📅 5-Week Plan With Heavy Practice
✅ Week 1: 💡 Finding & Distilling Your Core Hook
- 🔍 What’s the “biggest thing you offer” — distilled in one sentence?
- 🎯 Filtering down features & stories to your single sharp promise.
- ✍ Writing your first draft pitch intro: name, hook, result.
- Practice: 30-second intro to different buddy partners.
✅ Week 2: ✍ Structuring Powerful Short Speeches
- 📝 The “problem → promise → proof → pathway” model for quick pitches.
- 💡 How to start with a question, shock stat, or micro-story to grab attention.
- 🚀 Ending with a clear ask or next step (card, meet, demo, link).
- Practice: Deliver 60-90 sec short speech on your business or goal.
✅ Week 3: 🎤 Voice, Pauses & Confident Delivery
- 🗣 Using micro-pauses, vocal shifts, & facial expressiveness.
- 🚶 Gestures & posture in close-quarter speaking (network tables, huddles).
- 💬 Rehearsing short “wins stories” that slot into different networking situations.
- Practice: 2-minute personal story with a business or brand takeaway.
✅ Week 4: 🚀 Handling On-the-Spot & Panel Introductions
- 📝 Handling “tell us a bit about you?” in panels or sudden mic passes.
- 💥 Reframing: if your mind blanks, how to pivot to your ready short speech.
- 💼 Adapting same pitch for clients vs investors vs casual meets.
- Practice: Panel simulation — random prompts to pitch.
✅ Week 5: 🏆 Capstone Short Speech Showcase
- 🎤 Deliver your signature elevator pitch in 30 sec, 60 sec, and 2-min formats.
- 📹 Video analysis vs top Shark Tank / Demo Day intros.
- 📝 Get detailed rubrics on hook, brevity, clarity, enthusiasm, & close.
✅ EXAMPLES, TRAINING VIDEOS & CASE STUDIES
🎬 Includes:
- 📺 Short speech breakdowns: top TED intros, Shark Tank 1-liners, award stage “thank you”s.
- 📝 Before/after transformation of elevator pitches from past students.
- 🎥 Clip library on “power close” taglines.
✅ ROLE PLAY, MOCK SESSIONS & BUDDYING
- 🎭 Each week has paired pitch practice — get live reactions, tweak, retry.
- 📝 Build your personal Pitch Portfolio: variations for work, products, personal brand.
✅ BENCHMARKING EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT
🏆 In the final showcase:
- 📊 Graded across 5 markers: hook power, clarity, natural tone, confidence, close.
- 📜 Receive a Personal Pitch Impact Report with top areas to highlight.
- 🎖 Earn your Short Speech & Elevator Pitch Mastery Certificate