by Vote of Thanks
A vote of thanks speech is a well-authorized speech where the speaker offers a vote of thanks to the organizer, host, and other participants. No event can be successful without people who dedicate their resources and time to make sure everything is faultless. Like any other crucial meetings organized in schools and colleges, a vote of thanks speech is also vital for association meeting in college. It’s helpful to publicly let everyone know the roles and responsibilities and express your gratitude.
A good vote of thanks speech for association meeting should include:
- Thanks to all the people who helped me either directly or indirectly, to make the meeting successful.
- Thanks to all the participants for attending the meeting, and more.
Keep the following points in mind while giving a vote of thanks speech:
- Your first sentence should let the participants know you are thanking them.
- In 1 to 2 sentences, tell the audience why you have been asked to give a vote of thanks speech.
- Start your speech by showing gratitude to your honorable guest, host, and audience.
- Try to keep each thank-you brief, but honest and warm.
- By sure to remark any work that benefitted your college and then add in it your thank speech.
- You can add your belief that the concerned group of people and your college hold good ties in the future.
- Show the speakers that you were actively listening to their words. Add some reference what they said, and that stuck with you.
- At the end of the vote of thanks speech, talk about what makes your college special.
- Thank the head for the opportunity of giving thanks speech on behalf of their college.
Occasional Speech
A speech of introduction introduces the main speaker at an event and inspires the audience to listen to that speaker. Any speech of introduction needs to be brief. After all, the person making the introduction should not be the focus of attention. The introductory speech usually has three components:
(a) Provide a brief backdrop or background of the main speaker
(b) Introduce the speaker’s topic.
(c) An invitation from the audience to warmly welcome the speaker.
Commemorative speeches and tributes are speeches that pay special accolades to an occasion, extraordinary person, event, idea, or monument. The purpose or scope of this speech is to reflect the emotions felt by the audience as well as underscore the reasons for the speaking event. Delivering a tribute and commemorative speech involves careful attention to language. These speeches are intended to inspire the audience, and the use of the richness of language should serve to evoke the appropriate emotions within the audience as well as the honored persons.
Tributes and commemorative speeches have certain characteristics. First, they are short and eloquent (Letteri, 1997). In most cases, this speech should be one to five minutes long, which means the words should be chosen carefully and efficiently for impact. Second, these speeches are written to anticipate the emotional needs of the audience. There is a difference between the need to be festive and the need to grieve, and the speech should contain language that conveys the appropriate feelings. Rather than focus on a great deal of information about the person, event, or thing being honored, the speech should make reference to the emotions of the audience and respect those emotions; whether directly or indirectly. When the speaking occasion is honoring a person, the speech’s content should contain a balance between the professional and personal accomplishments of the honoree. While the speech should emphasize the person’s professional work, his or her personal activities.
Theme Speech
