PUBLIC RELATIONS PRODUCTION TOPIC: IF YOU WERE REQUESTED TO DRAFT A 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPEECH TO BE DELIVERED BY YOUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, WHAT WILL YOU CONSIDER IN PUTTING TOGETHER THE SPEECH. BY DULCIE DELALI ATTIPOE
A speech is a presentation made orally, sometimes written and presented to a target audience at a specific time and occasion. In other words a speech is a statement intended to be passed on to the target audience. Speeches are for the ear and therefore your audience cannot seek for clarification and they are transit in nature. It should be long. Speeches are important tools used among other things to educate, provide insight about a particular occasion, persuade and influence the public, inform or announce something, activate or manipulate, entertain and celebrating an event. As a Public Relations officer, you are responsible for the communication between your organization and their publics and a speech is one of the tools used to communicate to the publics. It is therefore the duty of the Public Relations Officer to write those speeches as it falls within the functions of Public Relations personnel. There are several types of speeches including; informative speech, persuasive