Give a Better Speech By Throwing Out the Script Rather than resorting to rigorous memorization, save yourself time and stress by setting up “navigation points” to improve the flow of your ...

Speak from the heart (and not a script) in order to engage your audience. Otherwise you risk losing your credibility.

Reciting a speech from memory gives it a canned quality and distances a speaker from listeners. Also, a speaker who forgets one section might lose track of what follows, “and suddenly you’re ...