The Essence of Great Speaking

Great speaking is not about being the best. You can be the world champion of public speaking, but true speaking is not a contest on technical skills. In my book, there is no best among the best inspirational speakers.

Great speaking is about your being unique. When you go up there on stage, people want to know what is so special about you. That is because they want to see you and not a made up speaker. They want to hear your stories. They want to be connected with a genuine person, not an imitation.

Great speaking is about sharing your gifts with confidence. When people see the true you they will open their ears, eyes, hearts, and minds to you. Then your goodness and beauty will flow to them.

Be Ethical, Eloquent, and Expert

I think every organization will benefit if they can turn their salespeople, team leaders, and trainers into motivational speakers.  Though there are many professional speakers who can motivate your people during sales rallies, I believe that you need to develop your managers into motivational communicators, motivational speakers.

Motivational speaking by its very nature is short-lived.  We need motivators every day. We need motivational speakers in your boardrooms and classrooms. Make your managers motivational speakers.

You already have the expertise. This is not always available to our celebrity high-priced motivational speakers. True, many motivational speakers are experts and can greatly contribute to the knowledge available in your organization. However, you and your managers are in the better position to motivate your people in the long term.

It is very important also that you observe the ethics of speaking. Value people. Lift them up and will never manipulate them.

Finally, the Inspiration Academy will help you develop platform skills and make you an eloquent speaker.

This is not a promise but a mission.

Be An Authentic Motivational Speaker

There are many motivational speakers in the Philippines who are Anthony Robbins and T Harv Ecker wannabes. The Inspiration Academy will not add more to their kind. Though these motivational speakers differ in their theologies, all of them sound alike when they talk about abundance and money. I think this is because they read the same books and quote the same dead people. They play on your emotions. They give you the same positive thinking and change-you-words-change-your-world mantra. Empty.

We do not want copycat motivational speakers.

The Inspiration Academy will develop motivational speakers who are authentic, believable,and credible.

Train more motivational speakers in the Philippines

Grab this opportunity.

I see the coming year as an opportunity to help those who want to help others. I like to train more people who desire to become motivational speakers.

The Mission: The Inspiration Academy will train 1000 speakers in 2012. 

I see that managers, salespersons, customer service champions, team leaders, and teachers will benefit from learning about human motivations, storytelling, selling, and platform skills.

There is no school for motivational speakers in the Philippines. There is no organization that promotes the ethics of professional speaking. This is why we have many motivational speakers who are copycats.

Directory of Team Building Venues in the Philippines

To help organizations who are looking for team venues in the Philippines, I thought of coming up with a directory of the best places to conduct team building.

If you are a team building facilitator or you know places which are great for team building, I encourage you to share these with us. we shall be posting your team building venues in here.

Please include the following when you submit your recommended team building venues below:

Name
Location
Accommodation
Facilities
Reason why you recommend this venue

I hope to hear from you very soon.

P.S. I decided to create a tumblr for this one. You can still submit your favorite team building venues here, or read also about other team building venues here – http://teambuildingvenuesphilippines.tumblr.com/