We often spend countless weeks and days to conduct a thorough research and present a highly informative speech to our audience. With strong public speaking techniques like a speech structure to enable us to organise and remember our content, vocal power and enunciation, as well as engaging gestures, we will be able to retain our audience’s interests to a large extent.

But, if our audience cannot relate to the extensive facts and figures, and they begin to wonder what is the relevance and purpose behind the vast information that they have heard, will we achieve our intended speech purpose?

My advice to many speakers is to start with the end in mind. Why are you presenting this speech? What is your speech purpose and message? Is your speech message useful and valuable to your audience? What do you want the audience to walk away with after hearing your speech? Will it be memorable? Then, you intelligently choose the most relevant content to support your message and move your audience. Most importantly, you need to make your speech purpose and message loud and clear as soon as you can in your speech. And tie your content closely to the speech purpose and message from the start to the end.

Curious about bringing out your authentic voice, defining your public speaking persona and in speaking confidently to your world? Want to find out more?