A Step by Step Approach to Improve Public Speaking Skills
From a one-sentence description about your company - to a full-length sales presentation - your professional impression depends on your speaking ability. A strong, effective speech requires: preparation, practice and evaluation...
Preparation is planning, writing and revising to show your personality, to demonstrate your knowledge and to meet your goals. Presenting ideas in a clear and under¬standable way varies with the speech. Participants will learn how to organize a speech and how to make it flow from start to finish.
Practice is editing, refining and applying skills: to produce a smooth and natural speech. Many well researched and written presen¬tations are not successful because the speaker did not practice. Participants will learn and practice different techniques to use when practicing.
Evaluation is the review of a speech: to understand strengths and to find areas for improvement. Using the speech produced during the seminar, participants will be taped and evaluated by the seminar leader and other participants.
Benefits
Learn to control speaking by understanding how to prepare, practice and evaluate a speech.
Who Should Attend
Anyone who wants or needs to improve their presentation skills
Recommended for speakers at intermediate or upper intermediate level
Seminar Details
Day 1 - Preparation
Opening
With only 20 to 60 seconds to get and keep an audience’s attention, the opening of a speech or presentation is extremely important. Participants will gain experience in finding the right way to open using quotations, questions, stories, or useful information.
Closing
Leaving an audience with something to think about or a call to action will leave a positive impression. Working with different ideas, you will learn how to finish what you have said.
Body
Presenting ideas clearly depends on the speech. Participants will learn how to organize a speech and how to make it flow from start to finish and through each point.
Day 2 - Practice
Practice
Many well researched and written presentations are not successful as the speaker did not practice. Participants will learn and practice different techniques to use when practicing.
Body Language and Gestures
Audiences remember more about how you say something. Participants will learn natural gestures that add to, not take from a speech.
Day 3 - Speaking
Practice
Using the speech produced during the earlier parts of the seminar, participants will be evaluated by the seminar leader and other participants.