Prince Harry, the ginger whinger, spoke recently at the Clinton Global Initiative and crashed and burned.

Why? Because his teleprompter went down and he simply walked off stage half way through his talk.

Now, tech fails are common but this wasn't the problem for Prince Harry. The problem was he didn't have a back up.

In this episode, I go through what he SHOULD have done. Not just when the tech went down but also before the talk.

CCLM.

The Conscious Competency Learning Model has been around for decades and highlights what we all go through when learning a new skill.

This is the ladder of speaking success.

Unconscious Incompetent - Shit and don't know you are shit. Audience throwing bricks at you.
Conscious Incompetent - Shit and know you're shit. Getting feedback.
Conscious Competent - Good but have to focus. Decent but beige and forgettable.
Unconscious Competent - Presentation Rockstar.

I am an Unconscious Competent when it comes to speaking but I definitely started out as an Unconscious Incompetent.

In this podcast episode, I will share how you can push your speaking through the CCLM, wherever you are currently at.

And become so good at speaking it makes the audience gasp.

18 months into my career as a speaker, I got the worst feedback I have ever had on a feedback form.

Someone gave me 3/20 for a talk and wrote the word SH*T!

So I phoned the person who wrote it. That was a moment, I can tell you.

It was the best thing I could have done because brutal, unfiltered, feedback is the ONLY way to reach our true speaking potential.

But as a CEO, how the hell can you get that level of feedback on your talks?

In this episode, I talk about the astonishing conversation I had with the guy who gave me 3/20 and how you can get the feedback that will turn you into a presentation rockstar.