Saturday, 22 October 2016

What You Should Consider When Booking Motivational Speakers

By Dorothy Reed


If you are an event planner, the choice of the speaker will determine the kind of event you will have at the end of the day. Sadly, most planners spend most of their time on the decoration, food, and the entertainment, only to bring a boring event person. That spoils the day as the speaker is the core person of the day. Thus, if you intend to invite people again at a future date, then you have to ensure that you give the persons an excellent speaker who will leave them wanting more than they get on this day. The following are the crucial tips to consider when looking for motivational speakers.

Know the type of audience you are expecting for the event. The way you will address youths is not the same way a group of adults or even old people will be addressed. The tone and mode of presentation at large differs. Therefore, understanding your audience consequently results to understanding their needs hence you will be able to get the appropriate speaker.

Avoid the last minute rush. To make sure the day is going to be a success, book an appointment as early as possible. Talk to the speaker; ask them like two months before the date of the event if they will be free on the specific date. Most of these speakers if they are good in what they do, they are booked on earlier.

Make sure the person you will pay to talk to your audience is well equipped with the knowledge to handle such issues. Make sure they will remain relevant throughout their speech. For instance, they should just talk about teens if it is teens they are talking to, not individuals who will fall out of context in the long run.

Locate the possible sources where you can get the referrals of such candidates. If this is the first time you are doing this kind of show, then you need to be sure of the kind of person you get. The internet can help you get the possible referrals. Moreover, your friends, as well as close relatives, can come and give you referrals of persons fit for the show.

Booking an appointment with the speaker before hiring him or she is important. During the one on one discussion, you not only get to get clarification on unclear issues but also you can determine some of his skills such as eloquence, his relation to his or her audience too.

Most of these well-established speakers have a social media page they operate; you may even go an extra mile of looking through the comments people had written earlier about how the individual gives his speeches. This way you will see is the speaker has many positive comments then this means that they are a good speaker.

After discussing and agreeing by word of mouth, get to sign a formal document that acts as evidence that there was an agreement to avoid any of the party going contrary to it.




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