It happens more often than we'd like to admit. The boss asks you to fill in for someone to give a presentation. You forgot you had a speech to give at Toastmasters, or a slot becomes available at the last moment. You have some time with someone you'd like to pitch an idea to. In any of these, you don't have much, if any, time to prepare. How do you handle these situations when you have to "say it in six"?

This is an adaptation of a script for a one hour long seminar presented at what's now the Lone Star College Cy-Fair branch, who wanted someone to speak about Toastmasters and public speaking. Yes, it's another article about speaking basics, but I thought it might be worthwhile to share here.

Want to make a big splash with your audience? You need IMPACT! This article will give you some hints on how to do just that, using six strategies forming the word: Investing yourself, Mercilessly editing, Practice, Asking yourself what change you want to make, Capturing attention, and Theming your presentation.

Originally done as speech #4 for my second Competent Communicator.

This was originally a draft of a speech meant to continue the article series started by "Talking Down, At, To, With". It has been revised and expanded. In it, you'll learn a few skills for connecting better to just about any audience.

This was originally done for project #1 of the Humorous Speeches advanced manual.