Public Speaking Training: Create Compelling Speeches & Presentations

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

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

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

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