A short process speech on health can focus on patient care and healthy living. Speakers can tell audiences about how to find a doctor, choose a health care provider, pick a nursing home for an aging parent or grandparent or select an insurance company. Topics about healthy living can include how to start an exercise program, choose a fitness center, eat healthy, cook healthy recipes and pick a diet plan that lowers cholesterol, diabetes risk and heart disease. Topics about health can often include "doctor speak," meaning complicated words and definitions; speakers should make their best efforts to make the speech clear and conversational.
Technology speeches can show how products work and how software can make life easier. Speakers can take any of the latest and most impressive technological gadgets on the market and demonstrate them to audiences showing how they work and their function. Speakers can show how software programs can make things easier in business, nonprofits and someone's personal life. Short process speeches on technology can also explain how the Internet connects people all over the world or how to repair a piece of equipment. Speakers who show how something works should make sure they understand the product well before demonstrating.
Topics about education can include speeches that help both students and teachers. Speeches can focus on how to study, write a resume, perform a science experiment, use computers for research, get the most out of a trip to the library, take a standardized test, write great essays and put together a research project. Topics can also include how to put together a virtual field trip, grade on a curve, deal with problem students, talk with parents about their child's education and prepare students for the "real world." Other speeches can cover the process of getting into college, writing test questions and writing a resume.
Short process speeches on the economy can include saving money and planning for the future. Topics about saving money can focus on how to buy in bulk, shop consignment, create a family budget, search the Internet for good deals and use coupons wisely. In planning for the future, speeches can focus on how to search for a banker, look for a retirement plan and pick the best stocks. Speakers can also explain the process of how the world oil market affects gas prices, the economy of a country other than the United States and the function of the Federal Reserve and secretary of the treasury.