How to Write A Retirement Speech That Wows: Ultimate Guide Picture this: After decades of hard work and dedication, the time has finally come. It’s your retirement, a significant milestone in your life that’s worthy of celebration. But how do you express your reflections on years of achievements, challenges, growth, and memorable moments at your workplace?…
How to Give a Toast Like a Pro What are the essential elements of a good toast? The essential elements of a good toast include a clear and concise message, a personal touch or story, a positive and uplifting tone, eye contact with the audience, and a heartfelt toast to the honoree. Adding humor or…
This section will cover two objectives: learning how great op-eds teach their point of view (rather than always arguing) and we’ll explore three op-eds and what makes them effective through the Hook, Teach, Ask, op-ed format. Objective 1: Learn what the best op-eds do and how to reverse engineer great op-eds to get inspired for…
You have put together a huge party for someone you love or care about deeply. A best friend, a spouse, a parent. It’s a milestone occasion—40th birthday, 50th birthday, 25th wedding anniversary. The event locale is booked, the food ordered, you went all out and booked a band or DJ. At the event, the crowd…
Rank promotions and special awards—for military, fire, police, EMTs, and other service organizations—are an opportunity to honor the great deeds and achievements of those that earned them. They are also an opportunity for you to demonstrate your leadership if you are the one with the honor of speaking at the event or giving the award…
It’s time for end-of-year bonuses and holiday party speeches and toasts by CEOs and team leaders. While you should definitely keep your remarks short (and ditch any powerpoints with flow charts), you should also come prepared with what to say than trying to wing it. Here are some questions that can help you figure out…
My role in working with companies is when the CEO or president needs help putting together a speech. Usually it’s for an important event and the current staff members just don’t have the time to help put it together or want an outsider’s perspective on the speech. Here are some ways to make the process…
That’s usually the first question I get (even before how much does a speech cost?). I’ll admit, speechwriting is a bit of a weird task. You are asking someone else to write the words that you ultimately going to say and be responsible for. There’s a lot riding on that. Here’s an overview of the…
