LadyAndTheChampsLast week, in part II, I shared fifteen specific take-aways from the Lady and the Champs speakers conference (and the EDGE members-only summit, which was held the day before). Today, I will share more specific take-aways from the conference:

  • You don’t give a speech, you deliver a speech.
  • Have interesting conversations with successful people
  • Record every speech you deliver
  • The most valuable tool is the one you use
  • Sources of humor
    • Tag-on lines
    • Character dialog
    • Our failures
  • You’re always too something for someone.
    Be too good for it to matter
  • Keep your titles short; use subtitles to explain
  • Give away a sample of your expertise
  • How to begin:
    • Develop a speech
    • Deliver it to people
    • Focus on one topic
    • Adapt it to different audiences
    • Have a combination of information and opinion
  • Keep the past in the past (tense-wise)
  • Use the “time, location, description” structure

Will there be a part IV? Check back next week.

Patricia Fripp, Craig Valentine, Ed Tate and Darren Lacroix put on an inexpensive yet incredibly valuable speaking conference. I look forward to attending Lady and the Champs again, next year.

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