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Inspire, Enlighten, & Motivate
Whether you're asked to congratulate, motivate, or persuade, here is inspiration for your speeches—and for your own reflection.
The next time you have to give a talk, leave people talking by drawing from best-selling author Noah benShea's new, original offering, Inspire, Enlighten, & Motivate. This valuable resource provides wise and touching thoughts, stories, humor, and one-liners designed to stimulate ideas and help you "punch up" your professional speeches. This book also contains reflections to help spur and serve your thinking in your reflective daily life. Educators called upon to give a speech, address parents, and motivate students will also find a good source for motivation, encouragement, and enthusiasm.
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9780761938675
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2003
- Page Count: 192
- Publication date: May 08, 2003
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Description
The next time you have to give a talk, leave people talking by drawing from best-selling author Noah benShea's new, original offering, Inspire, Enlighten, & Motivate. This valuable resource provides wise and touching thoughts, stories, humor, and one-liners designed to stimulate ideas and help you "punch up" your professional speeches. But this book does more. It also contains reflections to help spur and serve your thinking in your reflective daily life.
Educators are inevitably called upon to give a speech, say a few words, address parents, and motivate students. Inspire, Enlighten, & Motivate will be an essential resource for adding motivation, encouragement, and enthusiasm to your presentations.
Each chapter is full of wonderful thoughts, quotes, and concepts that will help you, the educator, get your point across to your audience, whether they are students, parents, or colleagues. Too often an educator feels that he or she cannot be heard. Here are thoughts and ideas to inspire both you and those with whom you share them. 
Now you can also have inspirational quotes from Noah benShea delivered daily directly to your inbox, via twitter, or on Facebook.
Key features
Passages, quotes, and anecdotes can be peppered into a speech to enliven, punch-up, inspire, etc.
Six chapters are framed to focus on likely presentation events within K-12:
- Icebreakers
- Persuasive arguments
- Values
- Ceremonies
- Laughter
- Condolences/Sympathy
Author(s)
Noah benShea
Noah benShea is one of North America's most respected and beloved poet-philosophers, and a source of strength to millions around the world. He is the international best selling author of 20 books translated into 18 languages, including the famed Jacob the Baker series. He has spoken and taught at the best universities; served as a Dean at UCLA, visiting lecturer at MIT and The Fuqua Graduate Business School at Duke University, guest professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School, and a Fellow at several long range think tanks including USC's Center for the Humanities, and the esteemed Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
If you "Google" his name you find over 25,000 websites tied to his work. Noah benShea's inspirational thoughts are branded with some of North America's largest companies, dramatically impacting the workplace, and have appeared in hospitals, banks, on sugar packets, apparel, teddy bears and on over 30 million Starbucks Coffee Cups. His weekly columns on life were published for five years by the New York Times Regional Syndicate, and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has spoken at the Library of Congress, is included in the Congressional Record, been published by Oxford University Press, and theWorld Bible Society in Jerusalem.
A highly sought after public speaker, he is also a private advisor to corporate and political leaders, serves as an Ethicist for the The Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas that Improve the World Order, and in 2007 his work in Russian translation won 1st Prize at the European Intellectual Book Fair in Moscow. Noah benShea is also the Nat ional Laureate for the ALS Association.
Now you can also have inspirational quotes from Noah benShea delivered daily directly to your inbox, via twitter, or on Facebook.