Briefings Audio Conference

What a name--the Murder Board! It sounds like something Tony Soprano might convene, doesn't it? But, despite the macabre name, it has nothing to do with a criminal act and everything to do with becoming a better public speaker and a more persuasive business presenter.

So just what is a Murder Board and what is in NOT? It is not just an informal bull session with friends tossing questions like a batting practice pitcher. It is a realistic simulation of the actual presentation to be made, with colleagues playing hardball.

If you want to become an effective and persuasive presenter who gets bosses and clients to buy-in, The Murder Board is the most effective shortcut to such outcomes. This realistic practice session allows you to make your mistakes when they don't count, increasing the odds that you will shine when the actual presentation is made.

In this audio conference, Larry Tracy will explain how the Murder Board is used in the US military, where the term originated, and how it has been adopted by corporations, government agencies, lawyers preparing clients, and even judges being considered for the Supreme Court. He brings to this audio conference the experience of personally enduring and also conducting hundred of Murder Boards when he headed the Pentagon’s top briefing team, and later when he debated controversial policy issue for the State Department.

Join us for a 90-minute audio conference as Larry addresses the seven steps he teaches in his workshops, a systematic method designed to achieve “buy-in” for your ideas and proposals.

Presented By

Larry Tracy
President
Tracy Presentation Skills

Larry Tracy has been cited in publications such as the Information Please Business Almanac and What to Say When You’re Dying on the Platform as one of the top presentation skills coaches in he country. He brings not just theory to his training, but very real “been there, done that” experience. His book, The Shortcut to Persuasive Presentations, published by Imprint Books, Charleston, SC, and available for purchase from his website, distills the techniques he teaches in his executive workshops, including how to conduct a Murder Board to ensure delivering winning presentations responsive to the needs of the audience.

President Ronald Reagan described him as “An extraordinarily effective speaker.” At the time, he was an Army colonel assigned to the State Department, debating controversial foreign policy issues throughout the country before skeptical and frequently hostile audiences. He formerly served as Chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Presentations Branch, the Pentagon’s top briefing team, responsible for daily intelligence presentations to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, other Defense Department officials and Congressional staffs.

His photo was the cover of the July 2005 issue of Douglas Publications’ American Speaker magazine, the leading publication on public speaking in the country. His speech “Taming Hostile Audiences: Persuading Those Who Would Rather Jeer Than Cheer was the centerpiece of the issue, and described by editor Aram Baskian, Jr. as “an outstanding speech…teaching a number of invaluable lessons in how to give a winning performance, even to the most hostile of audiences.” The speech had originally been delivered in January 2005 to the Washington, D.C Chapter of the National Speakers Association, and was subsequently published in the March 1, 2005 Vital Speeches of the Day, along with speeches by President Bush and then-Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan.

Larry’s website, www.tracy-presentation.com, as of July 2006, has been in the number one position on Google for 21 consecutive months in response to the search for “Persuasive Presentations.”

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