Organize Your Speech

Original speech date: February 15, 2017

Project: Speechcraft / Competent Communication #2 (Organize Your Speech)

Over the next 6 weeks, I am helping Launch Pad Toastmasters run Speechcraft. We find people who have never done public speaking before, and show them how they can improve their communication and leadership skills. I am giving an educational talk on how to organize the speech, which I share it with you today.

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How many of you like grocery shopping? (survey audience; respond appropriately)

I love grocery shopping! There's something nice and logical about starting at the produce aisle, then walking through the meat aisle, followed by bread-and-pasta, coffee-and-tea, candies-and-chips, until I end up at the cash register (and have to pay for all of them). I find that—perhaps you do, too—the better the store organizes its products, the more I will like the store and buy its products. By the same token, the better you organize your speech, the more I will like you and buy your ideas.