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 [...]
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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 »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 »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 $1 for the first month. Ed Tate likes to say “Review your Keepers”. This refers to the notes you’ve taken, and he says that if you review your [...]
READ MORE »Lady and the Champs – Final Wrap-up
Spent That’s how I feel, and I bet that’s how many people would say they feel. And not a negative spent, but a “wow” feeling. If I could summarize this weekend in just one sentence…I’d charge you big bucks for that sentence. Okay, seriously – here’s the takeaway: Discover. Design. Do. Disclaimer: I stole that. [...]
READ MORE »Mark Brown’s breakout – Power Presentations
Editor’s note: this post is a compliation of my notes from the session. I’ll edit it in the next couple of days for better clarity. Great speeches aren’t written, they are assembled. The information you need to make that next presentation is already in your possession. It’s about taking those experiences and stories and assembling [...]
READ MORE »Lady and the Champs – Mark Brown’s keynote
Editor’s note: this post is a compliation of my notes from the session. I’ll edit it in the next couple of days for better clarity. Mark Brown gave a keynote called, Experience it in 3D: Tools for Making Your Stories More Descriptive He described methods for giving presentations that parallel television. Black and White, Color, [...]
READ MORE »EDGE Summit – Friday Afternoon
Editor’s note: this post is a compliation of my notes for the afternoon. I’ll edit it in the next couple of days for better clarity. After lunch … I mean Lunch in Vega$, the champs started the afternoon session with a session on storytelling with Craig Valentine and Mark Brown. To be honest, I was [...]
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Editor’s note: this post is a compliation of my notes for the morning. I’ll edit it in the next couple of days for better clarity. The day started with Ed Tate leading his customary “Follow the Leader” opening that involved some dancing, along with whatever it is that I do that is like dancing. Yes, [...]
READ MORE »Toastmasters: Training – Day two
The second day of training is over, and I think I speak for 248 Toastmasters when I say, “I am spent.” Today’s sessions were really great, and over the two days, I easily absorbed enough material for 5 speeches. In fact, I should generate some working titles while I think about it: How a free [...]
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