Paul F Burgueño

Tips for Graduation Speech

A little over a month I had the honor to lead my fellow MNDTIA the graduation speech for my class of Master in Telecommunications Law of the IEB that I attended last year.

Now, with more perspective, I think I am able to give some tips on how to make a good speech to promote, without repeating the mistakes I made and based on the experience in these lines.

The tips contained in WikiHow are quite successful:

1. First sit at the computer or if you prefer to face a notebook with pencil in hand.
2. Make brainstorm about the following key points: the history of the institution, covering training, experience, future expectations, councils in the development of activities, thanks, bye.
3. Begins to unite the ideas using connectors in the form of wording.
4. Established to whom it may concern the discourse present authorities, teachers, peers, parents, etc..
5. Begin with a greeting addressed to those present in order of seniority.
6. Continues to give a little historical background about the institution, its creation and impact during their years of service.
7. Generally exhibit coverage provided by the college training.
8. Discuss your experience within the institution, the way that it has contributed to your personal training, technical, social, etc..
9. Expresses the expectations you have about your future employment or academic, by focusing on the influence of the training they received.
10. Go to your teammates and give them some training tips to keep looking in the area in which they are graduating. If the institution is likely to continue such training, advises taking these alternatives.
11. Thanks for all the things mentioned in the institution by the authorities representatives.
12. Say goodbye in a respectful manner.
13. Get to the highest authority and greet him warmly with a handshake, then go up to the person sitting to his right and then presents the entire body of these authorities (usually the highest authority in the middle sits and sits immediately below right, so we advise you to do the greeting in that order).
14. Draw back from the official stand on the opposite side to which you uploaded.

The above twelve points helped me write the speech, but I would add these as well:

• Avoids reading. It is better to learn, but if you had to read, and speak slowly, you can memorize entire sentences as you go and say them looking at the audience.
• The day before, read the speech at least 4 times out loud (to take advantage of memory REM), and one more the day of the speech (to use the RAM).
• Make sure that the speech does not exceed half sheet extension
• Speak slowly, vocalizing and mark each word of the speech.
• The duration of speech in normal situations should not exceed 5 minutes and less than 9.
• He directs the speech to look for people who've written, but do not forget the rest. (One trick to "look without seeing their faces" is to direct the light to the neck of the assistants do not notice them. Although it is best to look into the eyes!)
• At the end of the speech, wait two seconds and look to your classmates before retiring from the bench.
• Do not sing too, do not declaim and do not put soniquete questions.
• It balances you and not rotes on your feet. Do not put your hands behind your back. Please support the stand, if you are more comfortable, so you also avoid shake hands.
• Prints the speech in a disproportionately large font size.
• Dress in a suit, white shirt and dark tie to highlight what is the speech.
• By going to stand and walk past the desk of the Director, the Deans and Professors, stop a moment, tilted his head slightly and continued walking.

I hope these tips are useful to students who follow me the Master in Business and Law of Telecommunications, Internet and audiovisual as well as all those that you may have the great honor of leading the last words of the course to your classmates.