Public Speaking for Success

To sign up for this course, there is no need for prior experience of public speaking. This course would be perfect for any candidate who needs to brush up on their public speaking skills – either for a current job role where it’s needed to move forward along their career path, or as an essential skill required for an aspirational job role.

• Recognise some of the fears associated with public speaking, and learn how you can begin to overcome them.
• Define the purpose of a speech by analysing the objectives and how they can be achieved.
• Understand the reason why structure is essential, and get to grips with the three-part structure - the beginning, the middle and the end – and how these parts can be optimised.
• Learn how to create a speech, including the importance of revision, research and purpose.
• Understand what signposting is, including explicit and implicit signposting, and why signposting speeches is required.
• Learn more about language, vocabulary and humour that can be used to make a speech and how to create speaking notes and mind maps to help with the flow of a presentation.
• Gain insight into how technology can be used in public speaking, including the use of tablets and reasons why PowerPoint presentations can fail.
• Understand the importance of appearance, and how a speaker’s dress, and stance, can affect the audience’s perception and first impressions.
• Learn how to use the body, including gestures and eye contact, as well as the voice, including pronunciation, pitch, pace and pause, to optimise how a speech is received.
• Get to grips with how to build a rapport with the audience, and the dynamics of speech vs. conversation.
• Learn about impromptu speaking and how it can be approached, including how being put on the spot needn’t be a cause for anxiety.
• Use your new public speaking skills to effectively prepare, run and participate in meetings.