Here's a different take on demonstration speeches. As you know, they’re mostly about demonstrating a hard skill: a show and tell of some sort like how to bake a cake, groom a pet, tie a tie, read a road map and so on.
But what about demonstrating soft skills?
There are oodles of vital interpersonal skills that could be used to create valuable 'how-to' speeches.
For example:
How to say 'no' firmly and politely
How to accept criticism positively and work with it
How to respond to bullying toward yourself or others
You may not have objects for the audience to handle or photos for them to see but there is potential to fully involve them all the same.
A soft skills how-to speech begs for role plays. For example, you could demonstrate/model an effective way to say 'no' politely against an ineffective way.
You could then ask your audience for feedback, then split them into pairs, have them try both ways for themselves and report back.
Why toughen up soft skills?
Because it's these interpersonal attributes or qualities that shape our lives more than any other. We can be the most capable at a particular hard skill, (running, programming, cooking...), but unless we also know how to initiate and maintain good interpersonal relationships, we will find it extremely difficult living in the real world.
Go to 50 soft skills how-to speech ideas.
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Susan
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Yes, for sure! Soft skills are so important. Now needed in the world more-so, than it's ever been. At least in my experience.