Public Speaking Training

Public Speaking Training Learning Objectives:

• 1. Establish rapport with your audience
• 2. Learn Public Speaking techniques to reduce nervousness and fear
• 3. Understand your Public Speaking strengths as a presenter and how to appeal to different types of people
• 4. Recognize how visual aids can create impact and attention in Public Speaking
• 5. Develop Public Speaking techniques to create a professional presence
• 6. Learn some different ways to prepare and organize information
• 7. Prepare, practice, and deliver a short presentation

An example of the Public Speaking Course is illustrated below:

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Public Speaking - Course Overview

YYou will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their learning objectives.

Public Speaking Communication

To begin, participants will explore key communication skills, including how to start and end a conversation/presentation; how to build on familiar skills/knowledge/experience that they already have; and how to plan conversations/presentations.

Public Speaking Tone

Next, participants will learn about characteristics that can make or break the audience’s impression of a speaker, including speech volume, pitch, rate, pronunciation, articulation, clichés, slang, diction, jargon, and tact (or lack thereof).

Public Speaking Types

During this session, participants will explore their personality type and what it means for them as a speaker.

Positive Self-Talk for Public Speaking

In this session, participants will learn how to build their self-confidence – a key skill for any public speaker.

Trust in Public Speaking

This session will explore the idea of rapport and how it can help build relationships.

Maximizing the Most of Meetings

Meetings are a central part of communication and cooperation within any organization. This session will give participants some ways to successfully prepare for and present at any meeting.

Body Language in Public Speaking

During this session, participants will learn some ways to make sure their body language (e.g. facial expressions, eye contact, general body movements, etc.) is sending the right message and how to make audiences feel that the presenter genuinely seeks to connect with them.

Sticky Situations in Public Speaking

This session will give participants some tools to deal with uncomfortable situations, how not to appear defensive/rude when snide remarks are made or meaningless questions are posed.

Public Speaking vs Other Communication Methods

Next, participants will explore the value of oral presentations.

Nervousness and Public Speaking

To conclude the first day, we will look at some suggestions for handling nervousness, especially how seasoned public speakers make their nervousness work for them, rather than against them.

The Five S’s in Public Speaking

To begin the second day, participants will learn about the five S’s of a good presentation: significance, scenario, solutions, sequelae, and suggestions.

Start Writing!

This session will focus on the nuts and bolts of creating your presentation: how the basics of writing must be adhered to for a better flow of ideas in your presentation.

Audience Profiles and Personas

Next, participants will look at the value of audience profiles/analysis: how to look around for hints on the audience: age group, gender, status in society (titles are a great giveaway), political affiliations, ethnicity, etc. as this can tell them what should or should not be included in their presentations.

Your Speaking Voice

This session will look at the eight key parts of a presenter’s message.

Add Punch to Your Presentation

There are many types of presentation/visual aids that can help the audience understand and remember key points of presentations, realize relationships between concepts/points, or even evaluate complex ideas and data more quickly. We will provide an overview of, and tips for, the most common visuals during this session.

Your Presentation

To wrap things up, participants will prepare and present a short presentation. Participants will evaluate each other and provide constructive feedback.

Workshop Wrap-Up

At the end of the workshop, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and prepare an action plan.