Hello Pharmacists of the Future World,
Below are my "Extemporaneous" notes I referred to when preparing this 18 minute spoken podcast. Notice it's just "KWBPSO", key words bullet points symbols only. Why not manuscript/memorized manuscript? Well...you decide.
An average speaking pace is 150 words per minute, multiplied by 18, I may have spoken (using calculator), 2,700 words! Can you imagine I typed that (Manuscript)!
The average person can type 40 words per minute, that would take me (calculator app again :)) 2,700/40, 67.5 minutes to type! This does not include the time I have to think about what to write by the way, let's say it took me 30 minutes to brain storm that up.
Then time to learn every word in order, who knows how long, let's be kind, super duper kind, and say 2 hours, that's 120 minutes? (Memorized Manuscript) The average non-double spaced novel contains 500 words...that is over 5 pages I need to memorize!
Total time invested for your 18 minute talk - 30 brainstorm + 67.5 type + 120 memorize = 210.5 minutes (3 hours, 30 minutes, 30 seconds)
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*It's not at all inconceivable that as a pharmacy manager you will need to brief your staff for 18 minutes straight. You may need to do this every day, do you have 3:30:30 to spare? Some may say, I can skip the memorizing part, but if you read word for word from a paper, will people sit there and listen attentively until you finish -why not just hand it out to them? What happens if you lose the paper, or forgot your glasses (contact lens dried up, the worse! or even worse in a hurry you put it on backwards!) Or worse, what if what you wrote and memorized changed? There are new protocols during CoVid-19 that can come in every morning. What you wrote and want to read from yesterday is no longer applicable, you need to adjust to the moment.
*Most importantly, even if you spent these 3:30:30 hours, all you did was prepare what you are going to say/planning to say.
How much time was devoted to actually practicing speaking? That's correct, 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds! Add in that time, and an 18 minute daily briefing becomes your unpaid fulltime job. Yay! :)
*Likewise, try and avoid the impromptu speech for this too -what you have to say is probably important, otherwise why have a meeting or debriefing when people are working.
Without further ado, my extemporaneous notes.
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A. Welcome > Asynchronous? Never! > UN: adultered, filtered, rehearsed
B. Me/Course (interpersonal)
C. 1st Assignment - Music > Future assignments (DONE at 18)