Business Meeting Invocations

There are many instances when an invocation is needed to help get a meeting started in the right direction. Contrary to the belief of some, an invocation is not a religious prayer, but rather it is a public request by the speaker to those in the audience or attending the meeting for guidance, good luck, power and other good things. Many of the people who regularly use invocations find that taking .

An invocation is a public oratory statement made in front of a group of people, often as the introductory oratory offering for an event. While invocations are perhaps most commonly used in religious services as a prayer or request for blessings, they are also presented as the first speech or statement at non-religious events like business gatherings.Business meeting invocations serve the basic purposes of initiating the meeting and setting the tone for the event, and may take several forms. The basic goal of the invocation is as a public announcement made to communicate information to its attendees, including motivational words relevant to the gathering.Often the invocation will just be a simple statement of gratitude for the gathering and an expression of commonly shared values, wishes and goals. The announcement may include details about the reasons for the event and be accompanied by non-religious requests for guidance, success, harmony or any other goals that the meeting organizers and participants would like to accomplish.And while traditional religious invocations (like prayers) may be appropriate for a gathering of businesspeople who share the same faith, such as a meeting of Christian business owners, in general the orator who presents the invocation at a business meeting must be aware of and sensitive to the fact that the meeting's audience will most likely be composed of individuals from different religious backgrounds, cultures and beliefs, and as such the words of the invocation should be non-denominational and appropriate for all attendees to hear.One way to accomplish this is to offer any invocation requests to the audience, rather than to a deity or higher power. For example, rather than expressing specific religious concepts, the orator who presents the invocation can ask attendees to meditate silently on their personal wishes and goals for the event. This allows those attendees who wish to pray or seek spiritual or divine guidance to do so privately, while also in the company of colleagues.