Consider your emotional and physical state and your level of nervousness before during and after your speech. What did you feel? What did you think? Identifying things that made you confident and things that made you lose confidence are a great way to prepare for and prevent obstacles as you grow in your public speaking skills. -What worked for you? What did you notice go well in your speech? What will you try again? What didn’t work? Any problems that you faced? What are you going to try and improve next time? -Recording a video of yourself and trying to make everything perfect before you post it can be sometimes stressful and time consuming. How did your chosen recording environment work for you or not work for you? How might you make some changes to improve your recording environment or process? -As far as the qualities of your speech delivery, you can consider reflecting on the attributes: -Speaking pace: too fast? too slow? Even if you are a naturally fast speaker (I know that I am), you may find yourself speaking even faster when you are even a little nervous. When a speaker talks too fast, the audience may miss the message or be distracted. When a speaker speaks too slowly, the audience may be annoyed or distracted. We don’t always speak at a “perfect” pace but we can be aware of our pace -Volume: too loud or too soft? Are we knocking our audiences out of their seats with a huge booming voice? Or are we struggling to hear a whispering speech in the video audio, even with headphones? -Variety: Use of higher, medium and lower pitches. Small, medium or large pitch range. There’s nothing wrong with a speaking voice that is monotone (or has a limited range of vocal pitch when speaking). However, this technique of naturally using a wider range of pitch (speaking in lower and higher tones than we do naturally), may increase audience “liking” of the speaker and their message -Tone: Conversational or stilted and awkward? A great speech presentation can feel like a conversation, even when it is one-sided (and the speaker doesn’t ask their audience any questions). It can also feel casual, relaxed, natural and authentic. However, some presentations can feel overly formal, stilted, awkward and/or unprepared. Is the tone serious, relaxed, funny, friendly, cold, formal?