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Definition:
A motivational speech is a highly emotional speech that serves to urge and stimulate a group to pursue significant goals, choose proper strategy, correct mistakes, etc. Additionally, a motivational speech arms the audience with tools and awareness they should possess to succeed in their personal lives and in the modern world.
Characteristics
A motivational speech can combine components such as real life situations and memorable stories. A motivational speech is a variety of a persuasive speech and it is pragmatically oriented: a recipient of a motivational speech should experience a certain impact, i.e. change his/her behavior, act in a certain way, or agree with something. To this end, an imperative mood should be used in motivational speeches. Energetic phrases starting with "do", "donate", "join", "create", "buy" are most likely to reinforce the effect of a motivational speech.
Preparatory Research
A motivational speaker should realize what positions or actions he or she is going to popularize. Thorough preparatory research is required to take into account numerous factors that can influence the process of listening and further decision-making. 1) Social factors: status, education, values of the audience 2) Pragmatic factors: requirements, needs and interests of the audience.
Organizing
A standard motivational speech can be based upon several patterns. These are: 1) Monroe's motivational sequence 2) Comparative advantages pattern
Topics Below you'll see a list of general categories that can be narrowed to a topic for a motivational speech. Use your imagination and elaborate on these topics. These examples are meant to motivate you to create motivational speech topics yourself! To help you in the right direction: What do you want to achieve? What behavior are you trying to change? What level of agreement do you at least want to accomplish?
Or these . . .
Become involved in ... Buy ... Change ... Choose ... Do ... Donate ... Establish ... Join ... Make ...
Consider these . . .
Breakthroughs - Career Development - Challenge Change - Coaching - Commitment - Communication Competence - Competitiveness - Confidence Decision Making - Discipline - Effective Meetings Ensure Safety - Ergonomics - Focused Thinking Future - Involvement - Inspiration - Integrity Interpersonal Skills - Leadership - Negotiation Tactics Personal Effectiveness - Personal Growth - Personal Improvement - Personal Productivity - Personal Wellness - Responsibility - Self Respect - Set Realistic Goals - Stress - Teambuilding - Teamwork - Trends Values - Work Ethics