MGTA36H3 Chapter 006: Management Communications - Chapter 006
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Goal of these speeches are to be inspiration, so choosing the right words and coming across to your audience as sincere are important. Words should arouse emotion and focus the audience"s thoughts and feelings on who or what is being honored or commemorated (jokes are best left to professionals). Welcome people into companies or organizations or groups to events and is a short speech used to begin an event or occasion. Sets the mood and flow upon upcoming events and outlines the occasion for the audience so it knows what to expect. Expectation is that speaker will associate the values of the welcoming group with those values possessed by the person being welcomed. They tend to have a strong impact on audience. (ie: wedding receptions, awards). Strong introduction should generate enthusiasm and give listeners a quick overview of the person they are about to encounter.