Michael Buschmohle 

Michael Buschmohle

APPLAUSE ASSOCIATES

Open your next speech in 30 seconds or less and have listeners eager to hear you by applying marketing and broadcasting tips to your sales, business, and governmental presentations. Guaranteed results!

Travels from: Seattle, WA
Fee Range: Open*

Michael Buschmohle. President of Applause Associates near Seattle, he trains people around the world to communicate with amazing confidence. Trainer and professional speaker for more than 30 years, coauthor of The Effective Executive's Guide to PowerPoint, artist and cartoonist, speech writer and speech coach (his clients have won elections, appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America and the Today show), creator of the "Peformance Mapping" performance appraisal system, college and university instructor in the U.S. and in China. He was chosen by the organizers of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing to teach them communication skills. He's a former hospital training director and a former Roman Catholic priest and retreat master (who left the priesthood to marry and raise a family). He specializes in these topics, which can be delivered as 90-minute to 2-day workshops, or in shorter keynotes. Listen to what Alice Lockridge, Training and Education Coordinator at theCity of Seattle wrote on August 27, 2010: "Friends, if you EVER get a chance, take any class by this man. He teaches for the City of Seattle and many places around the world. He conducted the BEST 1.5 DAY WORKSHOP I'VE EVER BEEN TO, chocked full of good ideas. If you have a life story to tell, or a class to teach, a review board to appeal to, or the city council to address, he'll teach you how to do it! This  was great!"

1) Perk Up Your Presentations: Immediately practical tips to overcome nervousness by being audience-centered, how to open any presentation in 30 seconds or less, apply broadcaster's voice tips, write speeches, use body language, PowerPoint, answer questions, handle conflct, tell stories, end on time. Training available in half-day to 2-day formats, with or without videotaping. Michael has videotaped and critiqued 16,000 presentations the past 30 years.

2)
WorkTalk: How to Communicate in Difficult Workplace Situations. How to...
Make a fabulous first impression. Sound confident and decisive with the voice techniques of broadcasters. Write commnading e-mail and documents. Create motivating messages. Listen without resistance. Handle complaints and conflict and three ways to say "no." Be assertive with a powerful 4-step method for confronting any problem. Give feedback that gets results. Motivate with choices and surprise. This popular one-day workshop gets results and rave reviews.

3) Making Meetings Meaningful: How to make meetings productive and satisfying by building them around questions. Dozens of practical tips on purpose, product, people, processes, agenda, seating, leader's and participants' roles, meeting announcement, listening, speaking at meetings, making recommendations, making decisions, handling meeting conflict, assigning action items. Half or full-day workshop, or 90-minutes.

Clients for Michael's training include
Fortune 500 companies, CEOs, lawyers, judges, police offiers, politicians, nonprofit agencies such as the Red Cross, United Way, and Peace Corps. Also Microsoft, Starbucks, Philips, eBay, Boeing, WhitePages.com, Hainan Airlines, LexisNexis, T-Mobile, Expedia.com, the City of Seattle, federal government agencies such as the FAA, EPA, and the Department of Homeland Security. He teaches an MBA communications seminar four times a year in Beijing and other cities in China. He is the author of the 10-page self-published booklet Get That Job filled with tips on what to do before, during, and after a job interview. Type his name into google.com for countless references.

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* This fee range represents Michael’s standard fee. Local fees may be less than standard. Some speakers have committed to speaking for reduced fees or no fee one time per month. Contact Michael for an exact quote.

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Selected Topic Samples

  • Presentation Skills and Speech Writing
  • E-mail and Business Writing
  • Managing Meetings
  • Performance Appraising with "Performance Mapping"
  • PowerPoint and Cartooning
  • Listening and Dealing with Complaints and Conflict
  • WorkTalk: 9 Great Workplace Communication Techniques
  • English for Non-native Speakers who Want to Get Ahead

Contact Information

Mailing Address :
1823 216 AVENUE SE
SAMMAMISH, WA 98075
Business Phone :
425-392-1155