Darren LaCroix’s keynote Leave your issues at the door Sometimes we bring past audiences with us Brian Tracy – “what would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” Don’t go to your family for inspiration, go to someone who has done it Get the information from someone who’s done it before – don’t buy [...]
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Darren LaCroix’s Sunday session – Toastmasters District 22
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 LaCroix’s opening keynote – Toastmasters: 2012 Fall Conference
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 [...]
READ MORE »2012 TI Convention – Thursday EDGE Breakfast
Thursday morning started off with a free EDGE event for members of the World Champions EDGE. Mark Brown, Ed Tate, Darren LaCroix, Jim Key, Lance Miller and Jock Elliott answered questions from speakers who want to improve their skills. I caught a couple of the questions and the champs answers below: How do I focus [...]
READ MORE »2012 Toastmasters International Convention
The Toastmasters International Convention is coming next week, and I can’t wait to be there! There will be great speakers, awesome contests and lots of seeing good friends again for four full days. Here’s the schedule of events – http://www.toastmasters.org/Members/Convention/2012Events.aspx If you can’t be there, there will be some live streaming options, YouTube and photos for sale [...]
READ MORE »Secrets of the Secrets of Storytelling
What are the three most common ways to learn anything? 1. Figure it out for yourself (difficult, time-consuming, and a high probability of failure/quitting) 2. Learn from experts on your own (Books, Videos, other “learn at home” courses) 3. Learn from the experts directly The first method is the slow, painful, learn-from-every-single-mistake method that has [...]
READ MORE »Edge Summit – Sunday 21 Aug
Have you ever taken in more information that you can process? Some of the notes below may be familiar to you if you’ve read my blog before, or if you’ve studied with the Toastmasters World Champions of Public Speaking. There are some new thoughts, some mindset changes, and some of the best advice you’ll ever [...]
READ MORE »Toastmasters 2011 Convention – Darren LaCroix
Speaking “Outside” of Toastmasters for Fun, Profit and Club Building! was the first session of the day for Thursday at the convention. Has you probably know, Darren is a fan favorite, and the 600+ seat room was filling fast as the start time approached. Darren’s opening was fantastic – he started by wearing a bow [...]
READ MORE »Lady and the Champs – Retrospective
Affiliate link alert: World Champions EDGE. This link will take you to the Edge website, where you can see some free materials or sign up for just $1 for the first month. Ed Tate likes to say “Review your Keepers”. This refers to the notes you’ve taken, and he says that if you review your [...]
READ MORE »Lady and the Champs – Final Wrap-up
Spent That’s how I feel, and I bet that’s how many people would say they feel. And not a negative spent, but a “wow” feeling. If I could summarize this weekend in just one sentence…I’d charge you big bucks for that sentence. Okay, seriously – here’s the takeaway: Discover. Design. Do. Disclaimer: I stole that. [...]
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