Arouse suspense

Curiosity! Who is not susceptible to it? Are you interested? Are you eager to know more? Has the speaker captured the favorable attention of the listeners? Do you feel this opening has held your attention, heightened your interest as it progressed? Why? Because it aroused your curiosity and held you in suspense.

Creating suspense is a sure-fire method of getting listeners interested. I think show hosts use this technique and sometimes we have to wait until they come back from 30 second commercials. We also can see this technique when we watch YouTube and they separate one episode into several segments so that people wait until the creator releases the next episode. They often add cliff hangers at the end so that it gives more curiosity to watchers.  

In general, we use some sort of process or structure and no man would start to build a house without some sort of plan and it goes to deliver a talk without the vaguest notion of what we wish to accomplish. So, I think it is one method that we can use to make a plan for a speech.

It also reminds me of James.W who is the Director of Operations. When I visited the CM with him last year, he had to prepare a speech to talk in front of the CM. He did a pretty nice speech to celebrate the achievement of our product and he started his speech on how he came up with his speech. He shared his idea that he picked some words from the slogan that the CM posted on the factory wall. He checked several slogan posters and got some ideas for his speech.

I thought it was a pretty interesting speech and that is the reason that I remembered.  As I mentioned before, I usually have a pretty good memory to remember things like it was yesterday and it doesn’t matter how long ago that memory was.

I will continue to read the next chapter to see more techniques to help create a plan of speech.