when you feel that you’ve practiced in private enough do you need to put The Skills to work actually speaking to a group.  And once you begin using "The Skills" in public, you’ll get a little bit better every single time.

Intrigued? 

Have you ever been to a large presentation, meeting or speech and come away feeling that throughout the talk, the speaker seemed to keep coming back and speaking directly to you?  Even though the audiences was in the hundreds, maybe thousands?  You will learn how to do that - how to make every member of a large audience feel personally engaged.  And as hard to believe as it might sound, you'll do that by using the exact same technique as you'll use when speaking to 2 or 3 people!

One of the great things about "The Skills" is that they are 'infinitely scalable'.  No matter what size group you're speaking to, you do precisely the same things - only the more people in the audience, the more positive feedback you'll receive for your efforts.  And speaking of effort, another hard-to-believe truth about "The Skills" is that you will be exerting significantly less physical and mental energy, which also results in a positive feedback loop as you physically display the confidence you'll be feeling.  

You see, the vast majority of speakers are not interesting, or effective, because they attempt to do way too many things at one time when in front of a crowd.  People who own "The Skills" have been trained to let go of most of the behaviors they engage in and find the peace and comfort of 'unitasking' - doing ONE thing at a time.  You will learn this in Lesson 2 and build on it from there.  

Don't let anyone tell you good things only come from hard work.  Most speakers work way too hard for their own (and their audience's) good.  Rule #1 of "The Skills" is that if you're working too hard, you're doing it wrong!

"We show people how to look good, sound good, and

look confident & comfortable just being themselves."

What you'll receive: Regardless of your current level, you can acquire "The Skills" by enrolling in our 4-part e-course.  For each lesson you’ll receive an email link to a specially configured chapter from our on-site training workbook, plus a set of exercises that you can practice anytime, anywhere, without anyone’s knowing that you are!  Included in your tuition are your own copies of our two best selling DVD's, "90 Minutes to Killer Presentation Skills" & "Conquering Death by PowerPoint" (which, alternatively, you can purchase from our website or Amazon.com for $99 each).  Viewing these DVD's will reinforce the skills you'll learn during the e-course, and by watching the speaker "do it right" you will also visually incorporate the ideas presented.  You'll also receive your own copy of the book, Killer Presentation Skills, which not only goes into greater detail in all aspects of the presentation process, but includes in-depth insights into topics not covered in the e-course.  You will, with this complete package, learn everything you need to know to speak at the 95th percentile of all public speakers today. 

At the end of the course, you’ll be ready to put "The Skills" in play in front of a group of your choosing, and feel the transformational effects of finally becoming the great speaker you’ve always wanted to be.

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