The right speech

ACE will undergo his English language oral assessment today.

I have seen speakers deliver extended, dry remarks filled with complex financial projections, or sermons filled with dire predictions about the future - and admonitions to work hard or else.

The right speech, I feel, needs to be authentic, and it needs to be delivered with sincerity. It is more important for the message to be delivered from the heart than with flowery language.

I am still learning how to communicate. I am used to writing articles and preparing reports, but these are not really very effective communication tools. People can fall asleep after 2 minutes of reading. But speech can be like an article is we are not careful. So the speech has to have emotional content. To be effective, we have to tap into people's sentiments, feelings and emotions.