ASSIGNMENT OUTLINE: INSPIRATIONAL (MOTIVATIONAL) SPEECH
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Course number: GEN 2134
Faculty responsible: Ms. Priyanka Das
Hand out date: Week 7
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To inspire audience through emotional appeal
Hotel Administration 2
Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
Week 8
20%
Assignment Overview:
The purpose of this inspirational speech assignment is to motivate your audience to improve personally, emotionally or professionally by relying on their emotional appeal.
Your speech should inspire the audience by appealing to noble motives and challenging the audience to achieve a higher level of beliefs or achievement.
Speech Objectives:
1. Connect with listeners' feelings, fears or goals at this particular time and occasion regarding your topic.
2. Explain why listeners' current attitudes, feelings, values, concerns, hopes, desires, fears and goals may be inadequate or counterproductive.
3. The last portion of the inspirational speech should be devoted to the need for change, what listeners can do to bring about this change, and the benefits this change will bring for everyone.
Your speech should also include what you learned in previous projects about purpose, organization, word usage, body language, vocal variety and research of your topic.
Time limit: 5 minutes with 30 seconds grace
Requirements:
This project emphasizes speaking to inspire. You are to:
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Select one of the suggested topics given below. However, you can choose to select a topic beyond the suggested topics with prior intimation to the instructor.
-Effective leadership
-Importance of self-motivation
-Avoid procrastination
-Dealing with difficult people
-Motivate to be responsible
-Building self-esteem
-People who changed the world
-Breaking bad habits
-Importance of being ethical
-Be a better role model
-Overcoming stage fright
-Inculcating the habit of reading
-The future belongs to the curious
-Eliminate waste and stimulate value
-Breaking the habit of lying
-Dealing with big life changes
-Essential habits for success
-Achieving goals
-Be optimistic in life
-Importance of Self-discipline
-Letting go of the past
-Living with purpose
-Teamwork for success
-Treat people as you wish to be treated
-Importance of time management
-Filtering what you say
-Detour to Dreams: Hope is not a 4-letter word
-We can’t always control events but can control our attitude
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Appeal to noble motives and challenge the audience to achieve a higher level of belief or achievement.
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Appeal to the audience's needs and emotions, and use stories, anecdotes and quotes to add drama.
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Avoid using notes , since they may cause the audience to doubt your sincerity and conviction.
How You Say It:
You can add drama and impact to your speech if you:
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Use quotes, stories and anecdotes throughout the speech. Human-interest stories and anecdotes about overcoming adversity and achieving success attract the audience's interest and add meaning to your message.
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Use language that unites listeners and establishes a bond between you and them, such as you and us.
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Use vivid words that allow listeners to visualize all of the good things that will happen if they do what you say needs to be done.
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Use action verbs to convey power.
 Follow the Monroe’s motivated speech sequence format (as below) for organization of your speech outline. (Follow sample outline format)
1. Gain the audience’s attention:
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Attention-getters grab the audience, arousing curiosity about what the speaker is going to say.
2. Identify unfulfilled needs.
Establish a clear, urgent, and unfulfilled need in the mind of the audience. This is a critical step in the sequence. No solution should be proposed during this stage.
3. Propose a solution that satisfies.
Present the solution to the needs or problems described in Step 2.
4. Visualize the resulting satisfaction.
Intensify audience members’ desire for the solution by getting them to visualize what their lives will be like once they’ve adopted it. Use vivid images and verbal illustrations to support the benefits of the proposed solution.
5. Define specific action
This type of speech depends on the quality and style of your delivery. Your presentation should be direct and urgent, showing that you really care about how your listeners react. You must prove to listeners that you are sincere and believe in your message. Be confident and forceful, and show enthusiasm and vitality. Use body language to demonstrate your conviction. Your gestures should convey energy and power. Your conclusion should be emotionally powerful and dynamic. It should challenge listeners or demand that they commit to your cause, and the conclusion should dramatize the benefits of doing so. Finish with a memorable final statement.
Motivational Speech Grading Rubric:
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I. Introduction a. captured attention b. stated thesis/central idea
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a. organized main points effectively b. transitioned between main points c. constructed effective argument
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III. Conclusion a. restated thesis b. summarized main points
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IV. Delivery a. eye contact b. effective vocal delivery appropriate rate and volume
clear articulation varied inflection no vocal fillers
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V. Audience a. the speaker was well prepared and presented the information in a credible manner
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Comments:
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Print your speech outline that states the speaking points and general organization of the presentation. Your ‘presentation outline’ will be turned in before your actual in -class presentation.
SAMPLE OUTLINE
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Topic:
Specific Purpose:
Central Idea:
INTRODUCTION
I. The Attention Step
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REFERENCES
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