MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

Good morning everyone and thank you all for your commitment to attend this motivation session. I am your manager of this company Berjaya Travel Agency.

Well ladies and gentlemen; let me start by saying that all of you have been done a wonderful job. You have showed your sincerity in carrying out responsibility as ticketing staffs with good personal workplace ethics and have given best services to our customer. I am sure that all of you will wonder the objectives of this motivation session.

Firstly, please give me your attention to my first slide. The graph shows our company incomes for January 2006 to September 2006. So what is your perception with our performance? It is consistent? We found out that our incomes were not consistent during the duration and our incomes from April to September had decrease. We are very upset with this performance. A research had been carried out to find out the reasons of the decreasing. We decided to make some survey to our customers, to get their views about our services.

Through the research done, the managing board had found out that the decreasing of income of our company is due to the communication breakdown between our ticketing staffs and our customers. There were lots of complaints regarding the poor standard of English among you all. As a ticketing staff, it is important to learn and speak well in English. This is because most of our customers are foreigner. Hence our purpose today is to give you motivation on how to improve your English communication. Here we have listed some methods. I have done handouts for you, so that you can write important points on it. Please take each one.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure that you have set in your mind that learning to speak English is difficult right? Actually English is fun. Learning to speak English well may be the best thing to improve your life. Learning English requires action. You may know all the learning tips, but if you don't start doing things, you will achieve nothing. The fact is, if you want to learn to speak English well, you must change your life.
During the management meeting, we agreed that to upgrade your proficiency in English communication, you should attend English language classes outside office hours by your own expense. By attending the class you will more understand about English and I am sure that you will find out that English is one of the easiest languages to learn and to use. Why am I saying that? It is because English use simple alphabet. Please give your attention to my slide. There are no special symbols such as é or ä in English. Try type in sweet, part, film on your computer then try süß (German), (Polish), (Russian). Which is easier?
Futhermore, English has easy plurals. It simply add s to a word. For example, one car, five cars; one telephone, two telephones... There are very few exceptions. Words in English are easy to learn. For example, in French, it's la fille and le chien. In German, it's das Mädchen and der Hund. In English, they're just a girl and a dog. And that's all you need to know. It is not complicated as in French and German. English also use shorts words. Most of the basic words are short: run, work, big, go, man. Long words are often shortened: sitcom = situational comedy, fridge = refrigerator, OS = operating system and these will save your time by speaking English. I am sure you will know all these advantages about English by attending the class. We are very grateful if you try to improve your English by attending the class because we realize that no one is thrilled about spending your own expense and your free time after working hours.
Besides attend English language class, there are many ways to improve your English communication. The problem with learning and teaching English as a foreign language is that all English learners want to speak English well; however, most learners don't want to spend time on learning English on their own. By reading more in English your English will be better. For example, read English books, newspaper and magazines. Read great books because every famous book was written in English or it was translated into English. There are an amazing number of tittles, from classics plays like Hamlet to modern thrillers like Jurassic Park. You are also can read short news articles in an English newspaper to better understanding news in English. Through reading you will find out how sentence is made. You will find more words and same words, then you will understand its meaning without refer to the dictionary by reading more and always in English. Furthermore, you will learn how to use the words. Sometimes, you will find word that you never use, try to find out what its meaning and use it in your daily conversation. Sometimes, to make you happy to learn English, you can read English language comics. For example, in Readers Digest, there is humour part which is the author write jokes in many ways and it is easy to understand it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure you are also having problem to pronounce word in English, right? Now, I will tell you an idea how to improve your pronunciation. For your information, English is considered a stressed language while other languages are considered syllabic. For example in French or Italian, each syllable receives equal importance (there is stress, but each syllable has its own length). English pronunciation focuses on specific stressed words while quickly gliding over the other, non stress words. Stressed words are considered content words: Nouns, for example; kitchen, Peter-(most), principle verbs such as visit and construct. Adjectives such as beautiful and interesting and adverbs such as often and carefully. Non-stressed words are considered function words: Determine example the, a. Auxiliary verbs; for example, am and were. Preposition such as before, of. Conjunctions such as but, and. Pronouns such as they and she. When you read, firstly underline the stressed words, then read aloud focusing on stressing the underlined words and gliding over the non-stressed words. Be surprised at how quickly your pronunciation improves! By focusing on stressed words and syllables take on their more muted nature.
You must always try to speak English. ‘Practice makes perfect!’ You will be proud of yourself when you find out that you are confident and can speak English very well! Call everybody 'you'. You can say 'Do you speak English?' to your friends and relatives. In other language, you have to use the right word for the right person but in English everybody is equal. Believes me that English makes you a more powerful and happier person. It is not difficult to imagine some situations where knowing English gives you a great feeling.
You can practice English in many places. English is everywhere. You can easily access English language television, music and website. You don't have to learn from boring textbooks. Enjoy English language music more. Believe me music is much better if you can understand the word. You are also can learn and use English at the same time. Using your English is especially important because it increases your desire to learn. You can use Google to find English-language websites with interesting information, you can watch American cartoons, you can play adventure games on your computer. If you do these things, you will not only have fun and learn English. If you see that a new English word lets you understand your favorite TV show (or communicate with people, or beat a computer game), you will want to learn more words. So you will learn English more, use it more, learn it more, use it more... If you also use effective learning methods, your English will grow faster than you can imagine. Here also I will show you some websites that will make you easy and enjoy learning English;
http://www.khake.com/page66.html
http://www.antimoon.com/how/motiv.htm.
http://www.hawaii.edu/mauispeech/html/preparing_speeches.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_138682_prepare-speech.html
http://www.laughter.com/speakers/speechprep.html
http://cdev.concordia.ca/CnD/studentlearn/Help/handouts/Oral%20Presentations/How_to_Prepare.html
Most of these websites will tell you the easy way to learn easy way to learn English. They will tell you how to learn English without mistakes. When you know the tips, what else to do? Yes of course, practice your English whenever you can! What kind of person would do all these crazy things? Only one kind. The kind of person who enjoys doing them. If you want to learn to speak English well, you're going to have to become that person. You cannot hate doing these things. Have you ever heard of a person who became successful by doing something he hated?
Because English is an international language it can create benefits that can reward you with opportunities that would otherwise be unreachable. English will give you the ability to enjoy conversations with people you would otherwise never have spoken to therefore making new friends and enjoying others cultures. For example, your job will getting interesting and you will not face any communication problem with the customer. Could you imagine it would be fun to talk to our interesting customer who comes from different country and culture and change a lot of information with them that other can't communicate with? Impress our customer whenever you open your mouth? Futhermore, most computer applications are in English, so you will better understand them and you will make big jumps in your career. This is because you have an advantage to access information that other people can't get. By learning English you will feel better about yourself due to the extra skills that you have acquired. Your added languages will no longer make you feel like an outsider and will give you the confidence you need.
Starting this week, I will personally check everyone the ability to speak English well. Everybody's chores will be graded on a scale of 1 to 10. We have decided, if you can improve your English communication within three months and we get good feedback about your performance in speaking English from our customer, we will give you extra benefit such as incentives in your monthly income. We are also would like to give you free traveling at our interesting places. We hope you are willing to improve yourself in English. English is one of the most important languages in the world. Remember learning English requires action. You may know all the learning tips, but if you don't start doing things, you will achieve nothing. Change your life style to speak English well. Straightforward communication is essential for good business. Our mission here is to make our income become more stable and increase through all the year after. We must have good performance to help our country more stable in economy. Lets all do your personal best to show yourselves that you are capable of speaking in English well. Thank you all again.