Elevator Pitches

Elevator pitches are a short summary describing who, what, why and how a certain thing does what it does. In terms of the elevator pitches I've been practicing, they've been about me and my work. I attended an elevator pitch session in uni where we all sat face to face on another with a table separating us, we had goes and turns to say our pitch to each other whilst being timed 1 minute for the first time and 3 minutes for the second time. We swapped seats each time to give us chance to speak to a range of people as opposed to getting comfortable talking to the same person over and over.

I found that when I began talking I'd get straight to the point of what I wanted to say and miss out a lot of details, sometimes the details would have been useful to share but most of the time they could have been skipped. I spoke really quick and kind of messed up my words a little at first, this was due to the pressure of the timer going off, I felt like it was going to cut my speech short at any second. I did however feel a lot more comfortable doing my pitch the second time because we had more time so I could relax and not rush it however I did find myself finished the pitch extremely early and I'd ran out of stuff to say so I would say that my desired elevator pitch time would be 1 minute because after a quick practice I was able to deliver a clear, understandable, quick pitch to carry out the information about me and my work to the opposing peer.

I found this session extremely useful as I've now learn how to control what I'm saying at a speed in which the other person can follow and I've learnt to narrow down what I'm saying so I'm just revealing the most important factors which eliminates any boredom that might come from dragging my sentences on for ages and ages talking about irrelevant things.