Motivational

When I hear about public speaking, i think of speeches that are being given in front of a large crowd with someone standing in front of the audience in formal attire reading the speech off of a piece of paper. In many cases though, the public speeches that I have been around have been given as motivational speeches. I have both received and gave motivational speeches. As team captain of the basketball team it was one of my jobs to motivate the team before and during each game in order for us to go out and compete at our best and try to win. As a member of the team, I had to listen to our coaches give speeches after every game about how we did a good job, or about how we need to come back out next time and do better. During halftime of our games, my coach usually tried to motivate us to come out in the second half and to work hard. As a coach though, sometimes he did not do a very good job at motivating us and belittled us more than encouraged. When he did this it was a negative type of public speaking, instead of encouraging us to do better it made us as a team not want to play. The way a speaker presents himself is a major factor in setting the mood of the audience, especially as a motivational speaker.