What is an acronym? an acronym is an abbreviation Spoken like a word. You probably are familiar with many of the acronyms that are in common use, such as CIA for the Central Intelligence Agency, or UNESCO for United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. The acronyms can also help you to make your speech more memorable for your audience. design your speech with a word. Take a word that is relevant to your speech and important to the audience and use it as an acronym.
By creating a structure of concepts each starting with a letter of work. You can do this with almost any word. Here's an example of this method from the Brian Tracy's book speak to when starting from the word Success. Brian Tracy explains how to organize a speech about success around this acronym. The first letter S stands for a sense of purpose. I then explained the importance of having clear specific goals before you begin.
The second letter U stands for you are responsible. I explain that you must take charge of your life and career and you must refuse to make any excuses. The third letter C stands for customer satisfaction, you must clearly identify your ideal customer, decide what you can do to win her over and satisfy her better than your competitor can. The fourth letter C stands for creativity. I explained the importance of finding better, faster, cheaper ways to promote and sell your product in today's market. The fifth letter E stands for excellence you must become absolutely excellent What you do and continually strive to improve the six letter S stands for sensitivity to others.
You must think about other people and how what you do and say can have an effect on them. Finally, the last letter S stands for stick to it, you must resolve in advance that you will never give up and that they will persist in the face of all adversity and difficulties. Using this word, and elaborating on each letter, Brian is able to speak without notes for 60 or 90 minutes and never lose his place. The audience loves it, and looks forward eagerly to the meaning of each letter as he explains it. As I said earlier, you can use this method with almost any word, whether it's a three letter word, or a 10 letter word. This method is an effective way to organize your thoughts and impress your audience by speaking fluidly without notes.
Think of this simple method as your pocket memory technique that you keep at hand do make it easier to organize your ideas when you plan and design your speech.