Give credit in speeches, where it’s due. That’s right, I owe a lot of people. In fact the list is ‘this’ long. How am I going to fit it into this acceptance speech? I’ll do it alphabetically. Perhaps chronologically would be better. We’ll all be here till doomsday or at least until I have lost your attention and sympathy. But I have do it, otherwise I’ll be causing offence. Ok, I might just say ‘to those of you I haven’t already had a chance to thank personally’. Or what about, ‘to everyone who has helped me’? Or ‘for everyone who has worked so hard, inpsired me and encouraged me, I thank you all’. You could dedicate the award to them, or why not give them the award altogther?

Now, that’s going too far.

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Stand on a chair and shout if you have to.

It is a lovely evening, perhaps the last of the southern hemisphere’s summer. The crowd have gathered on the top floor of the museum for the opening of an exhibtion. There is wine, canapes, a little background traffic noise. There is a great sense of expectation. There will be speeches. Being late, I’m at the back grabbing a glass of wine and accepting a canape. Someone of the far side of the room is talking. I think, because I can’t see and to be honest I can’t hear. Neither can anybody not in the front row of the circle that has gathered around the vertically challenged, mumbling speaker. I don’t know how long the poor chap worked on the speech. I don’t even know what it’s about. I’m too busy accepting more canapes and looking around for something that will signal the end and a need to applaud. I wonder how many basic simple things might have been changed to make this a speech to remember?

I wonder again, what a waste of a speech opportunity this is.

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Recently, in the guise of researching motivational speeches, I came across some great info on integrity and speaking your truth. This is a little more than speaking your mind, for the more emphatic of you out there. Integrity it seems comes from the inside and is smelted right in the core. As a result ‘being true to thy self’, means not only do you mean what you say, but that people will actually believe you. I think for the public speaker, there can be no better foundation. Quite something in this cynical day and age. In case you are worried, it is entirely possible to regain your integrity. That’s a bit of a relief then, eh? Our motivational speech on doing just that will shortly be available on speechwriters.com

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Actions and the words that inpsire them. If actions speak louder than words, then how come Marcel Marceau is not fondly remembered as a wonderful public speaker?
The truth is we need words, directions, ideas and inspiration to spur us onto action. This is why a good speech is so important. You really have to use words and good words to motivate people to do things. Indeed it is the ‘doing’ that counts, but it is your words that start the ball rolling. Inspire, inspire, inspire! Go set the world on fire.

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