The last and final step for learning and making an effective speech; is practice, evaluation and its feedback.
Practice: Practicing your speech will help you to become more familiar with the material and to deliver it more confidently. It will also help you to identify any areas that need improvement.
Evaluation: Evaluating your speech after you have given it can help you to identify areas where you can improve. This could involve getting feedback from friends, family, or colleagues, or by watching a video of your speech. Simplest form of self evaluation is making a speech to the mirror; this is also one of the most powerful tool to evaluate and improve upon one’s speech.
Feedback: Feedback from others can be very helpful in improving your speech making skills. This feedback can help you to identify areas where you can improve, such as your delivery, content, or organization.
Here are some practical tips on how to build and use these factors in speech delivery:
Practice your speech multiple times: The more you practice, the more confident you will feel when you deliver your speech.
Get feedback from others: Ask friends, family, or colleagues to listen to your speech and give you feedback.
Watch a video of your speech: This can be a helpful way to see how you come across to others and to identify areas where you can improve.
Make speech to Mirror. This is simplest still most powerful tool to improve one’s speech making skills.
Be open to feedback: Don’t be defensive if someone gives you negative feedback. Instead, use the feedback to improve your speech making skills.
Be willing to make changes: If you receive feedback that suggests that you need to make changes to your speech, be willing to make those changes.