New Year's stand-up of the director: how not to fail the main speech of 2023

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Corporate holidays with their usual attributes: summing up and a collective feast are in the offing all over the country. As time goes on, the Internet is filled with advice on how not to be left without work afterwards. But in the pre-holiday bustle, experts almost forget about directors and heads of departments, for whom the New Year's corporate party is no less stressful. But it is they who, with their presence and, most importantly, congratulations, set the mood for the evening.

Megaplan corrects the omission and together with public speaking coach Dmitry Chumak tells how to turn a boring annual report into a fiery speech. Try using stand-up techniques - a stage genre whose popularity is breaking all records today. These techniques will help make any report lively, interesting and inspiring. Well, the director of Megaplan will share one of his techniques - as is tradition in the afterword. So the most inquisitive ones will recognize it - those who read to the end. Just mind you, no cheating.

The article will be useful for managers and owners of companies who want to turkey whatsapp list congratulate their team on the upcoming New Year 2024 in a non-trivial way and become the star of the evening. For convenience, we divided the preparation for the speech into three stages: thinking over the speech, rehearsal and, actually, the speech.

Dmitry Chumak



A small digression. Dmitry Chumak is not only a great expert in public speaking, he also runs a very useful Telegram channel where he shares tips on how to cope with anxiety, set your voice and communicate with your team. He was also the first host of the Megaplan podcast. By the way, this year we relaunched the podcast and took 14th place in the TOP 100 new podcasts of 2023, according to Yandex Music. Join us if you haven't already. Now let's get back to our topic.

1. Thinking about a New Year's speech
Sometimes it seems from the outside that a stand-up comedian's performance is pure impromptu. In fact, stand-up is constructed and presented in such a way that it seems to the audience that it is a spontaneously delivered speech. As a rule, its text is prepared, rewritten and tested on friends before being presented to the public.

If you feel like a fish in water even in front of a large unfamiliar audience, let alone in front of familiar employees, you need to prepare: at least to raise numbers and dates, refresh your memory of all the good and even the bad, which ultimately taught you something good. At the same time, it is important to keep in mind the goals of the New Year's speech, of which there are usually several:

inspire employees,
remind them that they are one team,
say thank you and increase motivation,
to create a sense of pride in the company's success.
In stand-up parlance, you have to come up with an act. This is a monologue in the form of a consistent narrative about the year's highlights, united by a common theme - drawing a certain final line. Rely on the strengths of your team, remember what really went well this year and what results you achieved together.

The most memorable parts of a speech are the beginning and the end - remember this. To outline your speech, use the generally accepted structure of building a stand-up.

1. A strong opening: a memorable story or teaser with the promise of its conclusion at the end of the speech. The audience's attention will be yours right away, and the hook in the form of the ending of the story at the end will help hold it for the rest of the speech.

Our inner child's need for fairy tales has not disappeared.

“One day, someone decided that we had grown up and suddenly stopped telling us fairy tales. But our inner child’s need for fairy tales has not disappeared. Fairy tales are still needed. Only in the adult world, a fairy tale begins with different words: “Once upon a time,” “I remember,” “In January 2018,” “Once upon a time,” “I was thinking,” “This morning I was walking to work and remembered.” Try telling people fairy tales first, and then making a whole series out of them. “And I’ll tell you the end of the story when we talk about the results. After all, timing is everything,” advises professional speaker and first host of the Megaplan podcast Dmitry Chumak.