Last night I had a conversation with one of my mentors Darren LaCroix. During our conversation, we talked about what separates a good speaker from a great speaker. Guess what, it isn’t platform skills but your intention when you are speaking. This is a tough lesson for me to wrap my brain around. When I [...]

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Here is what I want you to do: Think about the most recent presentation to which you have been subjected. Be it live, on the Internet, or via the television. Without referencing the presentation, what were the top 10 points of the presentation? If you are like myself and can’t remember, then you are not [...]

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When you are speaking, it’s not about you. It’s about the audience. You see it in corporate presentations, professional seminars, and yes, even Toastmasters clubs…the speaker focusing on themselves and not the audience. This is the death blow for keeping your audience interested in your speech and it will cause people to not want to [...]

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Why do most Toastmasters and Professional Speakers fall flat when giving their speech? Connection, connection, connection. For people that are competing in Toastmasters or other competitions, if you don’t connect then you don’t win. This was made clear to me when competing in an Area speech contest many months ago. I lost because I did [...]

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