THE SIXTH RULE:

Write Out theSpeech Draft

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With the feedback on your outline from your speech response group, you are ready to write the draft. Whether you decide ultimately to use a speaking outline or a full-text speech draft, you should write and polish your draft as if it were going into the history books. Why? Because it just might, and it also forces you to thoroughly formulate your ideas by making you write them down for you and others to edit.

Further, when very important speeches, such as policy speeches or high-impact speeches are given, you will want the record to be absolutely correct. Indeed, the further up the corporate ladder you ...

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