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Inspiring Leadership in Immigrant CommunitiesJanuary 2003heard all the myths about what immigrants are doing to the economy inCalifornia? or What do you think about these ideas? Other ways to include theaudience is by asking people talk about their personal experiences with the topicand encouraging them to give their comments and input about the issues.3. Conclusion• Summarize the major points you made during the speech and review them onbutcher paper if you have written them down for the audience to see.• Talk about any next steps—what you want your audience to do after your speech,such as sign a petition, join an organization, apply for something or make sometype of presentation to the school board.• Let audience members ask questions if you have enough time to and you feelcomfortable answering them. Otherwise you can give them a phone number tocall for further information.• Thank the people in the audience for their patience and their comments andquestions.F. Rehearsing the speechPractice the speech until you feel comfortable giving it. Although your family might thinkyou are crazy, practice giving the speech out loud. It usually helps to practice in front of amirror or with friends and family. Practicing will not only help you deliver the speech morefluidly, it should also ease your nerves.Giving the SpeechA. The first thing to do during a speech is to walk up to the front, pause for a couple seconds,smile and then start.B. While giving the speech, try not to read it unless you really have to. You don't have tomemorize it either, but if you are really familiar with the speech and have practiced it asufficiently, you should be able look at the audience for a considerable part of the speech. Eyecontact with members of the audience helps to keep them interested.C. Try to have the most important points spelled out on butcher paper or handouts for theaudience to look at and follow.D. Use personal experiences in the speech. Talk about why this topic is important to you and tothe audience. Use examples such as Naturalization is important because it helped my neighborimmigrate her ill father to the United Statesquicker and now she can take care of him.E. Speak loudly and clearly! Pretend you are trying to talk to the wall that is the farthest away,on the other side of the room. Use a microphone if you think it's necessary.F. Make the speech as simple and short as possible. Always work on cutting the length down. Ashort speech will keep the audience interested. You can always save time at the end for questionsif you want.4-5
Inspiring Leadership in Immigrant CommunitiesJanuary 2003G. Always be on time. Do not speak over your allotted time. Be prepared to start on time and beprepared to decide how long you will be willing to wait to start if the audience is late.H. Involve the audience as much as you can. Ask the audience questions such as these:• Can you hear me alright in the back?• How many of you have heard the immigrant bashing which politicians and someothers have been promoting? What do you think about it? What do you think we cando about it?"• How many of you have ever helped anyone apply for naturalization?• Who has ever been interviewed by a newspaper, TV or radio? What was the interviewabout? How did it go?I. Be funny and interesting if you can. Sometimes it is hard to be funny, but it isn’t hard to beinteresting. Think of things that would have a special interest to the audience. If your audience isa group of parents of school children, talk about things relating to the schools.J. Try to motivate audience members to do something. If you are talking about the wave ofanti-immigrant hysteria, be emotional in explaining why the hysteria is wrong and your audiencecan do about it. Encourage them to take action on the issue you are discussing, whether it besigning a petition, joining an organization or whatever else might be useful.§ 4.6 The Trainer’s Model SpeechGive a model speech of approximately 10 minutes. Make sure to make it a decent example. Ifyou want to, give an example of a bad speech, too, that is, a poorly prepared or organized orboring speech so the leaders can compare the two. The speech should cover one of the topicsalready discussed during the training. (20 minutes)A. Lead a group discussion critiquing your speech or speeches. What did you do well? Whatcould be improved? Try to lead the discussion toward some of the important aspects of a goodspeech, which they will already have learned during this training session. Also welcome newinput. Emphasize what you did during your introduction, because the advocates will dospeech introductions during this training unit.B. Explain how the speech was organized and how you prepared it, if these points were notalready addressed during the group discussion.§ 4.7 Practice Exercises on Speech IntroductionsDuring this section of the training the leaders will practice giving an introduction to a speech andthen the group will critique the introduction. This should be done in small groups of no morethan four leaders and one trainer per group. (45 minutes—If there are more than four leaders to agroup, the exercise will take considerably longer.)4-6
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