So congratulations, you're about to retire. That's good news, I hope for you. And now you have the opportunity to give a farewell speech. This may be the last business speech you ever give. Now, you may be going down to the street to work for the competitor, or be hired back at the company you're leaving as a consultant. So I don't mean to presume but it's still a special moment.

You're not just being escorted out the door unceremoniously your fellow workers, your colleagues are holding a party or some sort of an event for you, where you're going to be allowed to speak, you're going to give your retirement speech. Let's make it a good one. Now, this is obviously not the time to settle scores, to reopen old bitter things that happened with employees that you're perhaps not as fond of. This is the time to spotlight. The good things you've done to this organization, the people you've worked with the public positive memories, you want to leave people with a good taste in their mouth with you because you don't know what the future holds. You may need their help.

If you're running for mayor City Council, you may want them to hire you back as a consultant into yours when things have gone south in the company and your expertise is needed. So you may be retiring, but it never hurts to leave on positive terms. To build goodwill. I'm not asking you to lie and sugarcoat things if you hated it, but let's focus on the positive there must have been something there at this organization that kept you coming back. Let's focus on that. So, in a moment, we're gonna hop right in with the exercises to get you prepped and ready and confident about this.

But for right now, I just want you to start to think and reflect upon. Why did you really enjoy in this organization, what meant something to you?