Michael Buschmohle

MICHAEL BUSCHMOHLE

President, Applause!
Associates of Seattle
Superb Trainer and coach.  The
"Presenter's Presenter!"

ABOUT MICHAEL BUSCHMOHLE: A professional of many and varied talents.  He excels in every avenue of the speaking profession: Speaker Training; Media Coaching;  Speech Writing, and as a Presenter himself. Michael helps people across America communicate amazingly well. He's a speech writer (for clients such as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Washington State), a newsletter editor, desktop publisher, cartoonist, graphic designer, and an instructor at Bellevue Community College and the Police Academy. He's the creator of Performance Mapping, an appraisal system used internationally to evaluate employee job performance. He's a former hospital Director of Training, hospital meeting planner, citywide disaster preparedness meeting coordinator, and - believe it or not! - a former Roman Catholic priest and monk.

PROFESSIONAL CREDITS: Michael has videotaped and critiqued nearly 12,000 presentations of clients in business, government, education, law enforcement, and the judicial system. Star of several presentation skills videos, his speech coaching clients have appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America and the Today Show. He's been invited to conduct speech and communications workshops in 37 states, Canada, and Mexico during the past three decades. 

SPEECH COACHING AND TRAINING: Michael helps people - even the very shy - conquer their fears as they deliver concise, well-organized, right-to-the-point presentations that audiences understand and find both satisfying and convincing. Workshop participants and private clients learn clear, specific, practical tips for preparing and delivering oral presentations using words, visuals, voice and body language. Clients for his in-house, one and two-day training workshops include:

  • Cities of Seattle; Olympia; Tacoma; Bellevue; Port of Bellingham; Metro/King Co.
  • Washington State Judges; city of Seattle Public Library; Harborview Hospital
  • AT&T; Ford; SAFECO; Washington Mutual; PEMCO; Key Bank; GTE Directories
  • Police and D.A.R.E. officers; the EPA; United Way; FAA; GSA; Hospice of Seattle
  • LA Water and Power; Puget Power; Simpson Paper, Timber, and Investment Co.
  • Immunex; Advanced Technology Laboratories; Federally Employed Women

CLIENTS INCLUDE: Computer technicians, engineers, judges, insurance reps, CEOs, politicians, police officers, doctors, salesmen, lawyers, and students. He has coached professional speakers, authors going on book tours, a 1990 Miss America finalist (hearing-impaired Jennifer Wall); Olympia athlete Robert Shannon; and Helen Thayer, author of Polar Dream, the first woman to ski alone to the North Pole. 

BACKGROUND AND EDUCATION: B.A. in Philosophy, M.A. in Theology, with extensive study of business and management, media, radio and television broadcasting, advertising, sales and marketing, psychology, business writing, graphic art, cartooning, music, speech, and voice. He is also a board member if THINK FIRST helping children prevent head and spinal cord injuries. Married, with two children, his life has been featured on local Seattle television.

A SAMPLING OF MICHAEL'S PROGRAMS:

  • MEET, LISTEN, AND SPEAK:  How to create satisfying, highly productive meetings every time. (Workshop)
    Americans face two problems: how to make ends meet and how to make meetings end. Learn fresh ways to boost the effectiveness of your meetings - whether you lead or participate.

      1. Meet. New tips on using announcements, agendas, focusing on the "burning issue," encouraging participation, reaching practical consensus, handling conflict, and helping people keep commitments without having to nag. 

      2. Listen. Ways to listen with complete attention, use body language to aid listening, ask questions to gain information, support others' ideas creatively, listen longer and respond when disagreement arises.

      3. Speak. How to think on your feet and answer tough questions, speak persuasively and recommend ideas, give informational reports, use your voice to sound professional and confident, and speak calmly in the face of opposition.

 Can be a 6-hour (one-day) or a 3-hour (half-day) workshop. Includes samples of new meeting forms and handbook.) 

  • MAKING HORSES THIRSTY:  How to write and speak so persuasively you can sell anything. (Workshop)

      1. Write Persuasively. Write ads, flyers, letters, email, and brochures that promote your product, service, cause, ideas - or yourself. Learn easy ways to write catchy headlines, personal benefits, use testimonials and offers that inspire readers to take action - fast. Also a technique to make resume's irresistible. Plus, how to apply the best graphic design tips for good-looking, easy-to-read pages with layout, color, typefaces, pictures.

      2. Speak Persuasively. Market yourself and motivate others with the spoken word - at meetings and conferences, on the phone, before the media, in job interviews. How to sound convincing by using stories, thirst-generating persuasive formulas, voice and delivery techniques used by broadcasters. How to look good by managing body language and your speaking jitters.

(A one-day, 6-hour, workshop with fully illustrated handout. Ideally, participants would bring sample promotional materials or a speech they're working on for review and development during the session.)

  • LET'S GET GRAPHIC!  How to draw cartoons and prepare stunning, colorful visual aids for outstanding speeches and training presentations (and marketing tips)

      1. Great Tips. The best visuals and graphics are easy to understand. Discussed are content, use of pictures, key words and short phrases; use of short words, lists and numbers or bullets, use of color for highlighting and emphasis, size and boldness of lettering, placement of pictures, layout and balance, and graphic devices such as borders, bars, bullets, boxes and shadows.

      2. Draw And Create.  Learn how to make your own cartoons, easily, rapidly, demonstrating smiles, sadness, fright, surprise, anger, puzzlement, meanness, and sleepiness with both people and animals. Learn how to make stunning easel charts in ten easy steps. Discover seven tips for better printed marketing materials and learn how to create a personal marketing statement for yourself or your organization; then learn to turn it into a vision statement 

      3. Computer Tips . A computer is not a typewriter. You will learn how to use worldwide standards of layout and spacing and emphasis; and receive suggested varieties of typefaces to assure interest and clarity when using the computer.
      (A one-day, 6-hour, workshop with fully illustrated handout. Includes samples of cartoons and graphics and layouts.)

Interested in utilizing the fantastic expertise of Michael Buschmohle? You can't go wrong with this terrific, professional trainer who is an expert at passing his exciting yet practical knowledge along to his pupils with utmost courtesy and finesse.

A day with Michael is a day of phenomenal learning pleasure!