Informative Speeches
Types
- Report
Describes the state of operations - Briefing
Informs and helps others perform their duties - Explanation
Increases one's understanding of a subject - Training
Tells how to do something
Techniques
- Link topic with audience
Give them a personal reason to listen - Start with the overall picture
Connect your main points to the overall picture - Emphasize your main points
Use effective transitions to signal when you are moving to each new main point, repeat your main points, or use multiple channels (verbal and visual) to make sure audience understands your main points - Link the familiar with the unfamiliar
Use comparisons to help people to beter understand your point - Involve the audience
Ask for a show of hands, stimulate questions and answers, ask for volunteers