This concludes our course on how to give an effective informational speech. What I hope you really took away is the idea of it's not about what comes out of your mouth. Or even if you have great eye contact. It's about can you get people to actually understand and remember the ideas, the information you're trying to convey. And the biggest problem most people have is they just try to convey way too much information. They're not using their judgment.

So you're not going to make that mistake, you're going to really use your judgment to figure out what are the handful of ideas, the information, this audience really has to know. And then spend your time making it more understandable making it more memorable with examples with case studies and stories. The most effective tool of all, if you do that, and you actually practice on video and get to the point where you like what you see, you're going to be in good shape and if you really want to take it up a notch and just completely Eliminate the chance of failure. you test your informational speech in advance on people, you find three or four colleagues who are representative of the audience, you'll be speaking to send them the video and see if they get the information you're after they get it. You are ready, and you're going to succeed.

If your test audience doesn't get it well, it's time to make more changes. To lift the hood up, get back into that speech and make it more memorable, come up with more examples and better case studies. keep doing it until you're satisfied with how you like it and how your sample audience likes that do that and you will be great at giving informational speeches. Good luck.