Have you been watching the Olympics? Which event is your favorite? What is the most compelling part of the broadcasts for you? Many people who don’t normally watch sports, will watch the Olympics. We even watch events that we would normally have no interest in. The competition is always intriguing, but it’s the stories behind [...]
What kind of audience intimidates you most? How do you feel when you wake up that morning to face them? What goes through your mind? We all have our favorite audiences and because they are our favorites it is easy to connect with them. We are opened to it. Our mindset is different when approaching [...]
Do you know that when you give a speech, it’s much more than just a speech? Whenever my ego started getting in the way, my coach, Mark Brown, put me back on track in a powerful way. He simply reminded me, “Darren, you will get the privilege of seven minutes in 2000 lives, what will [...]
Do you realize that every presentation is different, even though you are the same person? Even if your words are exactly the same and you have the same intention, it’s still slightly different each time. Do you know why? Do you see them? I mean, like Avatar, “See them?” During my 14 hour flight to [...]
Have you ever seen someone give a speech, and they weren’t connected to the audience? They were saying the words, but somehow you knew they were not fully “present.” Ever given one of those? Do you know what’s happening? Many times, it means that the presenter is up in their own head, thinking of what [...]
Would you like to connect deeper with your audience every time you present? Here’s the problem. Most speakers will spend hours and hours preparing their presentation and rarely take the time to prepare their mindset just before they step in front of an audience. This is true whether it is a formal presentation, a one-on-one [...]
Have you ever been on stage and looked out in the audience to see a woman in the second row grinning from ear-to-ear, wrapped in attention? Then you look over to the left and three rows behind her, you see a man with his arms crossed, wearing a face of stone. It gets worse! You [...]
What did you think? Do you agree? Disagree? What idea did you like? What will you make part of your strategy? Darren LaCroix learned how to be funny the hard way by experience. He is a keynote speaker with a thriving publc speaking career. He authored books, CD’s, DVD’s, & other public speaking courses. He [...]
The following happened when I was in Orlando a few days ago. It bugged me so much I had to write about it. So there I was, along with Dave, standing in the front of an almost empty meeting room. Dave had heard me speak to a group of managerial accountants in Boston. It went [...]
