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Accepting an Award With Class, Style and No “Humble”

Guest Blogger — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:13:26 +0000

In accepting an award, you need to be gracious, grateful and humble. (But for heaven’s sake, don’t use the words “humble” or “I’m humbled.” “Humbled” is one of those “groan” words — seriously overused.) You also must be as prepared as you can possibly be.

What do you say?

What you are looking for, is to deliver a warm, personal story that acknowledges and thanks all the main players in your success or achievement. Ideally, something about you, something about the object of the achievement; and something about the people who got you there – and of course, acknowledgment of the sponsors/givers of the award.

What should you include in your Acceptance Speech? Think about…

Who are all the players? (Stakeholders)
Who nominated you?
Who invited you to join this group/program/event or encouraged you to get involved in this project or event?
What is your connection to this group/industry? How do you feel about the people and the organisation’s goals?
Why are they giving you this award?

Your audience will not remember all the details of what you say, but they will remember the stories you tell. Include a memorable incident, something entertaining or touching, relevant to the reason you are standing there receiving the Award.

Inspiration From the Oscars

When Russell Crowe won an Oscar for The Gladiator (2000), he dedicated it to “everyone who has seen the downside of disadvantage.” Then, when he received the 2002 Golden Globe Award for A Beautiful Mind, he gave credit to the people on whose life the film was based, offering special thanks to “John and Alicia Nash, for living such an inspirational love story.”

If you have advance notice of the event, you can ask how long you are expected to speak. The shorter your time slot, the more you will need to practice! (A smaller gem takes more time to polish!)

When you start to speak, look directly at the audience. Never read your remarks. Or, if you need to read notes, learn to read as if you are not reading. You can walk up on stage with notes, but, ideally, they should consist of a few bullet points.

If you are to be introduced to the audience, write your own introduction and give it to the MC for the evening. With major events such as the Telstra Business Awards, your personal and company information may be well known to the Organisers and the MC for the event. You may have already supplied it, so it should be up to date. For other events, your information may be well known, but you may wish to emphasise certain aspects of your activities or your business. It is strongly recommended that you write your own introduction to fit the event and circumstances.

It’s better to have a few words rehearsed and ready, than to be caught speechless — or worse, say the wrong thing or too many words! A planned speech can help you avoid appearing over anxious. So be gracious. Be modest. But, be prepared!

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Memorizing Speeches: Three Important Rules of Memory

Guest Blogger — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:08:26 +0000

After writing a killer speech, do you now struggle to remember the speech for your presentation? Studies show that the average person uses 10% or less of the actual potential capacity for memory. There is so much untapped potential which can be improved by applying three fundamental rules of memory: impression, repetition and association. Applying them will help you in memorizing speeches for your presentation.

Rule #1: Impression

The first rule of memory is to have a deep and vivid impression of the thing you wish to remember. To do this, concentrate on the task at hand, whether it being revising the speech outline or practising your speech. Quality of concentration is more important than the length of time spent in memorizing speeches. Intense concentration over a short time works more effectively than scattered attention over an extended period of time.

You must also have a clear and accurate impression of the thing you wish to remember. Pay attention to the subject matter and observe closely. Ask questions, mull over it.

Read your speech aloud. Visualise it because what we see, we can remember better. Use pictures to illustrate the points and help you recall the points in the speech outline. It is comparatively easier to remember bizarre and ridiculous things, so go ahead and be creative in expressing the points in pictures to help you remember.

Rule #2: Repetition

If you repeat it often enough, you can remember almost anything. Practise your speech ample times before the presentation. When you practise, imagine that you are speaking before an audience. When you finally get on stage, you will have already done that several times.

Retention is best acquired through active learning. Experiential knowledge is best remembered. The best way of memorizing speeches to use the knowledge and apply it often. The knowledge becomes second nature to you, thus remembering it will be easier because you are speaking from experience.

Immediately before the presentation, refresh your memory by looking over your speech and thinking about the facts.

Rule #3: Association

Our mind is essentially an associating machine. The secret of good memory lies in forming diverse and multiple associations with every thing we wish to remember.

Link your facts together by thinking over them and finding meaning in them. Weave them into a systematic relation with each other. Tie them together with a story. The more bizarre and ridiculous it is, the better you will remember.

Applying the three rules of memory will help you in memorizing speeches for your presentation. The more practice you commit to it, the better you will become in your presentation skills.

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How to Improve Your Presentation Before Saying a Single Word

Guest Blogger — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:00:39 +0000

You have spent many hours, if not days, preparing to give a big presentation at a conference or event. You have researched your topic, you are confident that your material will be riveting to your audience. And you have put the hard yards in, having practiced with great diligence. Are you feeling ready? Are you good to go? Have you forgotten anything? Maybe.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce…” What happens next? Is there any chance you don’t know exactly how you will be introduced?

In my experience, far too many speakers at conferences and seminars fail to pay attention to this important part of their presentation. Does it matter? Does it affect the way an audience may perceive you and what you have to say? You bet it does, as Lucky Luc would say “You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression.” So why leave the first impressions people have of you to chance?

You shouldn’t! Think of your introduction as a part of your presentation, part of the messages your audience will receive from you. More importantly, think of your introduction as an opportunity:

To set expectations (setting the stage)
To bolster your credibility as a speaker
To pique your audience’s interest in the theme you will address
To keep control of your message

Don’t get me wrong, there are many experienced conference comperes or MCs who will do a good job of pulling out a few nuggets from your bio and tying these into the topic you will speak on. But many don’t. And, in any case, you shouldn’t expect anyone who introduces you to know as much about you and your presentation as you do. And you certainly don’t want your introduction to be anything less than engaging — or worse still, boring. So what should you do?

Simple, always write your own introductions. Decide what you want to have said about you and your topic before you say a single word. Use your introduction to grab your audience’s attention and establish why they will want to listen to you. Be sure to keep your introduction short and focused on what your audience will really care about — i.e. how what you will say may help or benefit your audience. In other words, WIIFM (what’s in it for me).

The bottom line is – when it comes to your introduction, don’t gamble. All introductions are not equal. By writing your own introduction you will be doing the introducer and your audience a favour. Most people who have to introduce others will be delighted that you have made his/her job easier. Most comperes will be thrilled to have a script that reads well and makes them look good. And guess what? You’re off to a great start – first time, every time. Plan on it!

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Public Speaking Master, Eamonn O’Brien is the founder of The Reluctant Speakers Club and an internationally recognised speaker on communication skills. Based in Dublin, The Reluctant Speakers Club can help you to make the podium your friend in just a short time. To learn more, visit: http://www.thereluctantspeakersclub.com.

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Exceptional Public Speaking – How to Ignite an Audience

Guest Blogger — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:52:40 +0000

One of the most thrilling, challenging (and for many people) frightening opportunities is that of public speaking. Whether your job requires it, or you find yourself in a position where you have to give a public presentation, you may be overcome with nerves at the thought of standing in front of a group.

It’s normal to be scared. After all, most people in your audience would be just as nervous in front of a crowd. The great Jerry Seinfeld noted that public speaking is the #1 fear among people, higher than the fear of death. As he creatively put it, “that means more people would rather be in the casket than actually giving the eulogy.” If this describes you, don’t worry. There’s hope. You don’t have to be a professional speaker to give a good public speech. You can not only survive in giving your talk, but you can thrive in it. Follow these tips and you’ll be on your way to not only keeping your audience awake, but you will be able to ignite and move them to action. Here are some public speaking tips for conquering your fear and becoming an exceptional speaker:

1. Remember that anything worth doing is worth doing well. If it’s worth your time, and especially if you’re getting paid to make the speech, then it is worth doing it well. This is a great life lesson: Do your best, or don’t do it at all. Try your hardest. Don’t just phone it in. Your audience deserves better. So what’s the best way to do your best? Practice! There’s an old saying that goes like this: “Practice makes perfect.” Wrong! Practice only makes perfect if you know how to practice. So you have to learn how to practice the right way. Read some books on speaking. Take a course (like the one we offer at Inspire Coaching), hire a speaker’s coach. Learn how to practice right, and then do it. Know your talk inside and out.

2. Make sure you know your topic. Even if you don’t know everything about your topic, you should know enough about it to make it through your speech. But not only that, do your best to learn everything you can about that topic. If you have a Q & A time, or if people approach you afterward to ask questions, you will want to know more than what was in your talk. If not, you will regret it, and you will look like a phony. So do your homework, and know your topic.

3. Speak with enthusiasm. Passion is a powerful thing, and when we let it show (notably as enthusiasm), great things can happen. An enthusiastic speaker is compelling. You can have nothing to say, but if you say it with great enthusiasm, you can keep your audience’s attention. No one wants to listen to a “ho-hum,” apathetic, monotone speaker. But we will listen to an enthusiastic speaker.

Not convinced? Consider our newly elected President. Whether or not you like or support President Obama, his passionate and enthusiastic style of speaking captivated people and consequently…led to his election. (If you go back and track Obama’s rise in the democratic race, the moments that his popularity grew were times immediately following major speeches he made! That’s not a coincidence.)

4. Maintain eye contact. Glance around the room and use the 3-second rule while looking directly into someone’s eyes. Doing so will make your audience feel more involved.

5. Use humor in your speech. Even if you’re speaking about a dry topic, draw something funny into your speech. Not all of us are born comedians, so don’t go overboard on this if it isn’t natural. Why is this important? Laughter does a few things for us:

It relaxes us (speaker and audience)
It brings people back to a point of attention. Zig Ziglar, who gets paid thousands of dollars per speech, intentionally plans humor into his speech in certain spots because he knows the power humor has on a presentation. If you can make your audience laugh, you can make them listen!
It can be used to make points memorable. Again, what makes us laugh makes us listen.

6. Use personal stories to illustrate your point. Personal stories can be used to drive home your point. Stories compel people to listen, and are very effective at moving people to action. Using personal stories is one of the most powerful ways to ignite your audience. They may never remember your point, but they will remember the story. Anything that moves you emotionally (makes you cry, makes you angry, makes you think, makes you laugh, etc.) can be used. Search your life and stay on the lookout for these illustrations because they are like gold.

7. Don’t be afraid of silence. Pause periodically.This gives your audience time to reflect and think about what you have said. A speak who is not afraid of short moments of silence will recognize the power of silence. When used properly, planned pauses can create dramatic moments.

8. Memorize your speech. Delivering your talk without notes makes you look more professional and shows your audience that you have prepared. It also gives you more freedom to look into the eyes of your audience. But the most important thing is that it actually can help you speak with more conviction. Why? Because you have already prepared what to say, you can now have the freedom to say it without looking down at your notes. It actually makes you better because when you know you’ll be speaking without notes, you’ll be more likely to prepare yourself well. Plus, it makes it easier to keep your audience’s attention if you’re speaking without notes.

9. Own the stage. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time, so don’t worry about being perfect. Focus on speaking with great enthusiasm and getting your point across. When you’re the speaker, you have to own the stage. Realize that this is where you belong and you are the right person for this moment.

When I first began speaking around the country, I was asked to go speak at a couple of public high school assemblies. I was nervous, having not done this before. I spoke to one of my mentors, a speaker named, Lori Salierno. I told her I was nervous about this, and she had great advice for me: “Have fun. They’re just kids that need the message you’re bringing. You’re the right one for this job.” So, that is what I did. I had a blast, gave it my best, and spoke with a lot of energy.

10. Use handouts when appropriate. This serves two main purposes: First, it helps your audience follow along and pay attention better. Second, it gives them something to take home with them for later use or reference. (Here’s a tip: Put your name and contact information on the handout in case they want to use you again, or in case they want to tell someone else about you.)

11. Keep your speech within the time you have been given. Event planners will love you for this, especially if they are running behind schedule. Know how much time you have to speak, and stop when your time is up. When you practice ahead of time, you’ll get good at keeping within the time limits.

12. Start strong. You only have a few moments to grab your audience and convince them that they need to listen to you. Before you’ve made your first point, your audience is already determining whether or not they’re going to give you their attention. With this knowledge at your disposal, use it to captivate them from the first word. Don’t start off with some joke your uncle told you, find a creative, dramatic or energetic way to capture their attention from the start.

13. Take a class or find a coach. Always be learning and growing. Stretch yourself. Take a class on speaking, or find a speaker’s coach who can help you grow into the communicator you need to be.

Every speech-giver can become an exceptional speaker by following the steps above. These steps, along with your passion, your knowledge and some hard work can transform your life and ignite your audience.

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Marc Adams is the founder of INSPiRE Coaching, and has spoken to hundreds of groups all over the country. He is best known for using an enthusiastic blend of funny and inspiring stories that will captivate and motivate people from all walks of life. To book Marc to speak at your next event, or for more information on INSPiRE Coaching, contact us at 918-781-9834, or visit our website.

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The Elevator Speech – Your 60 Second Pitch

Guest Blogger — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:38:12 +0000

Have you ever been to a networking meeting, you hear the first person introduce himself and you turn to your friend and say, “What does he do?” If you’re confused it’s because people ramble on about themselves without much preparation or consideration for the audience. Nobody cares about your product or service. And nobody wants to listen to a sales pitch.

Imagine you’re in an elevator and you meet a perfect prospect. As the doors close you have 60 seconds to introduce yourself and attract their interest.

How do you succinctly and clearly get your message across when you only have a minute? You don’t want to ramble on and you don’t want to be caught off guard. A good elevator pitch tells the listener what you do, how it benefits them, and the results they can expect. Too many people are unprepared and focused on themselves.So the first step is to script out your message. Read it out loud. Then practice until you can say it conversationally. Time yourself. Thirty seconds is best but don’t go over one minute.

Begin by grabbing attention. Ask a provocative question or describe a situation that everybody has experienced. Talk about what keeps your listeners up at night. Then tell them your name, company and describe your solution. Your solution should answer their biggest concerns, issues, or fears. Avoid the temptation of telling them exactly HOW you do it. That can become too technical. Focus on the what and the why. Make your message concise, clear, compelling and convincing. And then stop talking. Leave them wanting more.

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Public Speaking Visual Aids – It’s PowerPoint, Not the Great American Novel

Guest Blogger — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:11:13 +0000

Public speaking is about connecting with an audience, plain and simple. Connecting with your audience, then, and giving them what they want, should be the goal of every public speaker.

I have spoken in front of live audiences since I was 7 years old, so being a professional speaker has been an easy jump for me in my career. Connecting with live audiences – whether as a college instructor, as a sales person making a pitch to a room full of prospects, an emcee, a keynote speaker, a breakout trainer, or a featured platform presenter – has been the way I have made my living my entire professional life. But it’s only been in the past couple of years I’ve begun using the slide show technology PowerPoint with my presentations – and then only if it’s asked for or requited of me.

PowerPoint is a fabulous visual aid. All speakers should be familiar with it and be able to prepare an effective PowerPoint presentation. Unfortunately the problem with PowerPoint is that it’s so easy to use incorrectly.

In fact there are so many potential user errors this article is limited to discussing and helping you eliminate just one. That one major problem I see with most PowerPoint presentations: too many words.

There are multiple reasons why having too many words on your PowerPoint slides is a definite no-no. But first let’s look at the purpose of a visual aid.

The job of a visual aid in any speech is to clarify or enhance a particular point you are presenting. As you prepare your visual aids keep that purpose in mind and with each slide you create ask yourself, “What exactly does this slide clarify or enhance and how?”

Some professional speakers actually argue you should never use any words on your slides. Why? Because as a speaker it’s your job to tell the story of your slides to an audience. I agree, images, graphics, tables, charts, and photographs can all stand alone without any written text. Yet, I believe well-chosen text can help clarify or enhance your slides.

Here are a few tips for reducing or eliminating “text clutter” from your PowerPoint slides:

Limit the number of words: Each slide should ideally contain fewer than 10-12 words for maximum effect. Remember, it’s your job as the speaker to explain what the audience is seeing on each slide.
Use compelling text: Your slides can ask a question, state a fact or statistic, provide a definition, or give a quotation.
Find compelling images: Search the web for free clip art, royalty-free photography, and other images to help illustrate your story or main point. Or use your own. (Note: copyright infringement is illegal – just because you find a photo, image or graphic freely displayed on the Internet doesn’t mean it’s legal for you to use it. Make sure you’re not breaking the law!)

Remember your job as a speaker is to connect with, engage, and give the audience what they want. Your job is NOT to read them your slides as if you’ve just written the next great American (or British or Canadian or Australian) novel. When you’re reading you cannot engage – you’re busy reading – and the same is true with your audience. If they are busy reading your slides, they are not listening to and engaging with you either. Engage with your audience and you will be a dynamic public speaker.

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The Persuasive Power of Words

Guest Blogger — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:33:42 +0000

You may have heard the communication study that cites words as only 7% of the message. Well, that doesn’t mean your words aren’t powerful. A good speaker and sales professional uses words to create pictures, evoke feelings, and persuade an audience.Think about it. Book authors know that the right title can make or break book sales. Harvey McKay consulted experts to come up with his winning book title, Swim with the Sharks without Getting Eaten Alive. It was a best seller.

Business owners will spend thousands of dollars on experts who can come up with the perfect name because they no the power of language.

You don’t persuade your listeners by pantomiming a message unless you’re playing charades. An audience is influenced by your words. In direct mail marketing there are certain words that will increase the response rate. Words such as free, gain, results, money, love, discover, new, guarantee are well known “selling words.”

But now there is a single word that has been identified as so persuasive that when you use this word you will gain a 50% increase in the agreement to the requests you make of others.

According to the book, Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, and Robert B. Cialdini, that single word is… because.

In experiments of people asking to cut ahead of others in line, the person would say “Would you mind if I get in front of you because….”

In most cases people would comply with the request. Even with flimsy excuses such as “because I have to make copies,” people honored the request. Following the word because is a reason.

So whether you’re speaking one-to-one, to a large group, or to the media, don’t just ask for what you want-give a reason and use the word because.

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Diane DiResta is president of DiResta Communications, Inc., a New York City consultancy serving business leaders who want to communicate with greater impact – whether face-to-face, in front of a crowd or from an electronic platform. DiResta is the author of Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message with Power, Punch, and Pizzazz, an Amazon.com category best-seller and widely-used text in college business communication courses. Blog: businesspresentations.blogspot.com, http://www.twitter.com/speakingpro

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The Biggest Mistake in Sales Presentations

Guest Blogger — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:29:37 +0000

So what do you think is the biggest mistake in sales presentations?

* Selling features instead of benefits?

* Talking too much and not listening?

* Not knowing the product?

In a recent presentation, Ron Karr, of Karr Associates, Inc. and author of Lead, Sell or Get Out of the Way,asked the audience, “What are you selling?” People responded by calling out their products and services. Ron went on to say that one of the biggest mistakes in sales is selling the “how” instead of the “what.”

“You’re selling outcomes!,” declared Ron. He challenged the audience to get clear about the outcomes their audience or clients receive from them. The outcome he presents to his audience is to “sell more in less time.” He went on to explain, “Most poeple spend 70% of their time talking about what they do when they should be spending 60% of their time in first impressions and qualifying.

As with all presentations, it first begins with mindset. How do you think of yourself in relation to your audience? Are you an expert? A peer? A trusted advisor? Ron recommended that people begin to position themselves as a resource. Selling is self-focused but a resource is customer-focused. Too often, sales professionals forget this valuable concept. People don’t buy unless they have a need or desire. Your job is to develop trust and solve their problems.

Whether you’re selling a product, or giving a status update, good presenters live by WIIFM-What’s in it for me? They know that the audience cares only about one thing-their own self interests. In other words, it’s all about outcomes.

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Diane DiResta is a speaking strategist and president of DiResta Communications, Inc., a New York City consultancy serving business leaders who want to communicate with greater impact – whether face-to-face, in front of a crowd or from an electronic platform. DiResta is the author of Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message with Power, Punch, and Pizzazz, an Amazon.com category best-seller and widely-used text in college business communication courses. Blog: businesspresentations.blogspot.com
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7 Different Type of Speech Introductions

Guest Blogger — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:33:26 +0000

Unless a speaker can interest his audience, his effort will be a failure. If your topic is not one of extraordinary interest, your listeners are likely to say to themselves, so what? Who cares? A speaker can quickly lose an audience if she or he doesn’t use the introduction to get their attention and clicking their interest in getting the initial attention of your audience is usually easy-even before you utter a single word.

After you are introduced, turn to your audience and they will normally give you their attention. If they don’t, then patiently look towards the audience without saying a word. In a few moments all talking and physical commotion will stop. Your listeners will be attentive. You’ll be ready to start speaking. Keeping the attention of your audience once you start talking is more difficult. Here are some methods used most to keep them Interested.

#1: Relate the topic to the audience.

People pay attention to things that affect them directly if you can relate the topic your listeners they’re much more likely to be interested in it.

#2: State the importance of your topic.

Presumably you think your speech is important, tell your audience why they should think so too.

#3: Startle the audience.

One sure fire way to arouse interest quickly is to startle all your listeners with an arresting or intriguing statement. This technique is highly effective and easy to use just be sure the starling introduction relates directly to the subject of your speech.

#4: Arouse the curiosity of the audience.

People are curious. One way to draw them into your speech is with a series of statements that progressively whet their curiosity about the subject of the speech.

#5: Question the audience.

Asking a rhetorical question is another way to get your listeners thinking about your speech sometimes even a single question will do.

#6: Begin with the quotation.

Another way to arouse the interest of your audience is to start with an attention getting quotation. You might choose a quotation from Shakespeare or Confucius, from the bible or Talmud, from Shakespeare, song, or film.

#7: Tell a story.

We all enjoy stories — especially if they are provocative, dramatic, or suspenseful. To work well as instructions, they should also be clearly relevant to the main point of the speech. Used in this way, stories are perhaps the most effective way to begin a speech.

With this information you should be on your way to be writing some amazing intros. Good luck with your speeches!

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Public Speaking – Organize Your Informative Speech by Time

Guest Blogger — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:57:49 +0000

Public speaking has multiple purposes, but all speeches fall into one of three categories. You can speak to:

Inform
Persuade or
Entertain.

Each has their own subtleties and organization patterns to choose from. In particular, when speaking to inform you have only three choices for organization patterns: by time, by space or location, or by topic.

Let’s now examine how you can organize your thoughts by time. A time or chronological organization pattern works best under certain circumstances. For example if you are discussing:

History: Depending on your topic, your audience may be interested in hearing about the history of your area of expertise. Using a chronological organization pattern you can simply break the main points of your speech into historical eras or time periods.

How to: When you are teaching an audience how to do something, a time pattern obviously works well, too. Showing a step-by-step approach makes more sense in this situation rather than starting in the middle and jumping around. Use clearly defined steps presented in a logical sequence to achieve the desired results.

Analyzing the future: Another opportunity to use a chronological organization pattern is when you want to orient your audience to the future and discuss what they can expect next with regard to your area of expertise. Often it is helpful for an audience to have the context of the past and present before they can understand the future, which you present as the third and final point.

When you organize your speech by time make sure you start at a logical point for your particular audience. Consider:

Who is in the audience
Why they are in the audience
What they expect to learn from you

Once you have determined what your audience will expect form your speech, you can simply organize your speech chronologically by what will the easiest for your audience to follow.

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