How to prepare a speech in a nutshell, do the following brainstorm on every message you could say to this audience on the topic at hand, narrow it down to the top five, brainstorm on a story or two and an example. For each message point, come up with a factor number for each message point. Then have a simple one page outline that has no more than three or four words per line. Then practice the speech on video. It can be your own cell phone, keep practicing until you like it. If you do that, you will be ahead of 95% of the public speakers in the world.