Finding your voice lance miller
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The document provides tips for finding your message, stories, and preparing to deliver an effective speech. It advises the reader to focus on a specific aim for their speech, find stories from their everyday life, and contemplate their topic while showering or commuting. The document also recommends practicing speeches as if delivering them, focusing on the audience, and memorizing openings and closings for long speeches.
Finding your voice lance miller
- 1. Finding Your Voice - Lance Miller Finding your message What defines you? What do you really believe in?You should be excited about communicating the message you will be sharing. The Aim of Your Speech Your aim in giving a speech should be to change someone’s life in one specific way How to Find Stories for Your Speeches Try to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. Your stories don’t have to be dramatic. Look for important messages in your everyday life events/stories. How to Prepare for Your Speech Contemplate your message and your speech as you shower, ride, etc. Let your subconscious dwell on what your topic will be speaking on. Lance’s Favorite Speech Model The FLIP speech model – make audience think they know where you’re going, and then flip it around. Get your audience to agree
- 2. with you, and then flip their perspective by giving them a new way of looking at the issue. How to Practice Your Speech Practice your speech like you’re going to give it – practice the way you’re going to deliver it Advice for Delivering Your Speech Focus on 100% on your audience when delivering your speech Should You Memorize Your Speech? Memorize your opening and closing, especially if you’re giving a long speech workshop. How to Choose the Title of Your Speech Your speech title should create mystery. Your speech title should create curiosity. Try and work the title of your speech into the main body ofyou speech Advice for Toastmasters: SPEAK.
- 3. Don’t just sit in your Toastmasters meeting…speak! Sitting in Toastmasters meeting will make you a better speaker just as much sitting in a henhouse will make you a hen