As you develop as a speaker, you will inevitability become critical of your speaking and the speaking of others. When you turn that critical eye to the world, you will find that most speaking is just dreadful. You will then sit and lament to yourself, “Why are so many speeches horrible?” The reason is Intention, [...]

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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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With vast amounts of information just a few finger strokes away, the audience you are speaking to can sometimes feel that they are trapped in Borges’, “The Library of Babel”, where all of the information that has ever existed or will ever exist could reside somewhere in the library. It is your job as a [...]

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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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