Power Speaking - 1 day course

The Workshop

This workshop teaches you how to prepare, plan and present all types of oral communication. You will learn to overcome weaknesses in your speaking and how to apply specific solutions to correct them.

The Agenda

Speaking skills
A guide to public speaking–what to do and what not to do. Learn how to prepare a talk that will ensure success. Learn how to overcome the 6 major speaking faults.

Beat the butterflies
Several methods to calm that knotted pre-speech feeling.

Exercises for your voice
Simple exercises to improve diction and to enable the person in the back row to hear you.

How to prepare a talk with impact
Learn the general principles of speech writing and the specific principles which make a good speech great. How do you prepare visuals?

Learn about...
Innovative beginnings
Impact laden endings
Non-boring middles
Use of humour

What to say
Learn how to decide what is required and what can be left out.
Easy steps to preparation.

Organising the information
Learn techniques that will help you organise your information to meet audience needs. Prepare easy-to-follow notes.

How to handle questions
Learn what to do when you cannot answer a question. Also learn how to handle difficult people. How can you tell when you have lost the audience?

What you need to know about the venue
What is available, how big is the room, is there a data show or LCD panel, is there a microphone and much more.
Prevent the possibility of disaster before it happens.

Be at ease when you speak

Really sell to your audience

Stay in control

Deliver with style

With the course you get a substantial manual with full text for all topics–enabling the manual to be used later as a reference. 

During the course you will get the chance to speak for comment and review.

Course topics are illustrated with real examples and interactive exercises.

The course is presented by Jill Nicholson