Cichazatoka

Adapting to Your Audience and Situation by determining your time of speech.The time of day, day of the week, time of the year, and amount of time allotted for speaking must be taken into account.53 If you are speaking early in the morning, you may need to be more forceful to awaken your listeners. The vigor of your voice must assert the importance of your message. Since we tend to grow drowsy after we eat, after-dinner speeches need lively examples and humor. Speeches given in the evening also present a problem. Most listeners will have completed a day’s work and will have left the comforts of home to hear you. You must justify their attendance with good ideas that are well presented.