From Articulate
The 30-Day Plan
Every session is the same 9 minutes: 1 minute of warm-up, 2 reading the move, 4 recording and 2 playing it back. Day A learns the move. Day B uses it when it's harder, and gets scored on the five measures in Appendix D. Day 29 is a Day A that gets scored too. If you miss a day, pick up where you stopped.
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| Day | Drill | Ch | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Record Your Baseline | 1 | Day 1 sheet |
| 2 | Catch It Live | 1 | All five |
| 3 | Say How You Feel | 2 | |
| 4 | Nerves on Camera | 2 | All five |
| 5 | Answer First | 3 | |
| 6 | Point First, No Notes | 3 | All five |
| 7 | Find Where They Bunch | 4 | |
| 8 | Silence at Speed | 4 | All five |
| 9 | Finish Every Sentence | 5 | |
| 10 | Land It Against the Clock | 5 | All five |
| 11 | Ten Words, Then Talk | 6 | |
| 12 | Ten Words, Cold | 6 | All five |
| 13 | Say It Back, Then Frame It | 7 | |
| 14 | And Then the Follow-Up | 7 | All five |
| 15 | One Point, One Moment, One Turn | 8 | |
| 16 | Story on Demand | 8 | All five |
| 17 | Get In | 9 | |
| 18 | First In | 9 | All five |
| 19 | Write the First Line | 10 | |
| 20 | First Line, Cold | 10 | All five |
| 21 | Hands Still, Hands Free | 11 | |
| 22 | Explain It Standing | 11 | All five |
| 23 | One Follow-Up Question | 12 | |
| 24 | Listen, Then Speak | 12 | All five |
| 25 | The Sentence You Keep Swallowing | 13 | |
| 26 | Say It, Then Hold It | 13 | All five |
| 27 | No, Cut In, Name It | 14 | |
| 28 | Cut In, Then Name It | 14 | All five |
| 29 | Build the Big One | 15 | All five |
| 30 | The Full Run | 15 | Day 30 sheet |
Keep your Day 1 recording. Day 30 asks for it.
After Day 30, do one session a week (Chapter 16), and run Day 30 again on Day 90, counting from Day 1. The Day 90 column is in Appendix D. Keep all three recordings: Day 1, Day 30 and Day 90.
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Hazel Crowe, The Hazel Crowe Toolkit: The 30-Day Plan. From Articulate. https://hazelcrowe.com/toolkit/30-day-plan
From Articulate by Hazel Crowe, Appendix A. Chapter numbers refer to Articulate. Free to print, copy and share with this line kept on. The Hazel Crowe Toolkit, version 2026-11-04.
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