Week 11 Post 3

I found this article really interesting. A lot of what she talked about offered justification for some of the suggestions coaches have given me over the years like making eye contact with just one individual for longer. Her suggestions also gave me ideas for new drills that I could run with my team mates such as profiling drills with fake audience members and then writing a speech based off of that audience. I think this will be really useful in building some of the skills younger members of our team are in need of. It can also help varsity members of the Roosevelt speech and debate team take their presentations from good to great. I hope to implement some of these new ideas with the team by half way through February so as to have our new and improved speeches ready for the first weekend of March which is our state tournament. Maybe having these new relatability drills will help our team appeal better to parent judges and interpretation judges.
My question this week is, "What should public speaking competitors do if they can't find out information about their judges before they start speaking?" I generally just assume that my judge will either be conservative or liberal based off of geography, region, and the size of a tournament. (bigger tournaments tend to have more liberal judges) That's clearly not a foolproof plan so I'd like to see what suggestions Marjorie North would have for me as a consultant who works for people that generally won't know their audiences until after their speeches have been written.

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