Self-Evaluating Your Speech (1st Time)
You are going to watch/listen to your speech 4 times.
1st viewing/listening: The first time is partly to recover from the shock of hearing or seeing yourself!
1. What was the overall effect of your speech?
2. How did the audience respond to your speech?
3. What stands out to you, positive or negative?
2nd listening: The second time just listen (turn off the visual), focusing on content, making an outline as you listen:
Outline your speech here:
Check the box if you feel you did the following things in your speech:
Did you get the audience’s attention at the start? And, was your “attention-getter” relevant to the topic?
Did your introduction clearly give your audience both a reason to listen, and a clear direction (a clear thesis)?
Could you outline your own speech (was the organization easy to follow)?
Did you support your points with examples, stories, statistics, metaphors, analogies?
Did the transitions maintain flow?
Did you ramble?
3rd listening: The third time, again just listen, focusing on voice (turn off the visual):
Check the box if you feel you did the following things in your speech:
Did you vary your vocal pace, pitch and volume in a way that enforced your message and kept it engaging?
Do you need to project your voice more?
Did you pause long enough after important points or rhetorical questions or after you said something funny (did
you let people have the time to laugh or did you “step-on” the laughs)?
How well did you speak:
Appropriate formal tone
No jargon or slang that the audience wouldn’t relate to
Good enunciation and correct pronunciation and grammar
Little to no filler words (use of Ahs, Ums)
Adapted from http://www.virtualspeechcoach.com/2012/04/18/how-to-self-evaluate-yourspeech/#sthash.P8W6TmGn.dpuf
4th viewing: The fourth time, watch the video again, leaving on the audio, but focusing on the visual:
4. How was your eye contact? Did you look up? If so, did you look only in one direction the whole time (at one
person)? Did you look around the room? How often? How long were you able to not look at your speech?
Check the box if you feel you did the following things in your speech:
Did you speak from memorable key words or did you look down at wordy notes too much?
Did you use sustained eye contact for entire thoughts? Or, did you flit or scan?
Did your facial expressions, body language (stance, movement) and gestures distract from the message?
Did your gestures look natural?
Did you move on purpose mostly (or was there noticeable pacing, rocking, hand-wringing, etc.)?
A wrap up question:
If you had the opportunity to deliver this speech again next week, what are the top 3 changes that you would make?
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Looking at your peer evaluation:
What did your peer suggest?
When finished, attach your peer evaluation to this sheet, and turn in to the basket.
Adapted from http://www.virtualspeechcoach.com/2012/04/18/how-to-self-evaluate-yourspeech/#sthash.P8W6TmGn.dpuf