Accountability: Personal Speech 2

Hello!

As the sprint rolls on into the final stages we're getting close to the end and I'm speeding up to see how much I can accomplish.

Recently I've had to plan many speeches for an upcoming life event. From my Toastmasters experiences thus far and general research into how to give a good speech I am happy with the first draft of my speech.

The way I'm approaching it is to go off 5-6 cue cards with an additional 2, one to open and one to close. Each will have basic bullet points for me to bounce off and build my speech when delivering it.

From my feedback at Toastmaster sessions I have a very conversational delivery and talkative style which I will attempt to harness and play up to when delivering my speech.

I have a basic narrative hook which I plan to use to integrate stories and anecdotes in my speech. This will give it good structure and narrative with a solid core theme.

In the past I've overwritten speeches wanting to deliver large monologues, overlong, overwrought and impossible to deliver well. So what I want to do is play to my conversational strengths and incorporate each of the points I want to get across in the simple narrative. Each will have a bulletpoint on the cue cards which I can decide to talk about or omit depending on what I want to say in the moment.

Am I happy with the first draft? Yes.

Will I need to redraft this speech, yes, I will need to refine it, but I'm happy with my progress so far.


Cheers for reading!
AT