Speech, Speaker, and Audience

• Earning the right to talk
• Limit your subject
• Develop reserve power
• Fill your talk with illustrations and examples
• Humanize your talk
• Personalize your talk by using names
• Be specific--fill your talk with detail
• Dramatize your talk by using dialogue
• Visualize by demonstrating what you are talking about
• Use concrete, familiar words that create pictures
• Vitalizing the talk
• Choose subjects you are earnest about
• Relive the feelings you have about your topic
• Act in earnest
• Sharing the talk with the audience
• Talk in terms of your listeners' interests
• Give honest, sincere appreciation
• Identify yourself with the audience
• Make your audience a partner in your talk
• Play yourself down