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A Life Is A Speech field tool

The Room-Ready Checklist

Before you step into the room, make sure your message, your delivery and your next move are ready.

Twelve checks, about three to five minutes. Your answers stay in this page. Nothing is saved or sent.

Prefer paper? Download a blank printable version (PDF).

Step 1

Set the scene

What are you getting ready for?

Step 2

The checklist

Tick what is genuinely done. Open the prompt on any check if you want to think it through, and jot a note if it helps.

Craft it: Make the message clear

What you're saying

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  • Prompt and note

    If they remember only one thing, what should it be?

  • Prompt and note

    Why should they care, especially now?

  • Prompt and note

    What will help them believe you?

  • Prompt and note

    What will earn their attention in the first 20 seconds?

Deliver it: Make it feel real

How you're saying it

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  • Prompt and note

    Your first rehearsal shouldn't happen in front of the audience.

  • Prompt and note

    Which sentence deserves room to land?

  • Prompt and note

    Can you find your way back to the point if you lose your place?

  • Prompt and note

    What's the question you'd least like to be asked?

Land it: Make something happen

What happens because you said it

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  • Prompt and note

    What's different after you've spoken?

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    What exactly are you asking for?

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    What is the final thought you want to leave in the room?

  • Prompt and note

    Time, technology, materials, location: what could distract you from the message?

Step 3

Your room-ready plan

A Life Is A Speech field tool

The Room-Ready Checklist

Your room-ready plan

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All twelve checks

    This is a free preparation tool that uses the Stage Intelligence framework. It is not a formal assessment and it does not score you. lifeisaspeech.com

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