Public Speaking Workshop
This one-day course covers planning and delivering a talk or presentation. Coping with stage fright, techniques of speaking, handling difficulties, tips for success and use of visual aids. No computers are used but delegates are expected to deliver a 5 minute presentation on a subject of their choice near the end of the workshop.
Course Outline
- Benefits of presentations for speakers
- The objectives of communication
- Voice exercises to improve your vocal fitness
- Planning a presentation
- Considering the audience
- The structure - methods to impart the message
- Delivering a presentation
- Projecting your voice
- Improvising bits
- Body language
- How to cope with 'stage fright'
- Beginning and ending a presentation - tips for success
- Use of visual aids and where to look
- The techniques of speaking
- Question technique
- Handling difficulties
Who would benefit from the course?
Anyone who needs to speak in public and wishes to deliver an effective talk or presentation.
Pre-requisites
There are no pre-requisites for attending this workshop. Delegates will be asked to deliver a 5-minute talk near the end of the workshop, on a subject of their choice, and will receive comprehensive and helpful feedback. There will be an opportunity to re-work the talk during the day based on input from the course and is then delivered near the end of the workshop, when delegates are feeling more confident, as it also to gives them the opportunity to put in to practice what they have learned during the day.
