Public Speaking - Write Your Speech But Don't Read It

Do you want to give the best presentation of your life? If your answer is "Yes", you must learn to write it before you present it. That's right, you need to write your speech word for word before you stand up and deliver your speech before an audience.

Now, you probably don't feel it's necessary to write your speeches before you present them. You consider it good enough to prepare an outline with all your key points, your stories and the quotations you plan to use. Then you practice, practice and practice some more. But, this method creates at least three problems:

1. You will never practice the same way twice
2. You won't be able analyze your content and
3. You will lose some great ideas because you didn't write them down

Having an outline might be goo enough and produce results but remember good enough is the enemy of great.

Here are some of the benefits of writing your speeches word for word.

• Writing your speech down allows you to examine your words and phrases. Making it possible to choose the exact words or phrases you want in order to create the desired response in your audience.
• Writing your speech down allows you to better organize the flow of ideas.
• Writing your speech down allows you to improve your speech construction. You can develop your opening, body and closing so that they enhance each other. You can be sure that your opening will get the audience's attention, the body will inform and the closing will call to action.

Warning: Although, you want to write you speech out word for word to work on it and polish it. DO NOT READ IT. You still want to give your presentation without notes or using an outline.

So, begin writing your speeches down word for word. When you do this, you create a document that you can analyze, improve upon and polish to perfection. And you will immediately begin to notice the difference in your presentations.

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