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Public Speaking: Speaking Under Pressure

$199.00

Level 2 | Duration: 4 Hours

This course will take you through preparing an effective presentation. Topics include planning your speech, identifying your audience, connecting with the listener, developing key themes and sentences, structuring your ideas, and managing nervousness and body language. You’ll focus on short responses and learn ways to expand a basic presentation.

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This course has been designed for those in positions where they must speak in front of audiences that are hostile or demanding. This material is also suitable for those who are relatively new speakers and want some encouragement on speaking up in meetings, or who want some training before they begin making presentations on behalf of the organisation.

Speaking under pressure, or thinking on your feet, means being able to quickly organise your thoughts and ideas, and then being able to convey them meaningfully to your audience to modify their attitudes or behaviour. It applies to formal speeches as well as everyday business situations.

It requires the presence of mind, goal orientation, adaptation, and judgment. It also requires differentiating between oral and written communications.

This course is aimed at improving your skills and learning new techniques that will give you the persuasive edge when you are making a presentation, fielding difficult questions, or presenting complex information.

Learning Objectives

  • Apply quick and easy preparation methods that will work whether you have one minute or one week to prepare.
  • Prepare for questions, even before you know what those questions will be.
  • Overcome any nervousness you may feel when speaking in front of a group, particularly if the group is not sympathetic to what you have to say.
  • Use presentation techniques that establish your credibility and get people on your side.
Session Outline

1. Course Overview
2. Getting Started
3. Planning
4. Force Field Analysis
5. Understanding Your Audience
6. Controlling Your Jitters
7. Making Your Listener Hear You
8. Key Themes
9. Key Sentences
10. Structuring Ideas
11. Organisation Methods
12. Our Body Language
13. If You Could Be…
14. Beginnings and Endings
15. Expanding a Basic Plan
16. Presentations
17. Personal Action Plan
18. Recommended Reading List
19. Post-Course Assessment

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