Tips For Creating a Dynamic Speech

First in a series of 3 articles about designing, staging and

delivering a dynamite speech

• • Be clear about your vision / message. It is the backbone of your talk.
  • Know your audience. The speech is for them. If you don’t know anything about who they are – you can’t reach them.
  • Don’t try and write your speech perfectly the first time. Brilliance rarely comes the first time out.
  • Make sure you have a dynamite intro. Tell them what they are going to hear, why it matters to them and who the heck you are to be calling yourself an expert in this area.
  • Have an equally dynamite closing.
  • Have a solid skeleton of a speech, and then flesh it out with stories, humour and a clear sense of what you are communicating.
  • Get your speech ‘up on it’s feet’ well in advance of the presentation day. We write differently than we speak, so what might look great on paper may not flow so well verbally.
  • Do a read through for a colleague to make sure that what makes sense to you makes sense.

• • Write for different personality styles.
  • Visualize using all your senses as part of your writing process.
  • Have faith in who you are and your message.

Next article: Rehearing and Staging your Dynamite Speech

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