Matt Branstetter’s session – Want makes clubs stand out above the others Matt asked, “Raise your hand if you’re a member of the best Toastmasters club in Oklahoma” – about 75% of the hands went up “Statistically, some of you are wrong” 7 critical roles every club meeting needs to be successful – speaker(s) – [...]
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Darren’s Sunday session Check out his new product: Write Yor Keynote by Next Week Notes Learning world-class techniques You will be deputized coaches You will never evaluate the same again Teach these techniques as soon as you can Evaluate someone this week using these techniques World champion speech – practiced/recorded that speech 22 times – [...]
READ MORE »Darren’s session Check out his new product: Write Yor Keynote by Next Week Notes 1994 club meeting – club president Dan Jones asked, “Darren, what do you have to give?” “what do I have to give?” “Why don’t you a speech on how to add humor to speeches?” “People would want to hear that?” Darren [...]
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Tomorrow I’m launching the site for my Candidacy for International Director (one of 14) in Toastmasters International. Check out www.rob4id.com Or follow my candidacy on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/rob4id/ For more info on Toastmasters, visit www.toastmasters.org
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One of my favorite blogs is Redhead Writing by Erika Napoletano. Recently, she authored The Power of Unpopular – A Guide to Building your Brand for the Audience who will Love you (and why no one else matters). Great title. Great content. 5 stars. (oops, that last part is supposed to be at the end [...]
READ MORE »I’m feeling rather inspired tonight. When something like that happens, I seem to be bent on analyzing why. I’m not positive about that being a good thing, but it’s who I am. I’m not referring to any sort of cookie-cutter formula. I was really thinking about what it took to inspire me, and what do [...]
READ MORE »For some, 20 years of experience is 20 years of continuously learning new skills, gaining experience and becoming a seasoned specialist in your area of expertise. For others, it’s doing the same work each year for 20 years. In other words, one year of experience repeated 20 times. If there’s a down-turn, who gets laid [...]
READ MORE »Today was the annual World Champions Edge Summit with Darren Lacroix, Ed Tate, Craig Valentine, Lance Miller and Mark Brown. This was another great event and I’m just sorry I had to leave early (during the coaching). Below are the notes I took until I left: The first exercise was to write down our personal [...]
READ MORE »This year, I had the honor of serving as an Official Timer for the Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking. That’s right, front row center, baby! In a change this year, TI is using a laptop to serve as the official timing device, which seemed to be a PowerPoint programmed to display a green [...]
READ MORE »Lisa Panarello gave a presentation called CPR Strategies for Successful Networking. I really liked the depth of information and the specific tips she gave. Her approach of Connect, Pitch and Reciprocate is easy to remember. Myths of networking Having hundreds of friends or twitter folders Having dozens of people like your Facebook page Sending and [...]
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