What's a Prepared Speech?

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FAQ #24

What's a Prepared Speech?

ANSWER. When you join Toastmasters you'll receive a basic speaking manual with ten speech projects. For each project, you prepare a speech using certain speaking principles. For example, the first speech (The Ice Breaker) allows you to confront you nervousness as you give a speech about the topic you know the most - yourself! Each manual project lists the objectives for that speech and includes a written checklist for your evaluator to use when evaluating the speech. When you're scheduled to speak at a meeting, you generally pull out your manual a week or two in advance and put together a speech on whatever you like but paying attention to your goals and objectives for that speech.