Last week we looked at using illustrations to spice up your speech and make it come to life. We now have in our arsenal the Main Points, the Sub Points and the Illustrations. How do we string them together into one smooth coherent story for the audience? We will discuss this today. Transitions are basic sentences / phrases used to ensure the continuity between: 1. Main Point 1 and Sub Point 1 and Illustration 1 (let's call this Group 1); 2. Group 1 and Group 2 and Group 3; 3.

This week we look at illustrations that we can use to add life and power to your points. My suggestion would be to have one illustration for each Main Point. If you have time, you can also illustrate some of your key sub points. Illustrations serve as key items in your speech to bring out your main points. To make it easier for your audience to remember your main points. Illustrations are usually stories told with an emphasis to capture the gist of the main story. We can usu

Last week, we looked at coming up with 3 Main Points, no matter what topic we are planning to speak on. Today, we focus on beefing up our Main Points by coming up with Sub Points. My suggestion is to have only one Sub Point for every Main Point we have. That means we have one support idea to hold up our one Main Idea. Let's see how this can work with our examples from last week. How to Bake a Cake 1. Ingredients - Sub Point (Suggestion on where to source those main ingredient

Last week we set out a simple structure for preparing speech content. We looked at Main Points, Sub Points and Illustrations. Today we will focus our time on Main Points. For want of a better number, I settled on the number 3. Try to, as much as possible, churn out 3 Main Points for any topic you need to speak on. 3 is an easy number to remember and is not too few nor too many to remember, for us or our listeners. Always put your best point as Point 1 and your second best poi

The past 4 weeks' posts focused on the Why of Content Creation. Today we start to look at What should be done to set out the contents. Today we look at a simple template of a structure I employ for most of the time. While it is not meant to be used for all circumstances, it is simple enough and comprehensive enough for most occasions. My recommended structure for speeches is always as follows, a 3-point plan: Introduction Main Point 1 Sub Point 1 Illustration 1 Main Point 2 S