The Speech & the Audience
Know your audience. Understand who you are approaching, interview some of the potential audience members, understand what they expect from your speech. Prepare your speech for your audience; you wouldn't share a presentation to the VP of Marketing with your daughter's first grade class!
Know and understand yourself
Think about your subject matter and research your own experiences. Perhaps you can make a personal analogy through your own life or experience. This makes the speech a bit more personal and pulls your audience closer to you.
Know your venue
Prepare your speech effectively by knowing where, when and how long you have to speak. Understand the gender, and education level. Also understand any other context information such as an outdoor venue, noise factor and location.
Understanding your venue, audience, yourself and your subject matter is vital to providing a good speech. Also, practice, practice and more practice!
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Hi Jo,
You continue to have one of the BEST blogs and My Space pages! I'll be sorry to see them go, actually. You've really done a terrific job on them!!
Dr. D.
Thank you very much. I have enjoyed creating and editing both sites.
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