Deliberate Speech Delivery

Deliberate speech delivery is the crafting of speeches in a deliberate manner. And crafting a structured hierarchical outline or structure built specifically for the purposes of speaking. Then being cognizant of that structure while delivery is taking place and during the execution process. These three steps are extremely significant and are the basis for all types of speech delivery including its deliberate form, which is itself the basis of the other form. Construction. Cognition. And execution. We will first go over construction.

Construction

First, the speech has to be created. The content of a speech must be organized into a hierarchical order and done so in a manner that fosters ease of use and manipulation later. And in a way specifically designed for the dynamic nature of speech. Hierarchical sections should be broken up into their smallest intelligent thought and sorted that way in accordance with the dynamic nature. Break the speech up into their smallest units of intelligible thought and organize them hierarchically that way. A speech has to be organized like this. It fosters quick use and clever manipulation. This paragraph thus far could be hierarchically and dynamically organized like so:

• First, the speech must be created.

- Its content must be organized hierarchically.

- And in a manner that fosters ease of use.

- And manipulation.

- In a way specifically designed for the dynamic nature of speech.

- Hierarchical sections should be broken up.

- Into their smallest intelligible thought.

- And sorted that way.

- Break it up and sort it into their smallest units.

- It has to be done like this.

- It fosters quick use and clever manipulation.

Notice how sentences are broken up into very small units. Sentences are even separated and broken up into smaller units to accomplish this. A speech must be constructed like this.

Cognition

Then the speech has to be in place in the mind of the speaker when it is going to be executed. The speaker has to be cognizant of it. While speaking. The way this is done is by being aware of the hierarchical nature of the speech using the constructed hierarchical outline and the point and place of each part of the speech one is at at every point they are executing it. The fact that the speech is broken up into various very small parts, smaller than you might think, makes this very easy to do since the rapidity of speech will not detract from the quality of understanding the content since it is all very small and easy to handle and move forward through.

The speech content, its hierarchical outline, must be committed to memory. This is a process that must be concentrated on separately. The structure must be intentionally committed to memory.

But when going through and delivering the speech the speaker has to be aware of the entire outline of what they’re saying hierarchically and content-wise, the meaning of it, from the overarching point of the speech down to the section or sections they are on down to smaller sections and down to they very small detail and individual words they are saying at that moment, and of course how it all relates to each other and what they will say next. All of this has to be done. Every part. And it has to be done live, in real time, while speaking.

It is why when constructing speeches, so different from constructing writing, the chunks of the hierarchical construction must be broken up into their smallest intelligible units in such a way that they may seem far smaller than is necessary or overly simplistic. You have to understand that what seems overly simplistic when writing or even mentally constructing an outline with time to consider each item is fundamentally antithetical to how it appears during the live and dynamic nature of speech, and in a way that is irreconcilable for every speaker, from JFK to MLK to Gandhi to the Greek Plato.

The content of a speech during the construction process must be deliberately oversimplified in relation to how it appears during the construction process. Not a single time when speaking will you have this much time to peruse or manipulate the outline. Not when writing one. Nor when mentally putting one together beforehand, when you will have time to pause and consider. No such time is granted when speaking, and this must be taking into consideration. So the content of a speech must be deliberately “over”-simplified to compensate for this effect. Must be deliberately simplified. The difference between the reflective process of construction and the rapidity of speech. It must be deliberately compensated for. In a way that may seem overly so, drastic at the time, but it is not because of the differences. It must be “overly” simplified.

This makes cognition much easier. And not only easier, but possible. Realistically or actually being cognizant of speeches in real time, which is when speech takes place, means being actually fully aware of what is going on. And this can only be done when the content is broken up like this. Then being cognizant of it just means being aware of each of those broken up parts and their meaning and how they all fit together. Being aware of where you’re going next and its meaning. The meaning of the section. And their hierarchical relation.

Execution

Executing the speech just means delivering the content of whatever part you’re on while being aware of its place in the structure and what comes next in the speech and its part in the structure. One just has to train themselves to be able to keep cognizant of its complex structure while delivering its parts. It’s essentially just multitasking.

But there is another large aspect to executing a speech. That is not found in construction or cognition. As we hinted at earlier, speech is an eternal two-way function. Whenever giving a speech there is always feedback from the audience that must be processed and accounted for. Speech should always be deliberately altered during execution depending on feedback from the audience.

There are two types of feedback. Live feedback and discourse-based feedback. Live feedback is that which occurs during monologues. Speakers will be speaking and the audience will sometimes look confused, or enthusiastic, and the speaker needs to perhaps expand upon a certain in more detail, provide an anecdote to make a point sail home, or get to the next one depending on the exact nature of it.

Discourse-based feedback is feedback that occurs in the midst of conversation. An audience asks questions. The speaker may need to reformat his existing hierarchical structure to account for the specific structure of that question. It’s the same essential points with the same structure, so to speak, but it is reformatted.

The alteration process of (of the execution stage of) delivering a speech follows the same process of construction, cognition, and execution. We must construct a new outline, often similar to the previous one, we must be cognizant of it, and then we must execute it with that cognizance we have constructed, while staying alert to the audience for any feedback prompting adjustment.

There is a more advanced version of alteration as well. It involves combining disparate outlines into a single one, parsing out the necessary information from them all to answer a specific question. It is called advanced execution alteration. A speaker may be asked a question whose answer essentially combines information from two (or more) different outlines, and he may combine information from those into a single structure, combining the various points and details into one. But it is not the generation of new ideas or creation of a new structure from scratch, only the reformatting of existing ones.

Pools of related structures can be classified as a single large structure which all answer one big question, and this is why it is possible to rearrange them easily and form them into different structures with their information intact. This is advanced execution alteration, but it is still a form of execution alteration and should be treated and dealt with as such. But its specific type is advanced execution alteration. As its core is very simple. Alter existing speech structures, content to match the question. It is just that the scale of it is slightly larger, in that the structures may be disparate, but they are inherently and necessarily related and form one at their base, so it is still execution alteration and simple in that regard.

And that is how it’s done. Reformatting information from various structures into a single structure to answer one question. Advanced execution alteration.

All of this necessitates a certain level of attention to be paid to the audience. One has to be aware of the audience and what they are doing when giving a speech. When executing it. When monologuing, one has to be aware of the audience’s non-verbal and other feedback, to adjust the speech as necessary, and to do so deliberately. All of this must be done deliberately. The live adjustments to speech content during live feedback must be done deliberately, and the speaker needs to constantly be on guard and paying attention to this and to adjust the speech content deliberately.

He needs to pay attention to the audience deliberately with this intention. And every time feedback is given that prompts adjustment, like confusion, eagerness, boredom, exasperation, willingness to engage further, desire to pause, the speaker needs to immediately and deliberately intentionally adjust the content of the speech, always and every time. And in accordance with the implication of the feedback. The adjustment that should be made. He needs to do so immediately and properly. We’ll say that again. The speaker must deliberately watch the audience while speaking; the deliberate intention of watching for live feedback, and upon noticing any feedback from the audience prompting change, they need to do so immediately, or as immediately as possible, altering the content of the speech immediately.

And when watching the audience, they need to do so with the deliberate intention in mind of watching for feedback. Any and all feedback. And parse it as to whether he needs to adjust his speech or not. The speaker must parse that feedback deliberately, and deliberately think over it as to what the audience could mean and what exactly they might like to have happen to the speech and how they might want to see it altered based on that feedback and deliberate, conscious parsing of it. They must not leave their investigation of the audience up to chance, or simply watch them, but specifically watch the audience for any potential feedback.

He should have the perception of feedback in mind when watching the audience, and specifically have the perception of feedback that indicates any potential alteration to his speech that needs to be made in mind. He needs to do this deliberately, and in a focused way. Again: he needs to do all of this deliberately, and in a focused way, with all of this in mind, watching the audience to do so. And intentionally thinking over it and what their feedback could mean. Watching them intentionally and solely to gain their feedback.

Discourse-based feedback must also be paid attention to. The audience needs to be watched when they are asking a question or making a verbal and auditory remark in the conversation themselves. The speaker must listen to them, watch them for non-verbal cues to better understand them as well, and other cues like tone of voice, and deliberately parse over this information as to what it could possibly mean. Consciously think about what exactly they are saying and how to best address the inquiry and therefore how to best alter existing speech content to do so if any feedback is prompted that indicates so.

That covers the alteration part of speech execution. It is a considerably intricate task, and requires care. And with that covered we’ve covered the entirety of the overview we’d like to give of speech execution. That should warrant applause.

Takeaway

Delivering a speech consists of construction, cognition, and execution. Create it for the purposes of giving a speech with its nuances. Have the structure in mind when delivering in its same inherent form, as constructed. And execute it by delivering it while altering it based off audience feedback, paying attention to them to do so. That is it. That is how to deliver a speech. It is that simple.