FastTrack Speakers Academy
Put your career into high gear!
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Is public speaking part of your job?
Do you make presentations to your board, to your staff or to your customers? Do you conduct training seminars, lead orientations, or facilitate or chair meetings?
Or perhaps you are or aspire to be a professional speaker—a presenter, a facilitator or any expert who speaks professionally.
Or maybe you're a consultant or small business owner who speaks professionally to gain exposure for your company.
If you do almost anything in today's professional workplace, you speak publicly. And if you speak with style—if you command the room—your career is on the Fast Track. If you aren't yet on the Fast Track, we can help put you there.
What is FastTrack?
FastTrack is a structured, 25-session educational course that helps take your career to the next level. If you're a professional speaker or small business owner, or if you want to become a professional speaker or small business owner, you'll learn about the business of speaking, how to develop your business and how to use speaking to do it.
All modules of the curriculum are led by successful professional speakers sharing with you their first-hand, real-world knowledge and experience. The class is limited to 25 participants to ensure learning opportunities are at a maximum.
If speaking is part of your job, you'll learn how to speak with style, how to convey your message with power, and how to put yourself in front of the audiences you seek.
FastTrack Speakers Academy will provide the knowledge, tools, support, and opportunity for you to grow a successful speaking business that reflects who you are and what matters most to you. Reserve your space today.
In 25 information packed sessions discover how to:
Plan for success
- Discover multiple techniques that help you uncover your passion and what your focus should be.
- Create a personalized business and marketing plan that provides a road map to follow - now and in the future.
Move into action
- Learn from successful speakers presenting customized programs with detailed handouts and resource lists - exactly where to start and what to do next.
- Complete weekly homework assignments which will require and motivate you to take action and implement your ideas.
Do it your way
- Evaluate which business practices and systems will help you run your business effectively and efficiently.
- Work weekly with fellow classmates to gain confidence about your abilities and the value of the services you provide.
Curriculum
The curriculum for FastTrack 2008-2009: Updated 0209
| 9/9/08 | Getting to Know Each Other / (Finding Your Strengths) | Noreen Reilly & Dennis Mahoney |
| 9/16/08 | Topic Development (plus research skills) | Abby Marks-Beale |
| 9/23/08 | Presentation Skills | Jacki Rose |
| 9/30/08 | Openings & Closings - Hooking Your Audience | Sasha ZeBryk* (6-8 p.m) |
| 10/7/08 | Developing Effective Keynote Presentations | Steve Shapiro |
| 10/14/08 | Writing Your Business Plan | Rick Brenner |
| 10/21/08 | Presentation Skills | Jacki Rose |
| 10/28/08 | Market Analysis | Margo Chevers |
| 11/4/08 | no class | |
| 11/11/08 | Developing Effective Training Curriculum | Noreen Reilly |
| 11/18/08 | Topic Development | Susan Keane Baker |
| 11/25/08 | no class | |
| 12/2/08 | Pricing / Asking for What You're Worth | Steve Lishansky |
| 12/9/08 | Branding Yourself (Differentiating Yourself) | Rich DiGirolamo |
| 12/16, 12/23 & 12/30 | no class | |
| 1/6/09 | Networking Skills | Debbie Hoffman |
| 1/13/09 | Media Interview Skills | Suzanne Bates |
| 1/20/09 | no class | |
| 1/27/09 | Planning a Successful Public Relations Campaign | Marilee Driscoll |
| 2/3/09 | no class - snow | |
| 2/10/09 | Stand Up & Deliver (Your Polished Presentations) | Noreen Reilly |
| 2/17/09 | Getting a Speaking Engagement | Joe Veneto |
| 2/24/09 | Stand Up & Deliver (Your Polished Presentations) | Noreen Reilly |
| 3/3/09 | Running Your Speaking Business | Rick Brenner |
| 3/10/09 | Sales | Don Zihlman |
| 3/17/09 | no class | |
| 3/24/09 | Writing Contracts, Protecting Intellectual Property | Gwenn Roos |
| 3/31/09 | Negotiation Skills (Asking the Right Questions) | Fran Goldstein |
| 4/7/09 | Internet Sales & Marketing | Dennis Mahoney |
| 4/14/09 | Speech Coaching | Ken Crannell |
| 4/21/09 | no class | |
| 4/28/09 | Product Development | Stever Robbins |
| 5/5/09 | Graduation | Alan Weiss |
Fees
| Members | Emerging Speakers |
Toastmasters | Non- member | |
| By 8/8 | $750 | $1,200 | $1,350 | $1,500 |
| By 8/15 | $800 | $1,250 | $1,400 | $1,625 |
| By 9/1 | $995 | $1,600 | $1,750 | $1,800 |
| By 9/08 | $1,250 | $2,000 | $2,150 | $2,250 |
Payment Plan
If you prefer, you can remit your tuition in four payments. Your first payment is due with your registration form. The next three payments are due on November 1, February 1 and April 1. There is a late payment fee of $50, so if you elect the payment plan, be sure to get your payments in on time.
Location Details
We meet at the Hogan Campus Center 4th Floor Room 406 on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Here are the directions to Holy Cross. Here's a campus map, on which the Hogan Campus Center is building 29. Parking is free.