If you spend your time chasing the Perfect Speech Delivery you’ll be more exhausted and frustrated than Captain Ahab! The best communicators know that perfection isn’t possible – but they still practice their work dozens of times before presenting.
Nothing replaces practice when you need to deliver a mic-dropping, out-of-their-seats-clapping, brought-everyone-to-tears speech. And in this case, practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes flexible.
Hear me out: rehearsing a speech dozens, if not hundreds of times is what enables the best speakers to make jokes and handle tech snafus with wit and grace. You don’t have to worry about getting off track, because you’ve already memorized the terrain.
This also helps you adapt to the needs and interests of your audience in real time, and it gives you the space to deliver the speech the way you want to in the moment, rather than stressing that it isn’t sounding like your trial run in front of the bathroom mirror!
The ultimate key to successful speaking and writing time after time is to have someone in your corner offering radically honest feedback. Finding a good communication coach is just one step you can make toward meeting your goals.
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