Good Morning: After writing yesterdays blog, I felt I needed to add this information along with it. After you learn how to write and give a good speech the next thing to learn is how to evaluate a speech. I remember this lesson well.
There are three very important things to remember in giving an evaluation of a speech. Remember that you are evaluating the speaker along with the speech evaluation. The speaker is a person and if they spoke at all, they deserve proper recognition and credit no matter how bad the speech may have been.
When starting the evaluation, always start with a positive favorable remark to the speaker. There are lots of things that you could comment on. Their overall appearance, their voice, reaction of the audience and so on as long as it is favorable.
Then select one and only one area of correction, and be kind. After all they did speak. If their speech construction was not well put together, point it out and tell them how they can correct it. If you can’t tell them how to correct a problem that you spotted, don’t say anything, remember an evaluation is a correction process. Do not dwell on it, just point out the correction and that’s it. It would be helpful if you can even inject some humor into it. If it is a similar problem that you have had, tell them how you overcame the problem.
Then end your evaluation with a very positive statement and compliment. Do not tear the person down, you might want them back to speak again. I can remember the first speech evaluation that I gave; it was totally negative. Did I ever get a lesson from the instructor.
There are three very important things to remember in giving an evaluation of a speech. Remember that you are evaluating the speaker along with the speech evaluation. The speaker is a person and if they spoke at all, they deserve proper recognition and credit no matter how bad the speech may have been.
When starting the evaluation, always start with a positive favorable remark to the speaker. There are lots of things that you could comment on. Their overall appearance, their voice, reaction of the audience and so on as long as it is favorable.
Then select one and only one area of correction, and be kind. After all they did speak. If their speech construction was not well put together, point it out and tell them how they can correct it. If you can’t tell them how to correct a problem that you spotted, don’t say anything, remember an evaluation is a correction process. Do not dwell on it, just point out the correction and that’s it. It would be helpful if you can even inject some humor into it. If it is a similar problem that you have had, tell them how you overcame the problem.
Then end your evaluation with a very positive statement and compliment. Do not tear the person down, you might want them back to speak again. I can remember the first speech evaluation that I gave; it was totally negative. Did I ever get a lesson from the instructor.
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Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky
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