Presentation and Speech-writing skills

Like an essay a good speech must have a beginning, middle and end. It also has a number of different elements that you need in order to achieve your objective of engaging with your audience. The best speeches are carefully written, paced and rehearsed.

Think about:

• The Hook which is the opener/attention grabber
• Establish context/motive/stories/illustrations
• Get to the point
• Reinforce your point
• Close

EXAMPLES OF ONE DAY COURSE CONTENT

The Art of Successful Speech writing

• discussion on participants’ experience
• key issues and ways of communicating messages
• examples of famous speeches and analysis
• practise of writing, structuring and producing a speech
• exercise on writing to a given topic, a 3 minute speech
• individual speech writing skills overseen and developed
• writing and preparation of a second short speech
• review of the day’s training
• Q&A