Speech writing made easy

Overview

The workshop helps participants write a speech or speech notes that are interesting. It gives a step-by-step guide for writing a work-related speech. It shows how to generate interesting ideas for the opening and closing as well as giving a variety of structures to build a speech around. Participants will also critique parts of famous speeches to learn successful techniques they can adapt for their use.

Course Content

The workshop covers the nature of speeches, where to get good ideas for the speech, how to start and finish as well as how to structure the speech. The workshop also explores how to find out what the speaker wants, what factors must be taken into consideration, how to suit the speech to the audience and the occasion, and how to write speech notes.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course attendees should be able to:

• identify the key characteristics of a speech
• understand the way the speaker and the occasion interact
• write a strong opening and closing
• structure their speech to suit their purpose
• make their speech interesting
• write a speech the speaker will feel comfortable giving.

Benefits to your organisation

• staff prepare useful drafts that require less rewriting
• speech writing is less time consuming

Benefits to you

• more confidence and skills in preparing interesting speeches and speech notes
• less time spent on speech writing