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Acting skills build business

Acting skills build business

The crowd-pleasing skill of an entertainer holds audiences spellbound. If you want to engage your audience at the emotional as well as the intellectual level, you have to think like an actor. Our acting coaches trained numerous Hollywood stars. They'll polish your Oscar-winning performance till it sparkles.

Acting skills build business: Don't just be convincing—be compelling!

All speakers are performers. Some are natural showmen and women; others have to be taught how to captivate an audience. But, just as an actor can learn how to make someone laugh and cry and feel joy, pain, or fear, so, too, can you learn how to hold an audience spellbound. Our acting coaches work with sales executives, business leaders, attorneys, political candidates, and scores of other professionals to develop their speaking and presentational skills. We teach them how to engage an audience at an emotional level—how to hold its attention and fire its imagination.

Acting gives you the edge in situations where influence and advantage count: boardroom disputes, high-level interviews, political debates, courtroom battles. The skills you need—of voice, gesture, body language, and attitude—are no different from those of a Hollywood actor. Indeed many famous actors learned their craft from our coaches. We taught them to sound credible and look natural. We showed them how to mesmerize an audience and transport it to the destination of their choice.

To wield that kind of power over your audience, join this program and learn how to:

  • Banish crippling self-consciousness
  • Develop your inner life
  • Focus your energy
  • See what the audience sees in you
  • Banish distracting habits
  • Use effective transitions
  • Write scripts and use notes
  • Own your script and focus on the audience, not your material
  • Use eye contact effectively
  • Achieve believability
  • Control body language and movement
  • Utilize powerful pauses
  • Structure your speech with emotional triggers
  • Connect with the audience on a deeper level
  • Feel the difference between pretending and acting
  • Manage the emotions of your audience
  • Learn effective relaxation techniques
  • Create conflict to maximize audience attention
  • Control your stage
  • Be authentic
  • Optimize vocal projection, inflection, and timing
  • Improvise effectively
  • Manage stage fright
  • Think on your feet

To find out how you can think and act on your feet, call us toll-free at 866-806-4366 or locally at 720-394-7999 or e-mail info@gurumaker.com. Call us today to make sure people pay attention when you're speaking.

Please note: No two programs are alike. We customize each one to meet your objectives. Whether you choose private coaching, workshops, seminars, train-the-trainer, or breakout sessions, we tailor the duration and format to suit your circumstances.

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