I often get asked why I care so much about speaking. I will have people tell me, “Chris, why does being a ‘great’ speaker matter so much to you? Our speaker John is a ‘good’ speaker, why does he have to be a ‘great’ speaker?” As a speaker devoted to learning the art of public [...]

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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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This post ended up being so long, that I am breaking it into two parts. Part 1 was posted yesterday and part 2 follows: If you didn’t catch my post from Saturday, the Lady and the Champs workshops give you the opportunity to hang out with four Toastmasters World Champions of Public Speaking and NSA [...]

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This post ended up being so long, that I am breaking it into two parts. Part 1 will be posted today and part 2 will come tomorrow. WOW! Last night I returned from the Lady and the Champs Seminar with Patricia Fripp, Craig Valentine, Darren LaCroix, and Ed Tate. The seminar was an amazingly valuable [...]

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New speakers often find themselves hitting a wall in their speaking. They start attending Toastmasters club meetings or attend a speaking workshop and see improvements, but at some point they will hit a wall and stop improving as quickly as they did early on in the learning process. Though a slowing of improvement is to [...]

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