Public Speaking Training: Create Compelling Speeches & Presentations
Course Outline
In this Public Speaking & Presentation Skills training course, you learn how to strengthen your public speaking and presentation skills, build your confidence, and establish rapport with the audience — all while practicing and delivering presentations in a safe environment with personalized feedback.
Public Speaking Training: Create Compelling Speeches & Presentations Benefits
Speak publicly in a convincing, confident, and concise style
Deliver dynamic and effective presentations
Create reference 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
Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching
Public Speaking Training Outline
Module 1: Creating Compelling Speeches
In this module, you will learn how to:
- Determine your baseline public speaking skills
- Tame fears and increase confidence through practice and preparation
- Integrate audience feedback to fine-tune your delivery
You will also learn how to use the five-step method for speech delivery
- Hooking the audience
- Identifying the critical need
- Presenting the key ideas concisely
- Explaining the payoff
- Calling for action
Module 2: Building an Effective Presentation
In this module, you will learn how to:
- Create a storyboard for your presentation
- Assess and address the needs of your audience
- Convert your ideas into clear, structured content
- Apply learning theory for optimal information transfer when shaping your presentation
- Employ the 7 +/- 2 short-term memory principle to maintain your audience’s attention
- Design effective presentation slides by simplifying complex data with visuals and graphics
Module 3: Engaging Your Audience
In this module, you will learn how to:
- Direct the audience's natural eye movement
- Move dynamically within the presentation space
- Engage the entire audience with effective eye contact
- Synchronize your gestures to the verbal message
- Animate your speech with vocal variety, pitch modulation, pauses, and silence
- Deliver memorable openings and closings
Module 4: Adding Interactivity to Your Presentations
In this module, you will learn how to:
- Engage your audience by stimulating participation with preplanned, topical, rhetorical, group, and targeted questions
- Handle questions from the audience with the reward, restate, and respond approach
- Keep your answers short and simple
- Get back on track after an unplanned interruption
- Manage the post-presentation Q&A session
Module 5: Rehearsing and Delivering Your Speech
In this module, you will learn how to:
- Build confidence with practice
- Incorporate audience feedback to improve your presentation
- Stay within your time limit
- Open your presentation dynamically to create a winning first impression
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