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DADS ARE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES!


Scott Hammond is...
a.. A Parenting/Dad Expert (Father of 9)
b.. An Award Winning Professional Speaker
c.. A Published Author and Contributing Writer

THE 7 SECRETS OF EFFECTIVE FATHERS (Happy Fathers Day!)

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Good Dad/ Bad Dad -The 7 Secrets of Effective Fathering
Can you name the three great examples of fathers in current culture?
You can’t say Bill Cosby [...]

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Developing Dynamite Topics

 

I. What Is A Dynamite Topic?

A. One that people remember

B. Gets you booked

C. Not the same as a hot or trendy topic

II. Hot Topics

A. These are the same as they’ve always been
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9 Presentation Sins

Nine presentations sins—and how to avoid them…

Wasting time… Start on time and finish on time.
Boring your audience… Given key points they can digest. Don’t read your speech. Packaged information with your voice, body language and style to [...]

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Presentations

Before the presentation:
1. DO: Practice. Practice. Practice. Practice always makes a perfect presentation.
2. DO: Dress to impress. This shows respect for your audience. Why not? It is always more pleasant to
watch and listen to someone who takes their speaking and presentation seriously.
3. DO: Get to know your audience before the presentation. Meet at least one [...]

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Award Winning Presentations

Winning Presentation Skills ..
Put Power, Punch and Pizzazz into Your Presentations

Your ability to speak well is one of the most powerful keys to business and personal success. Research reveals that those with the highest incomes have superior presentation and persuasion skills.

In fact, [...]

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The Ups of Downs…Refined and Revised Toastmasters Speech May 2008

THE UPS OF DOWNS
1.RING……… HOSPITAL…ULTRASOUND STORY…PREGNANT WIFE
(THE $1M QUESTION WAS IN OUR MINDS…MR TM, FELOW TM & GUESTS)
2.  INTRODUCTION…What would be our LESSONS WITH GABE?
3.  RING…JONI’S WATER BROKE/BIRTH…Recovery and I went home
4.  RING…JONI FROM SACRAMENTO…JONI IS CALLING ME TO SAC
·        Joni is SUPERWOMAN
5.  MEETING WITH STERILE DOCTOR /NEXT DAY
·                    DOWN YES…MARRIAGES FAIL WITHIN 1 [...]

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Parenting is Like Sales?

How Sales Parallels Parenting

  Everything we do from our communication style, our dress, to our understanding of the customers wants and needs can affect our success or failure in closing sales. The way you close a sale depends as much on the product/service you’re selling as it does the [...]

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Planning Tools

 
MONTHLY PLAN – (Month)

ANNUAL GOALS: PERSONAL

ANNUAL GOALS: BUSINESS

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Wadaya Want?

Things You Want In The Next 12 Months by Dr. Richard Borough
 
 
1.     In the next 12 months, what’s the number one thing you want from your business?  Quantify your answer.
 
 
 
2.    What are the second and the third things?  Quantify your answers.
 
 
 
3.    What’s preventing you from having those things right now? 
 
 
 
4.    To get them, what [...]

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Do You Have ADD?

Denial is more than a river in Egypt.
I recently had the occasion to speak to a man who coaches business leaders with ADD.
My results were startling… I fit many of the parameters of impaired executive function associated with ADD syndrome.
It was frighteningly clear that some of my tendencies are associated with ADHD… here are a [...]

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