Growth

Practise recovering your place while speaking

Whenyou rehearse from brief notes

During rehearsal, stop at an unexpected point. Pause, check your brief notes, summarize the last idea and continue with the next point. Retry once so recovery becomes part of the practice.

Start tiny

Stop once, find the next point and continue.

Evidence grade CPractitioner method or editorial idea

Matt Abrahams, “Consider Questions a Speaker’s Best Tool,” Toastmaster, January 2019. Read the source ↗

Growth: Practices that need preparation, a recurring slot or a useful tool.

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