You can read more about how you can understand your audience here. So, pertaining to our previous point, start by researching who your audience is going to be. But the truth of the matter is that you will need to research even more to provide as much value as you can in that short amount of time. I know, it’s only a minutes’ long speech. Related article: The Importance of Knowing Your Audience When Delivering a Speech Research It’ll just fall flat especially if your speech is going to be as short as 1 What he/she would want to know about me – how can I as a potential employee addĪbout knowing your audience and crafting the speech accordingly.
I were to give the same talk to my prospective employer, I would haveĭefinitely listed down and spoken about all my achievements! Because that’s I knew that putting out preachy messages or simply showing off wouldn’t be very well received by people of my age at a graduation ceremony. So, by understanding who my audience was, I crafted a speech as a simple acknowledgment, just thanking all the people in the room that day who helped me achieve those things. If I ramble on about everything I have done for the college, it’s just not going to add any value to them. When I sat down to write this speech (I had a couple of hours to write and rehearse), I thought that my classmates don’t really care about my achievements. To keep the speech short, about 2-3 minutes at the most. It was for other extracurricular achievements. It wasn’t because I was valedictorian or anything (my grades sucked!). I remember when I was asked to speak at my college graduation. Just pick one thing that you are an expert in and that your audience will gain the most value from.Īnd that’s crucially important. Don’t talk about start-ups, runningĬorporates, finance, marketing, etc. To make it easier for the audience to remember and to make your speech more impactful, revolve your entire talk around one core message.įor example, if you’re giving a 1 minute speech on business,įocus on one aspect of business. It’s not just about the time here.Īn audience usually forgets everything a speaker says almost immediately after the talk. That will give you a good idea of what your main message should be.īrings me to my next point… Focus on 1 messageĮven if your speech is 5 or 15 minutes long, you must concise your ideas down to focus on only one message. Ask yourself questions like, ‘Why is the audience even here today? What would they benefit the most from hearing?’. You simply don’t have the time to do justice to those topics. Taking the public speaking example again, don’t dive into things like voice modulation, body language, speech structuring, etc. I usually find it helpful to not focus on specifics of a wide topic. So your job is to figure out what aspect of this wide topic should you speak about which can be fitted in a short amount of time but is still valuable enough to the audience. People are expecting you to talk about public speaking, right?īut since you only have a minute, you can’t speak about the whole subject, of course!
The thing to figure out here is what part of that wider topic do you want to speak about.Įxample, if you have been invited to say a few words in a public speaking seminar, To speak about depending on who asked you to speak and, more importantly, why did they ask you to do so. Cases, you will probably already have an idea in mind about what it is you need
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