Reflective Essay Project 3

Reflective Essay

Project 3

Audience, besides being the group of spectators at a public event or the people who read a particular piece of writing, is the group of persons who writers and speakers work for. During project two, my interest was based on the Audience and I founded a really interesting relation between it and the message that the author is trying to communicate. In this project two, I had the chance to do some research about this relation but now in project three I will have the opportunity to show a specified example of how does this relation works and what can be done to have a better result. My message will be to create a balance between the audience and the message itself. If a person wants to communicate or transmit a statement, an idea or even tell a story, whenever this someone writes or speaks should focus on these two things in order to succeed because without an audience the message will be not worth it at all and without a message the audience would not exist at all. It is very important to have this balance in order to succeed, to create an impact on the audience and to receive a good response from it.

For this project three I decided that my audience will be public speakers, specifically, motivational speakers. I chose them because as I’ve said before my interest on project two was focus on the audience and I believed that the ones that care the most about it are the public speakers. Motivational speakers, also known as inspirational speakers, are the people who make speeches in order to motivate and inspire people to do something or to stop doing something, depending on the subject. Motivational speakers do not only value the audience by itself, but they value all the things that surrounds it, for example they value the response they get from the audience, the result and the changes they see on it at the end of a presentation and last but not least, the feedback they get from it. Unlikely other public speakers, motivational speakers have to go deeper before, during and after the presentation. They have to do lots of research and investigations in order to give value to what they are saying, they have to have confidence on themselves so the audience will believe what they are saying, and they really have to show interest on what they are working, they have to show the audience that for them it’s not only a job or a work but something they enjoy doing it. Having all of these things they will motivate and inspire the audience and the balance between the audience and the message will work perfectly.

After passing through some other ideas I decided that my public document will be a questionnaire directed to motivational speakers. This questionnaire will be like a “checklist” and it would contain a list of the primary basis of a speech. For example it would have questions such as “Have you practiced?” “Do you believe on what you’re saying?” “Do you have real examples?” I will make it really easy for motivational speakers due to the lack of time they have before appearing on stage and they will only have to put a checkmark on a little box that will be place after each question or point marked on the checklist. I believe this is a great and helpful tool to motivational speakers because besides being an easy tool, with this, they would make sure they have completed all things needed to present their speeches. These questionnaires will be placed on the theatres, convention centers, class rooms, etc.  and motivational speakers won’t take more than five minutes answering them.

Using a questionnaire goes beyond only asking the motivational speakers about having all the material prepared and all the research done. Using a questionnaire is like a little “extra” to see if the speaker has acquired the balance between what they are going to talk about and to whom they are going to talk. By using this little checklist, inspirational speakers will have the opportunity to see if everything its working correctly or if they are missing something. The relation that exists between the motivational speakers and the audience is stronger than other type of relation between the speaker and the audience. This strong and deep relation occurs because mainly, other speakers only talk to communicate something or to express something. What happens with motivational speakers is that they do not only do their work because they have to do it, but they really enjoy doing it and they have not only the desire but the ability to do it. If motivational speakers exists is because audiences need them. Most of the people need a role model to follow, someone that is strong, courageous and with confidence and that’s what this speakers primary are. To become a motivational speaker, you do not only need to do the research and have the ability but to really pay interest and concentrate your attention on the audience in order to help them. By providing this little checklist to the speakers they will have the chance to improve their presentations and to develop a better speech. By having all these things together and working correctly not only the audience will be the one receiving something and improving themselves but the motivational speakers will feel and see the effectiveness of their speeches projected on the results and would continue working and improving their skills in order to help more people.