Month: August 2011

Meredith Bell: “Work on Yourself”

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With Meredith Bell

For more than three decades, Meredith Bell of Newport News, Virginia has been a leader in fostering personal and professional development. In “The Communication Corner” on WBCX-FM, co-host Kristina Rhoades and I hosted Meredith for a very informative hour. Meredith described what she has learned by serving top-caliber individual and corporate clients.

Among the topics we covered:
–Working harder on ourselves than on our job
–Meeting the challenge of changing our habits
–How to give constructive feedback
–Why employees value compliments so highly
–A lesson learned when stung by a yellow jacket
–Steps toward discovering your “top strength”
–Her F-A-R formula for making improvements
–“Rewiring the brain” so you can make changes
–Role of mentors and coaches in our development

HEAR MY INTERVIEW WITH MEREDITH
Click the arrow near the bottom of this page, located just above the Audio MP3 lettering. You’ll hear our full 60 minute interview.

RESPOND WITH YOUR COMMENTS
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CONTACT MEREDITH
To learn more about her company’s services and products–especially the ProStar Coach system:

E-mail: mailto:meredith@prostarcoach.com

Web site: http://tinyurl.com/44hw7vk

Meredith will welcome your inquiries.

GET VALUABLE SPEAKING TIPS AND STRATEGIES FROM MY NEW FACEBOOK BUSINESS PAGE
Meredith Bell’s WBCX highly articulate interview demonstrated the professional advantage you have when you can speak clearly and compellingly,to an audience you’re facing or even on radio or TV. So I encourage you to consider my Speech Coaching service. Here’s the link to my new Facebook business page, titled: “Dr. Bill Lampton- Speech Coach for Champions”
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How to Lighten Up When You Speak

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You hear so much advice about giving speeches, such as:
–Don’t say “uh”
–This speech is very important for your career. . .in fact it’s critical
–Be sure not to leave out anything significant
–Rehearse your speech aloud several times
–Don’t refer to your notes very often
–Enunciate clearly
–Our most important clients will be at this meeting
–Vary your speaking rate

Well, no wonder we get so uptight about making a speech. Our colleagues tell us this is a “do or die” situation, so we start believing that ourselves. Plus, we get overwhelmed by the instructions and tips well-meaning advisers offer. To borrow a sports phrase, we fall victim to “paralysis by analysis.”

That’s why I encourage you to watch this video on how to lighten up when you speak.

FOR MORE SPEAKING GUIDELINES, ORDER MY AUDIO CD
You’ll hear additional helpful advice when you order my audio CD, “How to Speak with Poise, Power, and Persuasion.” This CD summarizes the keys I share with my coaching clients, and include in the presentation skills seminar I direct for corporations.

To place your order, notice that you can click the blue link under the video. That takes you to my Web site’s shopping cart. Scroll down until you see the CD description

Or you can click on this link to get to my shopping cart:
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