Analyzing and Adapting

Analyzing an audience is an important aspect of giving a speech. Knowing the needs and interests of one's attended audience can help to attract an active listening audience that will engage in thoughtful questions and interest in one's speech. It is important to know how an audience may feel about certain topics so that no one listening is offended by what is said in the speech. Once a person is offended it can cause confrontation which will only make giving a speech that much more nerve racking. When giving a speech it can be incredibly helpful to find out what the audience has in common with the topic of the speech and relate the topic more specifically to the audience which in turn will grasp their attention making the speech giving process a little easier. Adapting to an audience goes hand in hand with analyzing an audience. After one has analyzed the audience it is then up to the speech giver to adapt their speech to fit their audience and tailor their delivery in a way that will relate to the people listening without offending anyone. I hope to use this information in my next speech in the hopes that it will make me a little more comfortable. By knowing how my audience feels about a topic or knowing that we all have a commonality then maybe I can be less nervous about what everyone is thinking and just worry about my delivery and make sure I am making all the points that I had planned on making.