Friday, August 04, 2006
Preparation Checklist
• Anticipate the worst situations and decide what you will do when they happen.
• Anticipate questions and practice aloud the answers you may give.
• Anticipate difficult people, even asking friends to pretend to be them, and try various ways of dealing with them during rehearsal.
• Rehearse. The biggest mistake people make is to say the speech aloud the first time to the important people. Make your first, rough rehearsal, by yourself!
• Use your final set of brief notes to rehearse.
• Write down every bad thing that could happen. You will probably get good ideas when you wake in the middle of the night worrying. Put them in a list. Next to each one, say what you will do if that happens. You will be much less fearful
• Plan for the worst, hope for the best
• Anticipate the worst situations and decide what you will do when they happen.
• Anticipate questions and practice aloud the answers you may give.
• Anticipate difficult people, even asking friends to pretend to be them, and try various ways of dealing with them during rehearsal.
• Rehearse. The biggest mistake people make is to say the speech aloud the first time to the important people. Make your first, rough rehearsal, by yourself!
• Use your final set of brief notes to rehearse.
• Write down every bad thing that could happen. You will probably get good ideas when you wake in the middle of the night worrying. Put them in a list. Next to each one, say what you will do if that happens. You will be much less fearful
• Plan for the worst, hope for the best
