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Public Speaking Training: Create Compelling Speeches & Presentations
Course 903
3 DAY COURSE

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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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Attendance Method

How will you be attending the class?

Selecting 'Live Virtual' allows you to attend remotely from work or home. You will receive email communication well before the class starts with detailed instructions on how to validate your equipment and connect to the classroom for a quality learning experience.

Additional Details (optional)

Private Team Training

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