7 Tips To Become An Event Emcee For Your Company
Being an emcee of a company event gives you the opportunity to perform public speaking. Speaking is a skill innate to human, but once you get to the stage and in front of the audience, everyone just find it difficult to speak. Event organizers tend to contact event production companies that provide event emcee services to help them on their events.
Someone trying to build a career in the industry as an event emcee needs to be a good speaker. And for you to be a good speaker you must be able to get rid of your fear and be prepared. Here are some of the things that you need to know to be a good public speaker.
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Research and learn
An event emcee must learn about the purpose of the event, the people participating in the event and some important facts that is connected with the event. It will be pretty embarrassing to speak in front of a huge audience when you don’t even know the reason behind the event.
Meet everyone
Before the start of the event, it is best to meet everyone involved in the event. Introduce yourself to the organizer, attendants, performers, managers and staff. It helps a lot to establish a degree of friendship with everyone so you will know who to ask in case you need additional information about the event. It will also make you feel comfortable when you give them a shout out. As someone working in the field of public event emcee services, it is not required to build a sense of camaraderie to the people involved in the event but it surely helps.
Learn the Schedule
Whether you are a public event emcee or a private event emcee, it is important to avoid lagging behind the schedule. Every event needs to be on time.
Avoid the shotgun method
The shotgun method is a jargon in the MC industry which means trying to do everything and missing the target in the process. It is best to finish a task first before moving into another topic of the event.
Know your audience
What is the composition of your audience? Their age, economic status, industry can affect their interest. Something that interest a teenager may be boring to the older people. Learning something about the audience can help you in keeping their energy alive and interest on the event.
Look sharp and be enthusiastic
Dress appropriately. You are not just representing yourself but also the program. But unlike a corporate event, a public event such as an emcee for a wedding gives you freedom to be livelier, more positive and enthusiastic. You can also crack a joke that is not appropriate in a corporate event.
Keep it brief if possible
Whenever possible, you should always keep your hosting brief. Always remember that the people went into that event to listen to the invited speakers or to watch the performers. Do it in a swift way. Get the microphone, make sure your message will reach the audience, introduce the next person then leave the stage.
Best of all, do not forget to smile. This guide will make your a better event emcee for your company events.
Well, you can always start by been a dinner and dance emcee for your company, watch the video example of a dinner and dance emcee below.