Acceptance Speech Goals

Let’s start off by focusing on our goals for this speech because after all an acceptance speech is still a speech.

Now it might be a short one it might only be 60 seconds long before that music comes in and you’re asked to get off stage.

But it’s still a speech.

Now it is different from a lot of speeches you’re not going to have a PowerPoint display.

You’re not going to have a beginning middle and end and stories and walking around the stage and talking for 50 minutes like a keynote speech.

But it’s still a speech.

It’s still an opportunity to make a great impression an awful impression or no impression.

So let’s start off with our goal.

Our goal should be to a make a great impression be thank the people who are relevant to helping us in our career whatever it is we did and see trying to put a focus on really probably just one idea that you want to leave people with.

Whether it is inspiring people to follow their dreams whether it is motivating people to work harder or through channeling whatever it is.

This is not an opportunity to communicate five points or 10 points but it is an opportunity to focus on one of life’s lessons or one really important idea.

So that’s what I want you to think of.

Think of the goal before we start this presentation.

Make people have a favorable impression of you that you’re poised that you’re a good communicator that you’re respectful of people that you’ve thought about this and planned it that you’ve got a particular idea you want to communicate and that you thank the people who helped you get to the point where you’re winning this award.

So those are the goals.

Let’s focus.

You may want to write them down but let’s focus on the goals.

Our goals are not to just get through this.

Our goal is not to thank our tax attorney and twenty nine other service providers so they give us a five percent discount next year.

Focus on what your goals are.

Before you even start preparing for this presentation.