Groom Wedding Speech

January 30, 2010 by · 6 Comments 

The eagerly awaited marriage ceremonial service has ended and the reception celebration has started. Before long, as the bridegroom, you will have to stand up and give a groom wedding speech that will be sincere as well as entertaining and fascinating to hear. How you go about organizing your speech is important as you’ll need to keep everyone pleased including your groom, her mother and father, your parents, and all your guests and wedding attendees. If you have done all required of you to the book, you should have already had the chance to get some practice in when you delivered that impressive dry run dinner speech, something bridegrooms are traditionally supposed to do.

Your turn to speak is usually after both sets of parents and stepparents have spoken and prior to the best man wedding speech. Although there are elements that are believed to be the fundamental principles for the groom wedding speech, you can put your individual spin or impact on them to make it extraordinary. First off, thank your mother and father for all their support, counsel, and love and support they’ve given you up to this point. Then it’s time to thank the bride’s mother and father for giving you their special daughter and right away after that, you should turn to your groom, salute her, and speak about matters like how you met up, why you recognized she was the one, then drink to her for hooking up with you, and any other thing you feel is important to mention about her, that you are aware your invitees will be delighted to hear, especially her parents and family.

After you have raised your glass to your groom, thank all your guests, the best man, the bride’s attendants, and all the other individuals who assisted to make your wedding day unforgettable. If there are particular people, like maybe your new sister-in-law who made all the favors, remember to thank her specially. It is very useful to have a list of the people you desire to thank during your speech, so you don’t miss anyone. You don’t have to actually compose an address, but you’ll in all likelihood be a trifle uneasy so penning names on index cards is entirely acceptable for ease in remembering everybody during your bridegroom wedding speech.

Your speech does not have to be lasting because there will be others who will desire to toast both of you and say a few words. The style of your speech should not be one thank you after another because you are likley to bore the guests. When giving thanks to individuals, such as her mother and father, say thank you, but incorporate something else in your thanks like, “Tom and Sally have been so accommodating and supportive through the wedding ppreparation phase – a thing I am so appreciative of for.” Saying 1 or 2 lines to the person or people you are thanking besides the “thank you” will ensure a good groom wedding speech. Last, some brides select not to speak at the wedding reception as it is not absolutely necessary. If your bride does not care to speak, when you do give thanks to individuals, make certain you utilize the word we instead of I, when giving thanks to everyone. Your groom wedding speech can be ideal, familiar, and responsive if you maintain these suggestions in mind when preparing your speech.

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Employee Satisfaction and Exit questionnaires Make Sense

July 13, 2009 by · 7 Comments 

With the need for many organizations to be more streamlined and productive a business can sometimes find itself with groups of employees working under pressure that if not addressed could then lead to low moral and a high turnover of staff. Organizations that have a highly motivated workforce can benefit enormously and having a workforce that is both motivated and productive should not be regarded as being mutually exclusive to one another.

If problems are left unresolved then companies run the risk of alienating their employees and events can then cause employee frustrations to boil over resulting in managers finding themselves on the back foot, faced with problems that cannot be ignored.

Ideally employers would take time to understand the needs of their employees and learn from their experiences of working on the front line, but employers are often themselves tied up day to day fighting their own fires.

By automating much of the intelligence gathering process and providing the findings in a format that can be readily analysed online surveys provide employers with an efficient, effective and low cost method to help achieve a pleasant working environment, where staff satisfaction and productivity is high.

 

Dissatisfied & unproductive

There are many reasons why employees may be dissatisfied with their job and more often than not staff frustration is channelled into a demand for higher salaries and less hours. Managers who tackle problems thinking it is all about salary and hours, will often find later that they have been dealing with the symptoms and not the root cause.

 

It’s not just about the money

The following are barriers to achieving productivity, none of which are likely to be resolved by increasing salaries or reducing hours:-

  • Inadequate training
  • Out of touch management
  • Out of date working methods
  • Lack of proper tools and equipment

Increasing salaries is not always a solution to employees’ problems nor as many studies have revealed is it the most important motivator for most employees.

Take the case of a single mother who is juggling a full time job with the need to look after three children. Out of frustration she may demand more money so that she feels that she is able to cope where a better solution, for both her and the company, may be more flexible working hours.

 

Good communications is what it is about

It is in the interests of all organizations to encourage good communication. Without good communication between personnel and management, or where management wait until problems are raised, management may assume that they have a content workforce when in actual fact the opposite is true. It can take only one small problem and one employee to feel aggrieved for an entire workforce to develop a destructive ‘them and us’ attitude.

 

Improving communication

It would be ideal if the employer could meet with each employee one on one but in practice this would only be viable for very small organizations.

Meetings between management and worker representatives are good in theory but can often spiral into becoming talking shops and losing their purpose as both sides become more familiar with one another and the meetings run the risk of being hijacked by the more extreme personalities.

Suggestion boxes can have their value but they can be viewed as token efforts by management as they wait for personnel to highlight a problem.

Newsletters can be useful, but their main purpose is generally to inform and not discuss issues.

 

Keeping the initiative

Conducting employee satisfaction surveys on a regular basis you are able to ask each employee specific questions and present a pro-active management initiative where the whole workforce can be consulted on various issues. Surveys are able to provide a level playing field between the quieter and more vocal employees.

Consultation should not be seen as a sign of weakness, a confident manager will take counsel from all quarters before making a decision. By retaining the initiative and conducting a survey the employer is able to tackle problems from a position of strength as opposed to waiting for problems to arise and develop out of proportion.

Leave a small problem unresolved and it can lead to a situation where a minor problem might just break the camel’s back and the mood of the employees change from positive to negative over night.

 

It’s quick and easy

For the majority of companies online surveys represent a proactive and low cost solution. They are quick to design and for many companies, where the majority of personnel have desktop computers, they are quick to deploy direct to the individual.

In situations where not all of the personal have access to a computer there are options available to implement the online survey solution such as providing a shared computer, have an operator input their responses or as a last resort, a hardcopy survey.

 

Job satisfaction

There are elements that together will help towards providing an employee with job satisfaction, including company ethics, working environment, methodology and ethos to having effective and decisive management. Job satisfaction brings benefits through improved productivity and motivation from a workforce that feels that they are treated as individuals and not a commodity item.

 

Educate and inform

Online surveys can be used to educate and disseminate information on to the workforce, ensuring that the ‘message’ is consistently delivered and does not suffer from the Chinese whisper phenomenon where a message can become distorted as it is passed on.

An online survey can explain a difficult situation and get valuable feedback from the employees as to the best solution. It is rare in this situation that the workforce would appear negative; it is more likely they will feel informed and empowered and that might be enough to unite the workforce and turn a negative problem into a positive challenge.

 

Exit surveys

Exit surveys are a good way for management to ensure that when people leave the organisation they are leaving for the right reasons and not due to reasons that if appreciated earlier could have been addressed and resolved. Although identifying a problem may not prevent a person leaving it could solve an unappreciated issue that may, if left unchecked, result in other key personnel also leaving.

 

For a Sample Employee Satisfaction Survey:- Employee Satisfaction Survey Template

For a sample Employee Exit survey:- Employee Exit Survey Template

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