It is important to design your speech for the audience, because you need to identify the different personality types you will present yourself to in order to create a great speech. By designing your speech for the audience and identifying personality types you are not just catering to yourself and your needs. Since each personality type will receive the information you provide differently, it's important to design your speech based on your audience. Knowing who is in your audience by designing a note worksheet with your audience's personality types is your first step in ensuring you give an informative speech, one that people will listen to. When you have to give a presentation to personality types you don't know, you need to design your presentation for all personality types. If you were to give a speech to a room full of athletes, you would design your speech to relate to their sport, giving examples of how to connect what they're talking about to something the audience is passionate about. You often see math teachers designing their lessons around objects, instead of using numbers they use objects like apples or crayons to engage the class. By knowing your audience, you can design your speech to fit their interest or, if you're giving a speech in a room full of personalities, you can give a speech that will interest everyone in a group that will get the most attention. If you give a presentation without developing a clear goal of what you want from your audience, you will leave out important details. When you are passionate about a topic, do quality research, and want to convey a message to your audience, you will do well. The reason for the most commonly used personifications in lectures,...... middle of the paper...... your presentation writing then the fact that your audience questions you and others follow their theory. Presentations are important because when writing, people will perceive things differently, but if put in writing no one can change the words you are trying to convey. What it means to you to not let words get in the way of your message Not letting words get in the way of your message means to me that it's not just what you say, but how you say it and how your actions convey your message. Also, known as expression, actions speak louder than words. It's important to know the words to say, but don't focus on the words you say because people will interpret the information you give them based on their personality type, and by looking good while saying your words, you are more focused on others rather than about yourself.