Prepare for Speeches
Career Companion
With Career Companion you can plan, prepare, and practice for your speeches. Treat every speech like a project and track all the important details related to that speech in an organized way in one space that you can always go back to.
Go to Career Companion > Q&A > Speech Preparation.
Use this kanban like the board to track the status of your speeches:
Take ~5-10 mins to capture key details about your speech
You can categorize the purpose of your speech in one of these four categories:
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Informative: useful information
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Persuasive: convincing people to change
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Demonstrative: showcasing a process or a product and focus on the 'how'
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Entertainment: enjoyment with anecdotal stories
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Inspirational: motivational
Write out the content of your speech
Three key things to remember about the content:
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Write an outline/bullets (not narrative)
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Know more content than you will share (Q&A Prep)
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Use the Speech Structure Building
Practice makes perfect and you can practice in two-fold:
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Audio: Record just audio to nail down the tone, structure, timing, etc.
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Video: Movie to video to focus on body language, delivery, presence, etc.
Capture all the feedback, so you can use it to help you improve
