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Retirement of someone who has decided to retire earlier than planned, due to ill health
This is a great light hearted retirement speech that is suitable for anyone who's doctor has advised them that it's time to retire.
Retirement may have been far from your mind previously. If somebody had told you a few months ago that you would be retiring today, you just simply wouldn't have believed them.
But when a doctor recommends that you slow down, and it's time for you to steer your ship into calmer waters, you disobey him at your peril.
We're Going To Miss You - Retirement Speech
It really is quite hard to know exactly what you are supposed to say to somebody who has worked for your company for many years, and is now retiring.
Your first instinct is to try and crack jokes, and lots of them. Or maybe even stumble through a speech about how professional they were.
Retirement speeches really are one of the hardest speeches to get right. It's very difficult to know what sort of approach to take with it.
Retirement Speech For A Popular Co-worker Or Employee
I worked as the Human Resource Manager in a bank for a number of years.
A number of times during my stay there all the employees and managers of the company would gather together in the office to say goodbye to, and express their appreciation of, a co-worker who was retiring.
The message in the retirement speech was usually the same, 'we're going to miss you'. But that's only telling half the story.
A Retirement Speech For Your Business Partner
This retirement speech is perfect to give at a staff gathering, or a special retirent dinner to celebrate the retirement of a business partner.
It is a very witty speech that plays on words to build up the ego of the departing partner and friend.
It uses quotes from Shakespeare to tell a funny story of how you sat down to write this speech, and came up with the best retirement speech formula you could think of.
A Retirement Speech For A Business Colleague To Suit Every Occasion And Every Speaker
Many people who are tasked with the job of giving a retirement speech to a colleague/boss/employee already have some stories or acknowledgements about the retiring person that they want to include in their speech.
So really what you need is an easily customisable speech full of extra anecdotes and stories, with helpful guidelines on how to add your personal touch to the speech.
If you fit this category, then I think this retirement speech is definitely the one for you.
A Retirement Speech For You To Give To A Colleague Who Is Retiring To A Life Of Golfing Bliss
This retirement speech is a very genuine 'thank you' speech to give to a retiring colleague.
"They say that no company ever employs a good man - they just borrow him for a few years in his life before he moves on to better and more enjoyable things."
This speech praises the retiring person for all their hard work and success while with the company, while borrowing some famous words from the likes of Winston Churchill to truly express the person accomplishments.
