Strategies for Public Speaking: Preparation

00:01 How to prepare a speech.

00:02 In a nutshell, do the following Brainstorm on every message you could say to this audience on the topic at hand.

00:09 Narrow it down to the top five.

00:11 Brainstorm on a story or two and an example for each message point.

00:18 Come up with a fact or a number for each message point.

00:22 Then have a simple one page outline that has no more than three or four words per line.

00:30 Then practice the speech on video.

00:34 It can be your own cell phone.

00:36 Keep practicing and tell you like it.

00:39 If you do that, you will be ahead of 95% of the public speakers in the world.