If you intend to prepare a speech, keep these points in mind.
- Plan carefully and line up your points.
- speak objectively and never from the standpoint of your heart
- Information bombs- creating epiphanies
- Stories
Plan carefully.
Starting a task is crucial, but preparation comes first. Learn about the occasion where you will be making your speech. If you are unsure of the information, ask the event coordinator or management. If you are unable to complete any of the aforementioned actions, at the very least go to the venue the day before the event to get a sense of where and for what occasion you will be speaking.
This will give you a general notion of the location, and your mind will begin unconsciously preparing for the occasion.
Prepare ahead and organise your points.
Learn to write down your talking points on a little piece of paper, or at the very least, mentally prepare your talking points. This will enable you to improve your content and speak the facts rather than creating unneeded stories.
People in this world don’t have time to hear uninteresting stories. Avoid employing jargon; instead, communicate in terms that a 12-year-old could comprehend. Find the operating words—that is, the words that are significant and that you should emphasize—while you are preparing your speech so that the audience will remember those terms.
whenever you are telling stories give it some verbal vitality. Use some movements to help the audience understand what you are saying. interact with them by sharing true stories. incorporate voice modulation
Information bombs: Creating Epiphanies
If you’re dealing with someone who refuses to let you get through to them, the thing to do is to gain their curiosity, then give them new information that’s different than the ideas in their head. Here are the steps to take to get through to them:
Acknowledge their viewpoints
Ask them would they like to hear another way of looking at it
Share at least 5 different ways of looking at them (they don’t even have to be ways you agree with – they just have to be different and legitimate)
The reason this works is you’re just copying life in The School of Hard Knocks. The School of Hard Knocks, better known as Life, doesn’t discuss, argue or sell you on anything. It just does what it does and you either figure it out or you don’t and then suffer the consequences. This works in conversations the same way: Give them new information based on reality – not opinions, beliefs or polls – and leave them with your comments. They’ll either come around or not. There’s no particular time limit to it – they’ll either get it quickly, slowly or never just like everything else in life they have to deal with.
This is especially useful for people who don’t want to listen to you, don’t like changing their mind or other negative mindsets. Be patient, compassionate and loving towards them and let them be wherever they are in the moment.
Using examples
People aren’t as skillful at absorbing raw information as they do stories, examples and games. The person who knows how to turn information into these things has the capacity to be a great communicator at both the conversation level and the public speaker level. Using examples breaks down information into memorable, simplified and applicable forms of communication and contributes to the growth and development of the people you deliver these things to.
Stories:
Stories are extremely useful because they’re designed in exactly the way our brain receives and interprets information. That’s why the movie industry is such a huge business – stories have examples that include information formulated in ways that grab and keep our attention and allow us to incorporate it into our brain in ways we can use over and over.
The thing you need to be aware of is that stories can also bore people to death if it’s delivered in ways that don’t work. For example:
The Story Is Too Long
Doesn’t Match The Topic Or Context Of A Conversation
Isn’t Compelling Or Even Attractive
Unfocused / All Over The Place
Comparisons:
Comparisons explain how one thing is just like another. How a dog’s love for their owner is the same as a person’s commitment to saving people in disastrous situations. Understanding chess is the same as being a great thinker or shooting arrows is the same as being accurate in your chosen field.
There are many comparisons already out in the world. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to capture as many of them. You can simplify your speaking and improve your ability to communicate in ways that are impossible to misunderstand.
Comedy:
People can’t forget what made them laugh. The laugh itself makes them remember where they were, what they were doing at the time and all manner of things to remember, in addition to the lesson they got from it. Moreover, you build a good relationship with the people you make laugh. They’ll be clear that even if you’re a jerk, at least you know how to make them laugh.
Do yourself a favor and remember all the jokes and funny stories you can because they’ll serve you immensely when it comes to getting through to people clearly the first time.
Visuals:
People really get the greatest lessons from a combination of their visual and auditory senses. Graphics and other forms of visuals allow that to happen. That’s why PowerPoint Presentations are so effective. People remember 10% post 3 days after something was said but remember up to 70% of what was said and presented with visual aids at the same time.
In today’s world, it’s better to have some sort of visuals than not but if you can’t do it, find a way to communicate. It should be in a way that feels like you’re giving them a graphic. For eg., using staircases, pyramids and squares in your communication with others. In other words, use verbal pictures when necessary, useful or beneficial.
Again, as you create these visuals, remember them so you can use them again and again because this will simplify your language, keep people engaged and help you communicate in ways that’s impossible to misunderstand.
Games:
Games include pranks, contests and actual games. They make people become engaged mentally and physically. The physical engagement piece is especially important because you’re now helping them expand the ways they remember what you’re communicating. Hence, you’re including muscle memory into the mix.
The more of the 5 senses people engage in when in communication, the clearer they’ll experience your communication with them. In addition, they’ll remember it in more ways and they’ll see multiple ways to apply what they got from this.
All of these strategies can help you prepare a speech the first time you say it by speaking with clarity, accuracy, and impact. People will see you as a skilled orator. Because you add so much value to them, you entertain people. The people will value your speech.