The projects in this manual help you explore and develop skills in various type of entertaining speeches, with different goals, from humor to drama, from short to long. Because each project is many times longer than a standard speech project, doing any project from this manual in a regular meeting means there is no time for any other activities.
It is all about material selection and presentation. These are great speeches to give when visiting another club since they are a great change of pace for most clubs. Toastmasters International Explore. Write them down, then brainstorm what facts are available to support your claims.
This is why we plan. Make it count. Start your speech off with a quote, statistic, or a story. Quotes, statistics, and stories, while seemingly dry on paper, can quickly engage an audience and get them excited about your project.
Your thesis is simply a summary of your main points—think big picture. Aristotle had it right —tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them.
That rhetorical approach to speeches is most visible in the preview. The preview outlines your main points. It might look something like this:. The best way to keep your audience on track for the last few bits of your presentation is to summarize and close. Two of the simplest closes are asking for questions or thanking your team mates. Jumping from point to point can get choppy. A transition is pretty easy—it reminds the audience of what topic you just covered and then directs them toward your next point.
Some speeches are funny. Some speeches are exciting. Other speeches manage to take incredibly dry information and make it engaging. Your delivery should be clear. And you should be concrete: make sure you provide your team with action items and descriptive language that helps them move forward. You and your presentation have already been through a lot.
You must practice. Practicing helps presenters narrow down their speech even more than picking through it for clarity and obscure language. Words that sound great on paper might feel awkward to speak out loud. The transition that you thought was killer might fall flat upon delivery. That awesome joke that you thought would be an ice breaker? It can sound pretty dead in a room with no people or an unresponsive audience. Practicing your speech is the only way to bulletproof yourself against foreseeable problems.
I recommend speaking extemporaneously. You should have your outline ready to be transferred to notecards you are probably the only person in the room that thinks it looks silly or to be printed out in large readable text.
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