Speechwriting Tips
Here are some practical tips you can use for all your presentations. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced speaker, Rose's guidance won’t just elevate your presentations. It’ll help you captivate your audience.
Speechwriting Tips Blog
How To Work With An Executive Speechwriter
Early in their careers, many managers and junior executives write their own remarks for a town hall or conference presentation. As they climb the corporate ladder, though, the less time they have for writing. And yet this is when the stakes are far greater. A poorly told joke or a snore of a speech could derail their career.
General Morrison’s Case Against Sexism
Each time I re-watch General Morrison’s remarks, I’m reminded -- and impressed -- by his candor in setting clear expectations. His message? The Australian Army won’t tolerate sexism. If you think it’s acceptable to degrade, exploit, or harass women in uniform, then, he says, “get out.” (Then he adds, best of luck finding an employer who’ll allow that kind of behavior!)
Online Presentations: Place Camera at Eye Level
When your body language and words don’t match, what happens? People believe your body language. A CEO can talk endlessly about encouraging workers to speak up but, if he talks down to people, he likely won’t elicit much by way of grassroots innovation.
To Memorize or Not to Memorize? That is the Question.
By far the ones who put in all the hard work ahead of time to internalize their speeches – and did not worry one minute about the need to memorize their speeches – came across much more engaging, authentic and real.
Rhetoric in Action: What Senator Klobuchar Got Right
It was about 8am, the start of morning rush hour on I-5 South. I was driving. Traffic was heavy. I kept my eyes on the road, while tinkering with the volume button on the radio.
There was something in her speech – honestly, I wasn’t sure what – but she had captured my attention. I wanted to catch every single word and, as a professional speechwriter, I wanted to figure out why.
What the Governors Get Right
As we hunker down during the pandemic, Governors across the country have taken to the airwaves. Much has been written about who has – and who hasn’t – delivered in the battle against covid-19. As a speechwriter, I began to track the appearances of our more effective Governors: Andrew Cuomo, Jay Inslee, Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Mike DeWine and the like. I was intrigued.