Public Speaking: Compelling Speeches & Presentations
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Public speaking is required in almost every business role, but a variety of factors cause many professionals to struggle when talking in front of an audience. In this training course, you learn how to strengthen your speaking skills, build your confidence, and establish rapport with the audience — all while practicing and delivering presentations in a safe environment with personalised feedback.
You Will Learn How To
- Speak publicly in a convincing, confident, and concise style
- Deliver dynamic and effective presentations
- Employ a method to create materials that support a compelling speech
- Build audience rapport through eye contact, vocal delivery, and body language
- Sharpen your public speaking skills by integrating feedback
Important Course Information
Recommended Experience:
- Basic familiarity with PowerPoint
- Prior public speaking experience
Course Outline
- Creating Compelling Speeches
Employing a proven five-step method
- Hooking the audience
- Identifying the critical need
- Presenting the key ideas concisely
- Explaining the payoff
- Calling for action
Identifying your goal
- Informing
- Persuading
- Motivating
- Entertaining
The skill-building cycle
- Determining your baseline public speaking skills
- Taming fears and increasing confidence through practice and preparation
- Leveraging your own personality and style
- Increasing your awareness and abilities by evaluating other speakers
- Integrating audience feedback to fine-tune your delivery
- Building an Effective Presentation
The construction and design process
- Setting objectives
- Assessing and addressing the needs of your audience
- Matching purpose and point to the audience
- Creating the storyboard model
Mind mapping as a presentation design tool
- Rapidly capturing presentation ideas
- Structuring content for clarity
- Converting mind maps into presentations
Shaping the presentation
- Applying learning theory for optimal information transfer
- Employing 7+/-2 rule to aid comprehension
- Volume vs. retention
- Identifying the key points
Designing high-impact slides
- Making text, colour and graphics work together
- Limiting content to increase effect
- Employing information graphics to simplify complex data
- Avoiding visual traps
- Engaging Your Audience
The speaker as a visual aid
- Directing the audience's natural eye movement
- Moving dynamically within the presentation space
- Engaging the entire audience with effective eye contact
- Synchronising gestures to the verbal message
Animating your speech with vocal variety
- Adding pitch modulation and dynamics
- Reinforcing points with pauses and silence
- Reducing verbal distractors
Delivering memorable openings and closings
- Five opening strategies to spark interest
- Motivating the audience with a call to action
- Adding Interactivity to Your Presentations
Drawing the audience
- Stimulating participation with preplanned questions
- Conveying content through topical questions
- When to ask rhetorical, group or targeted questions
Handling questions from the audience
- Reward, restate and respond
- Keeping your answers short and simple
- Getting back on track after an unplanned interruption
Managing the post-talk Q&A session
- Pre-empting "hot-button" questions
- Staying aware of the message you are conveying
- Priming the pump when there are no questions
- Rehearsing and Delivering Your Speech
Building confidence with practice
- Effective rehearsal techniques
- Incorporating audience feedback to improve a presentation
- Staying within your time limit
Delivering your presentation
- Opening dynamically to create a winning first impression
- Applying your public speaking toolkit
Convenient Ways to Attend This Instructor-Led Course
Hassle-Free Enrolment: No advance payment required to reserve your seat.
Tuition Fee due 30 days after you attend your course.
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In the Classroom — OR — Live, Online
Tuition Fee — Standard: £1095
6 - 8 Feb
(3 Days)
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM GMT
London / Online (AnyWare)
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25 - 27 Jul
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2:00 PM - 9:30 PM BST
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5 - 7 Dec
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2:00 PM - 9:30 PM GMT
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23 - 25 Jan
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6 - 8 Mar
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Alexandria, VA / Online (AnyWare)
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22 - 24 May
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Tuition Fee
Course Tuition Fee Includes:
Training Hours
Standard class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest:
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
AFTERNOON START class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest
9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
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Earn 17 PDUs
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Technical : 16 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 1 PDUs