Pippen’s speech: ‘It was a great ride’

Pippen’s speech: ‘It was a great ride’
With presenter and fellow Hall of Famer Michael Jordan looking on, Scottie Pippen delivered a gracious and heartfelt eight-minute speech as he entered the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

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How to Deliver a Great Presentation

The Purpose of a Presentation

Unlike a meeting where all in attendance are expected to contribute and participate, a presentation involves a speaker who is trying to communicate with an audience.  There are two common reasons why a person might want to address an audience:

An old saw on speaking states that there are three [...]

Christiana Care Staff Celebrate Great Place to Work Week

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A great Christopher Hitchens speech in Canada

Nobody better than Hitchens.

Great Black Speakers: use of metaphors in powerful speech

Powerful speakers recognize the metaphor as one of the most powerful linguistic tools in their speaking arsenal, and they use them when appropriate. Like their cousin the simile, a metaphor is a figure of speech, meaning that it is a phrase with a meaning that diverges from the literal meaning of the words used. Specifically, [...]

How to Write Great Wedding Speeches

Weddings are always happy occasions and it is a time to celebrate the many joys of life. Friends and family of the married couple gather together and celebrate with the newly-weds as they begin their new life together. Every one of the guests wants to share in the couple’s joy, to congratulate and to [...]

Publc Speaking – 8 Proven Steps to Great Speech Writing

The writing of a speech can be time consuming and frustrating. With the right approach it can be a simple, worthwhile and an enjoyable experience for you and your audience. A step by step process to speech writing will assist in relieving some of the anxiety of public speaking.

Having great content with a worthwhile [...]

How To Plan A Great Speech – Setting Your Objectives

“To fail to plan is to plan to fail” The truth of this maxim is undeniable; and failing to plan a presentation has two inevitable consequences:

We deliver one of the biggest causes of audience disinterest – the “one size fits all” presentation that we regularly see demonstrated by the over-confident “I am great on [...]

Great Speeches of the 20th Century

Amazon.comStudents and teachers of history, enthusiasts of speechmaking, and folks needing something different to spice up those mix tapes with will enjoy this inspired four-disc tour of a century. It’s a bit heavy on events a baby boomer is most likely to be interested in, but there’s nothing wrong with knowing one’s audience. For the [...]

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, Updated and Expanded Edition

Product DescriptionThe definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expanded—with a new preface on what makes a speech “great.”

An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. This third edition is selected, arranged, [...]