The Purpose of Prepared and Impromptu Talks

• Making the short talk to get action
• Give your example, an incident from your life
• Build your example upon a single personal experience
• Start your talk with a detail of your example
• Fill your example with relevant detail
• Relieve your experience as you relate it
• State your point, what you want the audience to do
• Make the point brief and specific
• Make the point easy for listeners to do
• State the point with force and conviction
• Give the reason or benefit the audience may expect
• Be sure the reason is relevant to the example
• Be sure to stress one reason--and one only
• Making the talk to inform
• Restrict your subject to fit the time at your disposal
• Arrange your ideas in sequence
• Enumerate your points as you make them
• Compare the strange with the familiar
• Turn a fact into a picture
• Avoid technical terms
• Use visual aids
• Make the talk to convince
• Win confidence by deserving it
• Get a yes-response
• Speak with contagious enthusiasm
• Show respect and affection for your audience
• Begin in a friendly way
• Make impromptu talks
• Practice impromptu speaking
• Be mentally ready to speak impromptu
• Get into an example immediately
• Speak with animation and force
• Use the principle of the here and now
• Don't talk impromptu--give an impromptu talk