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Rest assured - it occurs only very rarely that you really need to give an unprepared, impromptu speech. A speech in which you have to come up with something just like that or to make something up out of thin air. This is because the person who asks you to say something thinks you know something about the topic. For example, your colleague asks you how you felt about this year's congress. Or your boss asks what you expect from your current project. These are all topics about which you can say something.

In addition many can follow their gut feeling. It warns you days in advance. The warning? “You might have to say something.” Now, if your gut feeling is nice enough to warn you, then why not just listen to it? Take five minutes of your time to think about what you would say if you were asked to say something. With that it is no longer an unprepared speech – to your advantage. You don’t need to rub it into your audience’s face that you were prepared. Eloquent politicians do the exact same thing. What looks like an impromptu speech was prepared in advance. Given many times before. Mark Twain put it into the following words: “It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” In other words the experienced politician thinks about what he is going to say, then rehearses it and then says it.

Regardless of the above: This little book reveals in particular one technique, with which you can say something in (almost) every situation to (almost) any topic. Even if unprepared.