COLLABORATION

Principle of Collaboration

• Participation• Collective• Transparency• Independence• Persistence• Emergence

Impact of collaboration on business performance

Report Collaboration Progress

• Meet its mission and achieve outcomes• Be sustained• Be inclusive and diverse• Increase capacity• Increase cooperation across organizational,

administrative, and jurisdictional boundaries• Stimulate innovation, new ways of doing business• Facilitate changes in policy, laws, and programs

Experiences Sharing

Prince Mahidol Award Conference • Good experiences• Build trust• Create ownership• Full participation

• Bad experiences• Donor domination• No responsibility• Conflicting opinion among partners

Caution

• Keep promise• Be sensitive when dealing with VIP• Respond positively with request even in the situation we

cannot accommodate request• Be creative when finding solutions (request to change

hotel)

Speech Writing

Group Work 1

Situation• You are hosting a study visit from Ministry of

Health, Myanmar• Mid-career level, medical doctor and health

personnel, 40 persons• Your boss has to come to welcome them on

the first day of the study visitAssignment• Write a welcome speech for your boss

Steps in writing a speech

Know your audience/eve

ntSet objective

Plan a well-structured

speech

Get information

Writing a speech

Know Your Audience

• VIP or any senior level to be addressed?• Why they are here?• What do they have in common?• How big an audience will it be?• What do they know, and what do they need to

know?• Do they expect discussion about a specific subject

and, if so, what?• What is the audience’s attitude and knowledge

about the subject of your talk?• What is their attitude toward you as the speaker?• Why are they interested in your topic?

Know the event

• Is it formal?• Or informal?• Any protocol specific to this event?

Choose Your Core Message

•What is the goal of your speech?• To inform, persuade, motivate or entertain

• Only one single idea • Too many ideas can lead to confusion among audiences

Find information

• Use facts and figures relevant to the topic

• Information or the content should be of good quality and that too in right quantity

• Adding examples, personal experiences, quotes and appropriate humor

Develop Structure to Deliver Your Message

• Introduction/Opening•Body•Conclusion

Well begun is half done

• Establish your credibility and likeability• Grab the attention of audience • Engage their interest• Raise a thought-provoking question• Make an interesting or controversial

statement• Recite a relevant quotation or even

recount a joke

Body

• The largest part of your speech• Formulating a series of points that you would

like to raise• Key information• A statement about a project• Implementation of a project• Opinion

• The points should be organized

Closing

• It is an opportunity to:• Summarize the main points of your speech• Provide some further food for thought for your listeners• Leave your audience with positive memories of your

speech• End with a final thought/emotion

• Adding a call to action at the end would motivate the audience to think and later act on your message

Spice it Up

• Make your speech more interesting• Add variety and interest• A good speech has pacing• Vary the sentence structure• Use the active voice and avoid passive sentences• Repeat key words and points• Ask rhetorical questions in a way that attracts your

listeners’ attention• Personal experiences and anecdotes• Use quotes

• Caution• Do not overused• Used with care

Template for welcome speech

• Acknowledge and welcome important guests• Stating the name of the event and host and

thank them for coming• Give a brief introduction of the host• Give a brief introduction of the occasion• Introduce the next speaker if appropriate• Made everybody feel at ease, eagerly

anticipating what is to come

Group Work 2

• Write opening speech for Public Health Minister at the International Conference on Obesity