Graduate Global Messenger Training

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• Graduate Global Messenger Training
• Date
• Location
• Trainer

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Introductions

• Name
• Where are you from?
• How long in Special Olympics?
• Question What would you do with a room full of
  money?

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Objectives of Workshop

• Learn about ALPs Special Olympics
• Learn more about speaking techniques
• Focus your speech on a specific target market
• Train empower Global Messengers to give more
  speeches
• Encourage Global Messengers to seek speaking
  opportunities

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Athlete Leadership Programs

• Athlete Choice
• Meaningful positions
• Training for existing leadership
• Training Available
• Global Messenger
• Governance
• Athletes as Volunteers
• (Coaches Officials)

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Your Role as a Representative

• What is your most important role as a
• representative of Special Olympics?
• Educate/Promote in an articulate, knowledgeable,
  convincing manner
• Know the facts about Special Olympics

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At the Tip of your Tongue

• Key Elements of the Philosophy
• All abilities can participate in sports, can
  achieve, do have value
• Selling Points/the Brand
• Special Olympics changes lives
• Special Olympics inspires all
• Special Olympics creates heroes
• Special Olympics celebrates differences
• Mission

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The Mission of Special Olympics

• The mission of Special Olympics is to
• provide ---- ----- ------ -------- and
• -------- ----------- in a variety of
• ------- ---- ------- for -------- ---
• ------ with ------ -----------, giving them
• continuing opportunities to ------- --------
  -------,
• ----------- -------, ---------- ---
• and participate in a ------- -- -----, ------,
  ---
• ---------- ---- ----- -------- other Special
• Olympics athletes and the community.

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The Mission of Special Olympics

• The mission of Special Olympics is to
• provide year-round sports training and
• athletic competition in a variety of
• Olympic-type sports for children and
• adults with intellectual disabilities, giving
  them
• continuing opportunities to develop physical
  fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and
  participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and
  friendship with their families, other Special
  Olympics athletes and the community.

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Mission Statement Voting
Courage
Joy
Competition
Children/Adults
Physical fitness
Olympic-type
Year-round
intellectual disabilities
Sports Training
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What makes Special Olympics Unique?

• No charge to athletes
• Awards for all
• Advancement to higher levels of competition
• All ability levels
• Divisioning
• All abilities can participate in sports,
• can achieve, have value

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Special Olympics Facts

• For people with intellectual disabilities
• For athletes 8 years and older
• Worldwide Programs in over 150 countries
• Offers 26 official sports
• Year-round
• Sports training AND competition opportunities
• Team AND individual sports

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The Mission of Special Olympics

• Describe what the Mission
• means to you

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Role of a Global Messenger

• Be attentive during the workshop
• Understand Special Olympics
• Learn ways to provide information
• Prepare and Practice a 3 to 5 minute speech
• Demonstrate the ability to give a public speech
• Maintain contact with mentor and Special Olympics
  staff
• Represent Special Olympics professionally

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Role of the mentor

• Know the athlete
• Understand Special Olympics
• Provide support as needed
• Commit to working with the athlete
• Allow the Global Messengers to express themselves
• Provide constructive feedback
• Stay in touch with Special Olympics staff
• Represent Special Olympics professionally

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Presentations 101

• Know your audience
• Appropriate appearance
• Tools for Talks
• Winning Behavior
• Speech Coach Cues
• The Five Ws and H
• Speech Structure

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The Five Ws H

• Who
• What
• When
• Where
• Why
• How

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Parts of a Speech

• Opening
• ?
• Body
• ?
• Closing

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Communication Skills

• Traits of a successful communicator
• Listener
• Know the audience
• Know the topic
• Know your goal
• Other strategies?
• The telephone game - Communication is 6 WHAT you
  say and 94 HOW you say it

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Preparing for a Speech

• Why should I give a speech?
• To tell people about Special Olympics
• What type of speech will I give?
• Informative Persuasive Recruitment
  Introduction
• Who am I talking to?
• Target Markets

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Target Audiences

• What is a target market?
• Who are our target audiences?
• Sponsors
• Families
• Other Athletes
• Schools
• Service Clubs
• Who else?

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Target Audiences

• What are the benefits of Special Olympics for
  each group?
• Its your job to sell Special Olympics to this
  target market

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Sponsors

• Corporations
• Business decisions
• Individuals
• Personal decisions

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Families

• Meet other families
• The whole family has fun
• Social activities
• Family pride

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Schools

• Recognition of school and students
• Character education through volunteer
  opportunities
• Opportunities for students to coach
• Unified sports
• Improve physical fitness sports skills

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Other Athletes

• What would you say to a potential athlete??

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Enhancing your Speech

• Humor
• Technology
• 3 minutes
• Speak from personal experience
• Be witty
• Talk to Special Olympics staff about their goals
  and how you can help through speaking

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Targeted Speeches

• Select your target audience
• Write a speech
• Practice your speech

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Turn up the Volume

• Practice speaking while watching your speech
  coach for cues on being louder or softer

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Evaluation

• What is one thing you learned
• today from this workshop?
• What will you do when you go home?