Personal Development & Effective Public Speaking Skills – Virtual Meeting

Overview

If you are working in a place with a lot of pressure, then, you may be interested in this excellent two-day personal development training course.

After this course you will enjoy the benefits of using the Six Major Skills, namely:

• Goal achievement
• persuasive communication
• prioritization
• handling difficult conversations
• greater self-confidence and the ability to gain the cooperation of others.

You will find this course to be absolutely perfect to brush-up on your current knowledge and then go forward to learn terrific new material which you will have never seen before.

Public Speaking consistently ranks as people’s top fear (the number 2 fear is normally death, followed by spiders), additionally, an astounding 75% of people suffer from ‘speech anxiety’ – that’s 75%!

However, mastering this fear and getting comfortable speaking in public can be a great ego booster, not to mention a huge benefit to your career. This Public Speaking Training Course will provide you with valuable public speaking skills, including in-depth information on developing an engaging program and delivering your presentation with confidence and power.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will:

• Learn to analyze an audience & tailor the delivery accordingly
• Design presentations for maximum impact
• Learn to expand on key points to ensure clarity
• Master techniques to overcome nervousness & present with confidence
• Acquire techniques that ensure clear, concise & effective wording is used
• Learn to deliver a polished, professional & credible speech
• Learn to handle questions & comments effectively

COURSE CONTENT

DAY 1

Getting started with mastering public speaking

• How do you get the best from yourself and others?
• Develop the six key personal development skills
• How to develop goal focus
• The accurate use of language
• Distinguish the critic from the cynic
• Define your most important ideas
• How to handle difficult people
• Objective language
• Prepare your message in advance
• Separate reasons from excuses
• When to compromise and when not to
• Time management training
• Understanding ‘deadline pressure’ and ‘value’
• Distinguish between being ‘busy’ and being ‘productive’
• Prioritise work according to its value and deadline pressure
• Handling interruptions and distractions

Day 2

Audience and Self-management

• Identifying your Audience
• Performing a needs analysis
• Creating an audience profile
• Identifying key questions and concerns
• Being Prepared
• Checking out the venue
• Gathering materials
• A 24 Hour checklist
• Creating a Basic Outline
• Outlining the situation
• Identifying the task that had to be performed
• Listing the actions you took
• Revealing the results
• Overcoming Nervousness
• A word from the boss
• Preparing mentally
• Physical relaxation techniques
• Appearing confident in front of the crowd
• Organizing the Program
• Making organization easy
• Organizational methods
• Classifying and categorizing
• Delivering your Speech – Part One
• Starting off on the right foot
• Using visual aids

Day3

Being at your very best

• • Checking the volume of your voice
  • Fleshing it Out
  • Identifying appropriate sources
  • Establishing credibility
  • The importance of citations
  • Delivering your Speech – Part Two
  • Adjusting on the Fly
  • Gaging whether breaks are Required
  • Wrapping up and Winding Down
  • Putting it all Together
  • Writing your presentation
  • Adding a Plan B
  • Reviewing, editing and Re-writing
  • Questions and Answers
  • Ground rules
  • Answering questions that sound like an attack
  • Dealing with complex questions