How To Write A Speech in 5 Minutes Or Less
James Malinchak
Have you ever wondered how you can write a speech in 5 minutes or less? It's easy! You just need to know what to do. Imagine this scenario: People already recognize you as a professional public speaker. So, they already have a notion that you do your stuff well without even considering your mood or time for preparation. They just think of you as a person that can speak well in public no matter what the circumstances. In their eyes, you are an expert at speaking. So now, what if someone caught you off-guard and told you to speak just a few minutes from now? You wouldn't have anything prepared except your ability, flair, and finesse. Would you chicken out and come up with excuses not to speak? Or will you grab the opportunity to get another marketing exposure, get paid and deliver a great speech? As a speaker you should try to have formulated methods on how to create speeches quickly. Let me share to you my personal techniques on how to make a speech in 5 minutes or less. Maybe you can use it when last minute situations happen to you. Firstly, you should get an idea about the audience and their disposition in order to come up with a topic and approach. Investigate, as much as you can, into who the audience is; what type of people are they? Are they business people, students, or educators? Next, you want to try and anticipate the mood and disposition of the audience. Are they having motivational problems? Are they frustrated with current economy? Once you know who you are talking to, you can decide your topic and the approach of delivering your speech. Will you be funny, enthusiastic or will you be sober and insightful? What ever it will be, make sure it will be appropriate. This process will just take you a few seconds to deliberate. Or you could just ask the person who proposed you to speak. Usually, audience info and speech topic is given to you straight away. Now to the exciting part: Making your speech. Each speaker has his or her own method. Some, if not most, are doing it instinctively. If you still don't have the knack of making a 5-minute speech, let me share to you a basic trick to develop it. You can implement this and you can build from it and then you will have your own style. Fundamentally, you must know how to outline your speech. Here is a formula that can make it easy for you. 1. Make a catchy, attention-grabbing introduction. Start with a quote, amazing fact,statistic, joke, or controversial statement; whatever it is make it interesting. You want to do something unusual and different, so be creative. After a brief self-introduction, summarize to the audience what youíre going to be speaking to them about. Some sort of like a preview. 2. Make key points Making three points is adequate. In fact, people tend to remember three points easily. But you can go more than that. Just make sure to be clear. 3. Rephrase your points, quotes, anecdotes, or stories to support your points Rephrases your points, tell stories, quotes, anecdotes, or provide lessons that are relevant to your point. You can go on and on with these as long as it stays interesting and informative. 4. Wrap it up Conclude your speech. Maybe, you can give a story that can support all of your points. In the process, you should be summarizing the content of your speech in a notable way. That's it. That's the formula for creating a speech in 5 minutes or less. Once you know the basics you'll be able to create a great speech anytime any place.
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