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You'll find everything you need to deliver memorable speeches with confidence, from expert advice and ready-to-use templates to practical tips for every occasion. Whether you're celebrating weddings, giving workplace presentations, or honouring loved ones, our comprehensive guides and techniques help you craft the perfect words. Great Speech is here to help.

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Prize Giving Speech for School or College

A prize giving speech for a school or college needs to strike the right balance between formality and celebration. The prize winners, along with everyone gat...

End of Year Speech for Club or Team

So, another season’s over and it’s time for your end of year speech. Whether it’s been a glorious success, dire disaster or, as is more often the case,...

Chief Executive's Annual Speech to Employees

The CEO’s annual speech can be a motivational masterpiece or a nightmare of tedium and many of us have sat through our fair share of both. It doesn’t mat...

Engagement Party Speech: Toast to Couple

Although not every couple chooses to have an engagement party, they are becoming ever more popular and as a result, there’s a growing chance that one day y...

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Speech of Appreciation for Retiree or Leaver

It’s always a major occasion when a long standing colleague retires or leaves the company, and for those who knew him or her particularly well, saying good...

Techniques for Managing an Awkward Audience

Most audiences are polite and sympathetic, but it’s an unfortunate fact of life that the more speeches you make, sooner or later, you’ll run into a group...

The Power of Pace and Pauses in a Speech

Few things are guaranteed to put even the most vibrant, supportive and interested audience to sleep as quickly as a monotonous, expressionless delivery. It�...

Harness the Power of Rhetoric in Your Speech

Rhetoric – the art of influencing and persuading people with words – goes back to the days of Socrates and Cicero, and while many of the “rhetorical de...

Burns Night: Toast to 'the Lassies'

The toast to the lassies is one of the essential speeches at any Burns’ Supper, and along with the lassies’ reply, now performs an important role which a...

Runner Up's Speech

Coming second is always a bitter-sweet moment. You’ve done awfully well – but you didn’t win the prize. Trying to put how you’re feeling into words a...

Seconder's Speech of Support

Many clubs, societies and official bodies require anyone standing for election to a particular office – and sometimes even just to become a member – to b...

Top Tips for Dealing With Sensitive Subjects

It’s a very rare – and down-right unpleasant – human being who maliciously goes out of his or her way to give offence or cause deliberate upset to her...

Winner's Acceptance Speech

There aren’t many feelings to rival winning something, whether that’s a sporting competition, a business trophy, a political contest or a talent contest,...

Making an After Dinner Christmas Speech

Christmas is a time for gatherings, and sometimes that calls for a speech. If you’ve been asked to speak at such an event, then you have an important job t...

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