Company Debating and Speech-Making (CDSM) Teams


This is a novel idea we created and felt that organizations can tap into it in order to generate and promote more company-friendly relations and unity through social activities in the workplace. It is intended to bring both management and workers together through debating and speech-making, similar to the ways sporting activities provide social cohesion in a group or an organization. But the proposed CDSM teams in a workplace enjoy added educational advantage through debating and speech-making, thus boosting their mental, emotional and psychological state of mind, besides providing entertainment to both the participants and audiences. The idea is to identify selected groups from various departments within the company or organization that will be trained to imbibe the basic rules and principles of debating and speech-making for their effective performance during the activities in the same way sports – football, basketball, badminton, volleyball, etc., are carried out both for physical development and nourishing entertainment. The topics in such debating or speech-making activities are to be centered round the company’s interests and policies, at local, national and international levels. The debates and speeches shall be conducted at least once a year, as integrated in the company’s calendar of events, while the official and local languages in the immediate environment shall be the media of communication during such activities. This will portray the company’s interest and support for the country’s language policy and its promotion. Unlike in sporting activities where players expend energy in real-time physical exercises, participants in debating and speech-making activities are set in competition from mental and educational perspectives, hence the need to reward those participants that have excelled in the competitions by way of encouraging them and future participants.