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Saturday 4 February 2012

Speechcraft Workshop on Saturday 10 Dec 2011- “Speaking with Confidence”


An inspirational speech is a highly emotional speech that serves to urge and stimulate a group to pursue significant personal and corporate goals, choose right corporate strategy, correct mistakes, etc. Additionally, an inspirational speech arms the audience with tools and awareness they should possess to succeed in their personal lives and in the modern globally competitive marketplace.

As far as inspirational speeches serve to inspire different kinds of people including professionals, an inspirational speech can combine components as diverse as valid business principles, real life situations and memorable stories. An inspirational l speech is a variety of a persuasive speech and it is pragmatically oriented: a recipient of an inspirational speech should experience a certain impact, i.e. change his/her behavior, act in this or that way, agree with something. To this end, an imperative mood should be used in inspirational speeches. Energetic phrases starting with "do", "donate", "join", "create", "buy" are most likely to reinforce the effect of an inspirational speech.

An inspirational speaker should very well realize what are positions, or actions he/she is going to popularize. Besides, a thorough preparatory research is required to take into account numerous factors that can influence the process of listening and further decision-making. These are as follows:
1)   Social factors: status, education, values of the audience;
2)   Pragmatic factors: requirements, needs and interests of the audience.


Sanjeev also introduced contest for audience members.The theme was,”Talk about yourself. Furthermore, we received pointers on the areas of speech development and how to make a humorous speech.

Thomas Selveraj
Sergeant At Arms




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