subject: How to Be a Keynote Speaker? [print this page] How to Be a Keynote Speaker? How to Be a Keynote Speaker?
Being in the position to establish the link between the crowds, whatever it may be, colleagues or just plain unknown people is a task that not many can accomplish with ease. You may have to take on the task of being the keynote speaker and as such some responsibility has to be taken into account. Your primary task is to establish a frame, a modus-operandi notion scheme that everyone else has to follow. You have to be careful to establish from the start as to what is the current theme of the discussions that will follow.
Most of the times the event that has just proceeded has seen a lot of people talking and debating on a certain subject, be it politics or literature, or social events and many other types of speeches. As the keynote speaker you have to accumulate and distill all of the aforementioned discussions into one single, easy to follow threat of summarizing information.
In the case of graduation ceremonies you will have to state your opinion on the years of study, on the relationship with the teachers and also on the change that you have gone through as a student. The idea is to try not to offend anybody but, if possible, to have a real and genuine emotional speech going for you. Most people, given the lack of preparation will sometimes have a poetical and why not say it cheesy approach to the whole matter, but it is to be avoided. If you are to produce a psychological response from the part of the others, it better be genuine and heartfelt.
