If you are a speaker, a basic rule to remember is that event planners don’t want to keep having to email you and call you to get a hold of you. So if you are a busy person, assign someone the responsibility of checking your message and emails. Give that person access to your calendar because some planners want to get a commitment as soon as possible and if you take a week to return a phone call, another speaker that was waiting by the phone could end up getting your gig.
Plus not keeping in touch is a bad business practice. If you have to, setup an automatic email response with phone numbers and other people to call to get in contact with you. This helps build trust between you and an event planner. Very few planners do booking solely via email. Click to continue »
Have you ever wondered what event planners look for before they pick up the phone and book a speaker?
You and everybody else who gets paid to speak has the same question in mind. If you simply take a step back and consider the implications of hiring a speaker from an event planners perspective, then you will have a better idea of what they look for. Let’s examine this from their perspective.
Four areas event planners consider: Audience, Time, Money and Approach.
Audience
This is the highest priority for planners. Since their job is to create a successful event, they need to know their audience. Of course the target audience is set ahead of time. For example, is the event is called Youth Leadership Conference, then more than likely the audience is going to be youth age students that are interested in becoming stronger leaders. So planners are not going to want someone to bring a message about dropping out of high school. Click to continue »
Are you an advocate for young teens? If so then you know it’s time for adults to take charge. Teenagers need the help of adults to give them a realistic approach to what happens after high school. See the majority of teens only care about what their friends are doing and what is cool. This is why it’s vital to communicate to young people throughout the school year to keep them motivated to complete their school work. One of the ways in which schools are helping their students is by asking speakers to come to their school and speak to them.
Speakers who promote themselves as teen speakers have a list of topics that they cover during a speech. Some of those topics include: Drugs and alcohol, pregnancy prevention, state testing, leadership, peer pressure, school bullying and many more. Click to continue »
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Is your school ready to promote and participate in red ribbon week in 2020? Schools across the United States are planning red ribbon week activities to bring an awareness about staying drug-free. All week long students have an opportunity to hear from D.A.R.E. police officers, school administrators, drug awareness speakers and DEA agents as they all talk about demand reduction among teens. What is Red Ribbon Week?
The campaign is a week long effort in which everyone at school and work get to show their support of being drug free by wearing a red ribbon which is used as a symbol of support to stay off drugs. Schools have programs all week long and students learn about different drugs and why it’s important to stay away from them and how to deal with peer pressure. The campaigns have been effective and students are made aware of how trying drugs can have severe consequences.
The prevention week started to honor a fallen Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent by the name of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. DEA agent Camarena was tortured to death after going undercover to help reduce drug trafficking on the Mexican borders.
Red Ribbon Week Speakers for School Assemblies
One of the best ways in which to get your students excited about Red Ribbon week is to bring in a youth speaker to address the consequences of doing drugs. It’s healthy to get a neutral person who cares about teens and wants them to make positive decisions.
An anti-drug speaker can create a drug awareness in such a way that captures the students attention. Speakers know to use humor, props, and storytelling to get the message about drugs across to teens. Students will laugh and be challenged at the same time to say no to drugs. Schools are encouraged to purchase a red ribbon or bracelet for every student at their school so they can wear them all week long as a reminder of being drug free. Being drug free is a choice and students across American make lifetime decisions to stay away from drugs and alcohol during this week.
Points used to shape Red Ribbon Message:
Truth about drug usage
Different kind of drugs and how they effect the body system
How the mind is affected by drug abuse
Getting caught with drugs (jail, jobs, friends, family)
How to deal with peer pressure from other students or neighborhood kids
What a drug-free life can do for students
How I live drug-free and how it’s changed my life
Youth speakers typically fill up this week on their calendars fairly quick so be sure to book a speaker as soon as possible. Give your students a treat by having a red ribbon school assembly and invest in your students by hiring a motivational speaker to inspire them to make positive life-changing decisions.
Youth Speakers
If you are looking to book a youth speaker during red ribbon week, contact us and we’ll give you some suggestions.
Limited due to School Budget this year?
We highly recommend investing in Red Ribbon Week Videos. Purchase DVD set once and use it year after year. This video series comes with Leader Guides, Student Guides and PowerPoint presentations to help facilitate discussion in the classroom. School across the country are using these videos to open up life-changing discussions in their schools.
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Every school deals with the horror of having a class bully beat up the top student, or making sure a normal 16-year-old won’t miss a single class. Sadly though, these things are a part of middle and high school life. With the growing number of problems facing the youth today, it is no wonder that more and more universities are considering to hire youth motivational speakers for their assemblies. These speakers are tasked to provide thorough seminars that will inspire the youth to live their lives better as well as to avoid various distractions to their studies.
If you own a university, you might be thinking about hiring these experts to help you out with your students. There are a number of reasons why you must get in touch with youth motivational speakers to help improve the way you mold your students.
The answer to this is simple. Anybody who is in charge of a group of students can book a speaker. Simply choose a topic that you want a speaker to address and then contact experts in the field who speak to youth.
Do youth speakers charge?
Absolutely! Be aware that booking a youth speaker will come at a cost. That’s okay though you want to pay for a speaker. Just like you want teachers to get paid for teaching because you know they are going to do the best teaching job they can do. The same is true for speakers and they know that their reputation is on the line if they do not prepare for their speech. Plus many professional speakers live off of referrals so they know to impress those who book them so they can increase the number of days they speak. To youth speakers, every day that they are not speaking is a day that they are not getting paid, believe me, speakers want to keep their calendars full. Click to continue »
Every time a conference is held for young people, there is a specific need to have a youth conference speaker. Perhaps this is primarily because most young people are very different from adult audience. For one, young people are very impatient. If they could not relate to whatever a speaker is saying, they will just immediately turn away and start chatting with their seatmates.
Additionally, young people could not help their reaction to fun. Once they sense that boredom is hovering somewhere within a speech, they will find ways to entertain themselves, which includes not listening to the speech altogether. There are so many reasons, but it all goes down to the fact that having young people for a conference audience will get you stressed out. Click to continue »
Kids are very easy to talk to, as making the pitch of your voice a little higher would be fairly enough. Adults, too, have very much cultivated themselves to know what to do when they are being talked to. Teenagers, on the other hand, will require so much more effort on your side.
It’s not that young people are generally disrespectful. It just happens that, being in a transition stage, they are at a very emotionally unstable time in their lives. They don’t know what proper conduct means, they don’t even care about what people think about them. For most teenagers, the world revolves around them, everything else that disagrees should go away. That’s the reason why a lot of parents go haywire once their child gets into adolescence period. Now, if talking to one teenager is excruciatingly difficult, what more talking to a large group of teenagers? Click to continue »
Although speaking is a talent, it takes a lot more than that to become a good speaker, more so, an effective youth speaker. Youth are composed of a diverse crowd or audience. Not to mention, they can be very sensitive too. It is crucial to get their attention and keep them glued to whatever you are talking about, or else, your effort will only be futile. If you have been thinking of becoming a speaker to the youth, or you have been doing the job but want to improve on your craft, be aware of the characteristics which make a good speaker.
First, it is important to be sincere. Youth want a speaker who is “real”. They want someone who is not trying to make a fool out of them. You can do this by first, speaking in a conversational tone. Second, speak with passion. Talk about the things you truly believe in. Third, let the youth know some of your secrets, so they can know who you are as a person. Click to continue »
Adults are a totally different audience than youth. Yes, it’s easier to communicate to adults because you somewhat have an idea of what they are going through. Teenagers on the other hand have a plethora of issues that they can be going through and it’s hard for speakers to hit the mark.
But that’s no excuse not to speak to them. In fact it’s more important to speak to youth than it is adults because the decisions we make as young people can affect the choices we make as adults. There are many adults that wish they would’ve made different choices when they were teens.
Youth can be rebellious in their own ways. They will do whatever their parents tell them not to do just to act bad. Some will even runaway from home. Many will not get good grades in school and will skip classes and get behind. This of course leads to students dropping out of high school. Click to continue »
Are you looking into hiring a youth speaker but have no idea where to look?
Well you are not alone. Many event planners are in the same boat because there is a lot of pressure that comes with hiring the right speaker for your event. It’s good to first see who the audience is going to be. If you bring in a youth speaker just because your audience is teens, you may be in trouble.
You must look into the background of your speaker and even interview that person over the phone. The last thing you want is to bring in a speaker that is full of himself and cannot relate to any of the students.
Some questions you may ask a speaker before you hire him to speak to your youth.
How long have you been in the speaking business?
What is your highest level of education?
Do you have a set fee?
Do you have a one sheet with speaking topics?
These are only a couple of examples of questions that you must always ask before hiring a speaker. The point is to have a reference sheet for you to look at when communicating with a speaker. Speakers know they have to asnswer questions and they are ready to provide answers. This is not like buying a car where you have to think about it, give a price, wait while the salesman talks to his manager. Not at all, you simply ask enough questions for you to feel comfortable about hiring the youth speaker you are contacting.
Be professional about it. Keep in mind that you and the speaker need to have the students in mind every step of the way and this will help you make a decision on which person best fits your audience.
Are you looking into hiring a youth speaker but have no idea where to look?