The Professional Speaker

1. The Keynote Address

Time:		15-20 minutes
Objectives:	Identify the basic differences between keyote speeches and other kinds of speeches. Learn how to evaluate audience feeling and establish emotional rapport. Learn and use the proessional techniques necessary for a successful keynote presentation. Develop a speech style and delivery that effectively inspires and moves the audience to adopt your views as a collective reaffirmation of its own.

2. Speaking to Entertain

Time:		15-20 minutes
Objectives:	Entertain the audience through the use of humor drawn from personal experience and from other material that your have personalized. Deliver the speech in a way that makes the humor effective. Establish personal rapport with your audience for maximum impact.

3. The Sales Training Speech

Time:		15-20 minutes
Objectives:	Tell a sales audience how to sell a product by using a planned presentation. Inform a sales training audience about the human experience of the buyer-seller relationship. Use entertaining stories and dynamic examples of sales situations. Inspire salespeople to want to succeed in selling.

4. The Professonal Seminar

Time:		20-40 minutes
Objectives:	Plan and present a seminar with specific learning objectives. Relate to the audience by using a seminar presentation style. Use seminar presentation techniques to promote group participation, learning and personal growth.

5. The Motivational Speech

Time:		15-20 minutes
Objectives:	Understand the concept and nature of motivational speaking. Apply a four-step motivational method with the purpose of persuading and inspiring. Deliver a motivational speech to persuade an audience to emotionally commit to an action.

Note: For some speech projects, the presentation time may also include additional segments for such activities as question-and-answer periods, depending on the project.