The Public Speaking Course will cover...

• Developing confidence

  Strategies to project presence, power and charisma and move you from stage fright and going blank to owning the floor.

• Your personal pitch

  How to create rapport, warmth and trust when introducing yourself + useful and practical networking tips

• How to create an engaging opening

  If you can get the audience on side in the first couple of minutes you set up yourself up to speak directly into their hearts and minds.
  I will share my tried and tested opening formula that in my experience works every time.

• Interview techniques

  Tips and strategies to prepare for being interviewed for job interviews, by the media for print, TV and radio, and for being on a panel.
  – This is a great way to start your public speaking journey and can help raise your business and personal profile.

• Insights into the different learning preferences of an audience

  Understanding that not everyone thinks and learns like you, considering who your audience is, what they value and what motivates them will create rapport. For maximum appeal we will discuss the different learning preferences of an audience to be considered and included when preparing your presentation.

• Storytelling

  Fun practice exercises to help you tell a good story.
  Neuroscience tells us that our brains are more active when we hear stories because we are imagining ourselves as part of that story. Stories are a really powerful tool for recall and the ongoing sharing of your idea or information and should be worked into a presentation.

• Pulling your presentation together

  A practical exercise to get your ideas down on paper, ordered and edited.

• Getting Creative

  What can you add to really make your idea stand out, be memorable and sharable?
  Be inspired by information and analysis from what the highest viewed Ted Talks all have in common.

• Presenting Virtually

  Giving presentations on Zoom or Teams is very similar to presenting to camera where you have little or no audience feedback so we will do some practice exercises to get you prepared.

• Humour

  We all love to laugh, audiences included, so we will have some fun, learn how to not take ourselves too seriousl y and discover your more playful persona and how to work humour into a presentation.

• Outcome

  "My aim is to build your confidence, give you preparation strategies and presenting tools to be able to trust your intuition and really hit the mark with your presentations and resonate with your audience.”