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Public Speaking: Conveying Your Message with Confidence

 
Course: 903   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Speak publicly in a convincing, confident and concise style
  • Identify and apply key skills of effective public speaking
  • Employ an effective five-step method to create materials that support a compelling speech
  • Keep the audience focused on you and your message
  • Design interactive questions to engage your audience
  • Sharpen your public speaking skills by preparing, rehearsing and integrating personalized feedback

Course Benefits

The ability to speak confidently and deliver a persuasive message is an essential skill for today's business professionals. This course provides the opportunity to significantly improve your public speaking skills by practicing and delivering speeches and presentations in a safe environment with personalized feedback.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who would like to improve his or her ability to speak in front of small and large groups with or without visual aids. Some knowledge of PowerPoint and prior public speaking experience are helpful.

Course Workshop

You gain practical experience developing and delivering multiple speeches and presentations. You learn to improve your skills by integrating peer feedback and practicing a variety of speaking techniques. Activities include:
  • Identifying key attributes of successful public speakers
  • Creating a personal speaking profile
  • Constructing an informative and persuasive talk
  • Emphasizing your points with effective body language, gestures and use of space
  • Improving vocal emphasis, modulation and pacing
  • Designing interaction into your speech
  • Rehearsing and delivering your presentation
  • Critiquing a video recording of yourself to improve your public speaking skills

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Jan 28 - 30, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Feb 4 - 6, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Feb 25 - 27, 2009
 Ottawa
Mar 4 - 6, 2009
 Toronto
Mar 11 - 13, 2009
 New York
Mar 18 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Apr 15 - 17, 2009
 Los Angeles
Apr 22 - 24, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
May 6 - 8, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
May 13 - 15, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
May 27 - 29, 2009
 Ottawa
Jun 3 - 5, 2009
 Toronto
Jun 17 - 19, 2009
 New York
Jun 24 - 26, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Jul 29 - 31, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)

For complete schedule, please visit www.learningtree.com
 
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Public Speaking: Conveying Your Message with Confidence

 
Course: 903   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 903 Content
 

Building Blocks of Effective Public Speaking

Recognizing key public speaking skills

  • Attributes of effective public speakers
  • Identifying components of persuasive speeches
  • Quantifying techniques used by accomplished speakers

Identifying your goal

  • Informing
  • Persuading
  • Motivating
  • Entertaining

The skill-building cycle: presenting, evaluating, improving

  • Determining your baseline public speaking skills
  • Taming fears and increasing confidence through practice and preparation
  • Leveraging your own personality and style
  • Increasing your awareness and abilities by evaluating other speakers
  • Integrating audience feedback to fine tune your delivery

Creating Compelling Speeches

Employing a proven 5-step method

  • Hooking the audience
  • Identifying the critical need
  • Presenting the key ideas concisely
  • Explaining the payoff
  • Calling for action

Constructing the presentation

  • Assessing and addressing the needs of your audience
  • Brainstorming and mind mapping your ideas
  • Researching and structuring your story
  • Shaping your sentences with powerful words and phrases
  • Matching the media to your message
  • Making your message memorable with visual support

Preparing effectively when time is short

  • Applying a simple structure for extemporaneous speeches
  • Tips and techniques to increase confidence

Engaging Your Audience

The speaker as a visual aid

  • Directing the audience's natural eye movement
  • Moving dynamically within the presentation space
  • The impact of positive body language
  • Engaging the entire audience with effective eye contact
  • Synchronizing gestures to the verbal message

Animating your speech with vocal variety

  • Adding pitch modulation and dynamics
  • Reinforcing points with pauses and silence
  • Reducing verbal distractors

Delivering memorable openings and closings

  • Five opening strategies to spark interest
  • Motivating the audience with a call to action

Interacting with Your Audience

Drawing in the audience

  • Stimulating participation with pre-planned questions
  • Conveying content through topical questions
  • When to ask rhetorical, group or targeted questions
  • Tailoring question types for your audience

Handling questions from the audience

  • Reward, restate and respond
  • Keeping your answers short and simple
  • Getting back on track after an unplanned interruption

Managing the post-talk Q&A session

  • Pre-empting "hot-button" questions
  • Staying aware of the message you are conveying
  • Priming the pump when there are no questions

Rehearsing and Delivering Your Speech

Building confidence with practice

  • Effective rehearsal techniques
  • Incorporating audience feedback to improve your presentation
  • Staying within your time limit

Delivering your presentation

  • Setting the stage
  • Opening dynamically and creating a winning first impression
  • Applying your public speaking toolkit
 
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Public Speaking: Conveying Your Message with Confidence Tuition

 
Course: 903   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,390 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,350 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,155 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,124 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)

Yours FREE To Take Home:

You receive a video recording of your presentations that will both illustrate your progress and serve as a valuable reference to review the skills you learned in the course.
 
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

Your Guarantee of Satisfaction

Unless you feel 100% satisfied that Learning Tree delivered even more than you expected, there is no fee for your course attendance. Our Guarantee of Quality lets you experience the value of the course--and then pay only if you feel the course was well worth the tuition.

Enrolling is Easy and Flexible!

Enroll by phone or online. If your plans change, just let us know and, without a fee, you can transfer to another course or cancel your enrollment. Pay after you've taken the course, and then only if you are 100% satisfied.
 
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