Speaker
- Guest speaker
Speech structure
- Compliments on the dinner, the occasion, the guests, the venue, the purpose of the organisation; pleasure to be invited
- Any personal relationship to the organisation to be proud of.
- One or more examples of the success of the organisation
- Invoke one or two topics of the moment, avoid party political
- Be humorous, witty, self deprecating, only tell jokes you and the audience are comfortable with
Tone
- Light and entertaining