CH 12: Delivering Your Speech

Chapter 12 goes into great detail about what entails a great speech and things you'll need to complete "perfection". In fact, at the beginning of the powerpoint it tells us how practice makes perfect. As much as I know this is used amongst certain individuals to promote practice in harnessing your craft, I often remind my students and young athletes I train that there is no such thing as perfect. And that practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. How you practice is how you'll play....a common saying amongst athletes in sports. 

    Using the two p's will provide stability throughout your speech and give you the confidence you need when delivering your speech. Going into a speech blind is absolutely the last thing you want to do! Speaking from personal experience, I went into a best man's speech going off of the tip of my tongue and spoke for a period of time far too long than what was expected! Whether you memorize or use a manuscript, using the two p's will tremendously help in delivering a speech and ensuring you capture your audiences attention.

Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is a process I've had to use in my life growing up an athlete, playing various sports, and utilizing this process to provide advantages over opponents. However, when discussing critical thinking and assessing a speaker, I've never really given it as much thought as the PowerPoint breaks down. For me, I'm always far more concerned with the questions I raise in my head when I'm delivering a speech rather than what questions I should be asking when I'm listening to a speech. Generally speaking, I think when it's personal, and relating to yourself, you're far more concerned with the outcome than using your ears and paying attention to what is said when your listening to a speaker. As we continue on with the course and listen to each other's stories, using the questions from the slides I will try to dissect more information given and pay close attention to the details following the story.