We all want to give speeches which have an impact and are memorable. Here is a master in both writing and delivering a speech.
“Of course, whatever happens at Dunkirk, we shall never surrender. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Now there’s a lot that we can learn from looking at a Winston Churchill speech. Things were slightly different then. The length of his speech was extraordinarily long and far too long for a current-day speech, but he did have the secret of the soundbite, didn’t he? There were some other things that are invisible in his speech writing and his speech delivery. One is the fact that he had the speech written in double spaced text and then he made his own notes. He understood that he had to own the speech. The other point is, is that he was speaking from the heart. He was delivering what he believed. He didn’t say, I’m passionate about this. He was delivering real words based on real emotion. It’s also clear that he, he understands valleys and mountains that he understands slow pace, pauses, the power of the pause, and then some words go really fast. There’s so much to learn from this type of speech. This is a, a famous paragraph in a massive speech, but it’s a speech that the changed history, a speech that we can also learn so much from. If you want your speeches to have the same sort of impact that Winston Churchill speeches had – get in touch.