Free guide
What to say when it’s your turn to speak.
A toast, a eulogy, a few words at a retirement. This guide helps you find what’s true about the person you’re honoring and say it in about two minutes.
What’s inside
A few pages you can use this week.
Think about the honoree, the guests, and you, before you write a word.
Ask three people the same question, and listen for the thread running through what they tell you.
Five moves, about two minutes, and a closing line others can say with you.
A short list of what pulls a room away from the person you’re honoring, plus a first question for five occasions.
Why it works
It starts earlier than the first line.
Most advice about speeches begins with an opening joke. This guide begins with the people and their stories. It uses all five steps of the gather& method on one moment: the moment you’re handed the microphone.
This guide is one small piece of gather&honor, our book, coming soon.
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