<p>I have some club officer positions I want to run for (Key club, Spanish club, Science Olympiad), and all of them require a speech. I'm not extremely popular, but I am passionate and overall nice to people. I really want to add some funny parts to it, but I'm stuck on how i want to construct this. Any advices? More specific, the better! Thanks in advance!!</p>
<p>Popularity mainly. Failing that, cake bribes, humour and talking about things people care about can work.</p>
<p>Humor. Once you’re able to make somebody laugh, you already have their attention. </p>
<p>Also, Be cool and talk to as many people as you can, but still be genuinine about it. People will be able to realize if you’re only talking to them just to get they’re vote.</p>
<p>I mean, I’m assuming that the only people voting are those who are a part of your club, so it doesn’t matter as much about being popular in the entire high school population as it does being well respected in that club.
Talk about why you want to run and ideas you have to move the club in a forwards direction.
And remember that a lot of time when people vote for things, it can be very trivial why they decide one person or another.
When people see a list of positions and names on a check sheet after everybody has just gave a 2 min speech, they might not really have a strong opinion either way but just be marking down a name so that they can submit the rest of the ballot - no matter what happens, don’t take it too personally. =P</p>
<p>As someone who just became student body vp by a large margin (had to brag lol) here’s my advice. </p>
<p>The speech is meaningless. Don’t make any promises because you really don’t know the boundaries of your power and whether you’ll be able to keep them.</p>
<p>It helps to be popular, but that isn’t everything. The girl I beat was more popular. But you absolutely need to be the more likable person.</p>
<p>You need to be able to approach strangers and make them laugh and feel like you’ve been best friends for years. That’s how you win.</p>
<p>And give out stickers. Most people will wear them just cuz they’re free stickers, and they serve as free advertising</p>
<p>I misread this question and thought you asked how you could get ********s lol.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’ve been part of student council and various other leadership role in my life. &the only key is to get your name out. Walk up to strangers, introduce yourself and becomes friends first. Don’t randomly walk up to them and tell them to vote for you. That never really works. Food is another thing that works great! but not all the time. If you are really passionate and care for others, then show it. Be confident but no cocky and respect others and they will respect you back.</p>
<p>@AnimeGirl: Oh god why?!?!??</p>
<p>Probably a combination of bribery, rigging and slander. [Probably some sort of Pythagorean ratio would be good here, like 3 hours of Slander: 4 hours of Bribery: 5 hours of Rigging]</p>
<p>[Lol, I bet you think I’m kidding…]</p>
<p>JK</p>