Stage 1: Strategy

A 1000 miles always start with a 1st step. But it has to be in the right direction.  Otherwise it’s now longer by at least one step.

That is why preparing for a speech should start with deciding which direction we want to go.  And that has 2 stages:

In this video we deal with the understanding the context of our speech: Who is our audience?   how long will we speak?  Where is the venue and what amenities will we have on stage? What are the expectations our audience has from us?

In the next video we will use that information to decide our goals and our call to action.