Introducing the Speaker
When you are introducing the speaker you are making a speech (one or two minutes), therefore it must be organised (clear opening, body, conclusion.
Make your introduction thoughtful and HELPFUL for the speaker. State why the speaker is the best person for the audience to be listening to on the topic to be spoken about.
Establish the mutual interest of the audience and Speaker.
OPENING – grab attention, reiterate importance of the topic.
BODY – why subject, this Speaker, to this audience, at this time.
CONCLUSION – Present the Speaker to the audience.
Set the mood of the audience –PREPARE audience for Speaker!
KISS -Keep it Short and Simple!
Introduce the Speaker, NOT deliver the Speaker’s topic.
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And what should the Speaker do?
Read SpeakerNetNews to find out what Speakers could do when they are being introduced.
http://www.speakernetnews.com/post/introwait.html
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Quotable Quotes
MOTIVATIONAL/ TEAMWORK
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. Stephen Covey
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people see difficulties in every opportunity – I like to see opportunities in every difficulty! Winston Churchill
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't accept that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. James Allen
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. Anonymous
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles. Jim Rohn
Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. Tryon Edwards
SUCCESS
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. Anna Quindlen
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why . . . I succeed. Michael Jordan
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus
Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it. Anonymous
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. H Jackson Browne
HAPPINESS
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. The Dali Lama
Happy is the man who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for the future. A Gibson
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mohandas K Gandhi
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D Roosevelt
Happiness is like a butterfly, which, when you pursue it is always beyond your grasp, but, which, when you sit down may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S Buck
Between stimulus and response is a space. In this space lies our freedom to choose our response. In these choices lie our growth and our happiness. Stephen Covey
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. Publilius Syrus
ATTITUDE
If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right. George Bernard Shaw
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. Betty Reese
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. Denis Waitley
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
Do-so is more important than say-so. Pete Seeger
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
Most people see difficulties in every opportunity – I like to see opportunities in every difficulty! Winston Churchill
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember-the only taste of success some people have when they take a bite out of you. Zig Ziglar
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F Kennedy
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Charles Swindoll
Attitude, not aptitude determines altitude. Anonymous
(in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, also attributed to Jesse Louis Jackson )
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. G K Chesterton
The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. John Milton
TOMORROW
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. Babatunde Olatunji
Instead of living in the shadows of yesterday, walk in the light of today and the hope of tomorrow. Kay Arthur
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Charles Franklin Kettering
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
CONFIDENCE
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I've lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. John Wayne
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