You should if you want excellence. But an article by Jennifer Witter at elevate network on December 10, 2025 titled A CEO’s Advice on Overcoming Your Fear of Public Speaking had five points:
1] Start Small
2] Rehearse
3] Stand Up
4] Forget Perfection
5] Learn to Pivot
And under Rehearse she said that:
“The CEO of Ketchum, a global public relations firm where I worked as a vice president before launching my own PR agency, suggested that one rehearse no more than three times. Anymore, you may sound stilted, too rehearsed. Any less, and you may overlook potential kinks in your address.
When you rehearse, concentrate on the process. Don’t take calls, don’t look at your email, and don’t shoehorn it in between meetings. Set aside time in your calendar to solely focus on your presentation. Get comfortable with what you’re going to say. Depending on the length of the speech, I usually hold an hour in my schedule for each rehearsal.”
On November 23, 2021 I blogged about How many times (or for how long) should you rehearse your speech? and noted Carmine Gallo instead had said ten times. Earlier, on August 27, 2018 in a post titled Chasing the perfect presentation I displayed the hyperbola shown above, where you need five rehearsals for 80% perfect and ten for 90% perfect.
Back on July 26, 2012 I blogged about how Nick Morgan discussed Seven ways to rehearse a speech, which are:
Rehearse the Content
The Logical Structure Rehearsal
Rehearse the Non-verbal Conversation
Rehearse the Emotions
The Walk-Through Rehearsal
The Opening Rehearsal
The Dress Rehearsal
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