ELEVATOR SPEECH WORKSHEET
Name:
1. Who is the audience for your elevator speech? Identify a prospective employer and/or career field in
which you hope to work.
2. State the general and specific purposes of your elevator speech.
3. State the central idea that summarizes your elevator speech in a single sentence.
4. List and support (through facts, examples, definitions, quotations) your main ideas. Remember that
you must have two main ideas in your elevator speech; one main idea describes your potential
contributions as an employee while the other main idea describes why you are interested in the
prospective employer’s company.
Main idea 1:
Support for main idea 1:
Support for main idea 1:
Main idea 2:
Support for main idea 2:
Support for main idea 2: 8. Organize your speech by completing the outline below.
Introduction
Attention-getter:
Preview of main ideas:
Reason for audience to listen:
Body
Main idea 1:
Support for main idea 1:
Support for main idea 1:
Main idea 2: Support for main idea 2:
Support for main idea 2:
Conclusion
Summarize main ideas:
Restate central idea:
