[Class | Motivational Speaking]
Hello students and welcome to Motivational Speaking. For those of you whom I've not met or had in my Astronomy class, my name is Geno. You can call me any variation of my name as long as it's not entirely disrespectful.
In this class we'll cover communication skills and how to effectively use them to motivate, inspire, and persuade. Hopefully by the end of this year, you will have learned to communicate effectively.
I'll be frank with you - alot of you are in this class because you think it's easy. That's fine, actually, because it is. I will give no exams and assign no homework, aside from two prepared speeches, one as a midterm and one as a final exam. Aside from those two speeches, all our speeches will be impromptu - although you can do extra preparation if it makes you feel more comfortable.
As long as you actually come to class and participate in speech presentations, you will get an A in this class, easy. Also, you're free to make your speeches as fun, silly, and entertaining as you want as long as you stick to whatever theme you're going for. So really, this can be an easy, fun class for all of us. It's up to you.
Oh yeah, no interrupting people when they're giving a speech, and be sure to always applaud them when they're done. We'll be critiquing speeches occasionally, but when we do, keep the criticism constructive. Being mean will get you sent to the headmaster's office. Or maybe I'll just kick you out of class and let Resetti deal with you. We're all in this together, alright? So let's support each other.
Alright, that just about covers it.
So! Since in this class we'll essentially be studying communication skills, I guess it's important to know how we communicate. Sure, we use words to communicate with each other, but we communicate in other ways too. Can anyone tell me ways other than talking that we communicate with each other?
In this class we'll cover communication skills and how to effectively use them to motivate, inspire, and persuade. Hopefully by the end of this year, you will have learned to communicate effectively.
I'll be frank with you - alot of you are in this class because you think it's easy. That's fine, actually, because it is. I will give no exams and assign no homework, aside from two prepared speeches, one as a midterm and one as a final exam. Aside from those two speeches, all our speeches will be impromptu - although you can do extra preparation if it makes you feel more comfortable.
As long as you actually come to class and participate in speech presentations, you will get an A in this class, easy. Also, you're free to make your speeches as fun, silly, and entertaining as you want as long as you stick to whatever theme you're going for. So really, this can be an easy, fun class for all of us. It's up to you.
Oh yeah, no interrupting people when they're giving a speech, and be sure to always applaud them when they're done. We'll be critiquing speeches occasionally, but when we do, keep the criticism constructive. Being mean will get you sent to the headmaster's office. Or maybe I'll just kick you out of class and let Resetti deal with you. We're all in this together, alright? So let's support each other.
Alright, that just about covers it.
So! Since in this class we'll essentially be studying communication skills, I guess it's important to know how we communicate. Sure, we use words to communicate with each other, but we communicate in other ways too. Can anyone tell me ways other than talking that we communicate with each other?