Crafting a Speech

Step 0:

Know Speech Objectives

Step 1:

Know your audience

Step 2:

What's the Speech Purpose

Step 3:

What's the Key Takeaway

if applicable

Step 4:

Come up with catchy opening

Step 5:

Stories and Anecdotes

Step 6:

End with a bang

Step 7:

A good title

Audience can make or break your speech

Refrain

Sex

Religion

Politics

and anything considered biasphemous and controversial

Speech Purpose

Inform

Entertain

Motivate

Persuade

Key Takeway

Each speech needs a takeaway 

unless purpose is to just entertain

Takeaway 

One line summary of your speech

noun  /ˈteɪk.ə.weɪ/

Catchy Opening

The secret to being

a great speaker

is to take up the

empty slots.

 

Please !!!

Quotes

Jokes

Maintain a book of joke

The best joke is the joke on oneself

Questions

Don't ask open-ended questions

Some questions may be close-ended but

The best questions are yes or no questions

Shayari and Poems

But Translate

Kannada Gotilla

That's all the Kannada I know

I don't know Kannada

Stories

Stories engage the audience

more twisted the better

Maintain a book of Stories

Best stories are personal stories

Closing with a bang

Summarise

Quotes

Questions

Mesmerise

A  good title can enhance the impact

Quotes

Jokes

Stories

Books

anything else

Remember,

75% of your speech must be original

Its not about what you say,

its about how you say

Thank You

Crafting a Speech

By Prathik S

Crafting a Speech

How to write a great speech with good structure and content

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