We're thinking about penetrating the market in Latvia. Tell us about the country. Speaking off the cuff, impromptu speaking is a vital and effective skill. So how do you cope Are you put on the spot and someone asked you to tell us about something? Here I'm not talking about answering questions or replying to someone. I'm talking about being asked to speak two to three, four, or maybe more minutes without preparation.

You might think it just happens and some people can do it and others can't. But actually, there are some techniques you can use to develop this skill. impromptu speaking requires quick thinking, the ability to be articulate, and to be able to stay on topic. Rest assured that practice makes you improve enormously. Now, the first thing is, don't panic when you're up to speed off the cuff. Please realize it's still a speech or many speech, perhaps, but still a speech.

So everything we've learned still applies. Even if you can't do a lot of preparation. At the very least, you can still have your structure your scaffolding to hide your speech on beginning, middle, and end. And now you know how to make a speech flow. So, when you get your feet to speak, try to get the subject matter, or at least the main points in your head before you start and decide how you're going to begin. Try to begin and end on a memorable but relevant statement.

Expand on your topic in the middle part, using the rule of threes. If you can, sometimes you only have time for one or maybe two. Finally, refer back and summarize, perhaps reflect on the objective or make an emphatic statement. Whatever you do, don't waffle. This might seem like a tall order, but as they say, practice makes perfect So even this is something you can practice. In spam, you can ask a friend or a colleague to suggest a subject.

And then you try and speak for two minutes, and then three minutes, and so on. Don't worry about stumbling To start with, you will get better. If you'd rather do it in private, as someone to write down some topics on a slip of paper, and hand them to you unseen, then practice them while you're on your own. You'll find out the practice improved enormously. When I was first asked to speak impromptu, I dried up after the first sentence. Now how to some experience?

I don't find it too hard to do at all. I talked about the middle section of your impromptu speech, but how can you develop your argument in such a short time? Here are some possibilities. First of all, your subject matter might have a logical progression that you can use to develop your argument. Or you could talk about a problem and it's solution. Simply you could examine Cause and Effect, you could review the alternative courses of action that are available.

You might present the arguments for and against a particular course of action. Or your subject might lend itself to past, present, future timelines. Evaluate, be lucky to have a little time to plan what you're going to say. The back of an envelope speech, if you do have a little time to prepare, say 510 minutes, you should be able to produce a structure and two or three points, develop them, right the beginning and ending sentences. You might even carry some of our writing frames with you. So let me reassure you remember that impromptu speaking is still a speech.

I remember what you already know. And do get some practice in. Thank you. That was well done.