Effective Motivational Speech Preparation
Monday, January 19th, 2009I had a very bright high school student call me recently. She kindly asked if she could interview me about my job as a motivational speaker for a paper she wrote. She was a great kid on the phone, and as you can see by her email (and paper) below you’ll see that her teacher agreed.
Emily: you’re a rock star! Keep it up girl and let me know if I may be of further service.
Here’s her email
Dear Brad,
I am writing to you both, as you requested, to let you know about the outcome of my senior project about motivational speaking. I wrote and presented a speech about technology to a retired men’s group, which went really well. I wrote a paper about my research, and I mentioned both of you. An attachment of the paper is included in this email.
The most nerve-wracking part of this entire experience was presenting my topic to my panel of judges. I had to speak to them about more than the material included in my research paper, because they read my paper prior to my presentation. After a recap of what I learned in my research for my paper, I talked to them
