How to sound polished when speaking

- [Narrator] So that's kind of of how to think about things at the beginning of putting together a speech or presentation. Well, how about when you're getting towards the end? When you're doing some of the polishing and perfecting? You've identified there's a few steps that many people overlook. They just neglect, but they shouldn't. What are those things? - [Instructor] The biggest step that most people overlook and shouldn't is reading your speech or presentation out loud. A lot of people will jot it down, they'll look at it on the paper, they'll read it in their head, especially if they're using slides. They simply look through the slides and think, okay, I'm ready. But writing for the ear and writing for the eye are two different things. And it's only when you read something out loud that you can listen to it critically and think, does this sound good? Does this sound like how I normally speak? Is it easy to…