Getting Our Message Across Strategies for More Effective and Confident Public Speaking

Training Provided by Boston University Corporate Education Center Whether you re giving a project status report at a staff meeting, introducing your products and services to potential customers, speaking on a panel at a professional conference, toasting a colleague at an awards banquet, or delivering a keynote address to business and community leaders, this 2 day course will give you new confidence, strategies and practical tips for approaching the often dreaded public speaking assignment. It will cover both the cognitive side of presentations organizing your thoughts and information and the physical dimension enlisting your voice and other physical tools at your command--to engage your audience on an emotional as well as intellectual level, even with dry material. And if you have a case of the jitters (or worse) when asked to speak in public, it will help you put that nervous energy to use. Enrollment limited to 10 persons. NOTE: There's no substitute for practice! Participants will be expected to prepare a short talk on a topic of their choosing at the beginning of the second day.

Getting Our Message Across Strategies for More Effective and Confident Public Speaking

MDP249 - Getting Our Message Across: Strategies for More Effective and Confident Public Speaking

Course description
Whether you’re giving a project status report at a staff meeting, introducing your products and services to potential customers, speaking on a panel at a professional conference, toasting a colleague at an awards banquet, or delivering a keynote address to business and community leaders, this 2 day course will give you new confidence, strategies and practical tips for approaching the often dreaded public speaking assignment. It will cover both the cognitive side of presentations—organizing your thoughts and information—and the physical dimension—enlisting your voice and other physical tools at your command--to engage your audience on an emotional as well as intellectual level, even with “dry material.” And if you have a case of the “jitters” (or worse) when asked to speak in public, it will help you put that nervous energy to use. Enrollment limited to 10 persons. NOTE: There's no substitute for practice! Participants will be expected to prepare a short talk on a topic of their choosing at the beginning of the second day.

Who should attend
Managers and supervisors who are expected to speak at meetings; sales and marketing employees or consultants; technical specialists who make presentations to their colleagues as well as lay audiences, and basically anyone who wants to gain greater competence and confidence with business or technical presentations.

What you will learn

• Through discussion, demonstration, practice and video-taped coaching you will gain knowledge and practical tips for public speaking that you can put to use right away, including: A variety of ways to organize a presentation—to suit the audience, the setting and the subject matter


• The need—and your power--to enliven your message and engage your audience through your voice and gestures--


• How to put your nervousness to work for you—to “keep the butterflies in formation”


• Techniques and practice for writing for the ear rather than for the eye


• Strategies for the design and use of visual aids (especially PowerPoint)


• Techniques for managing Q and A, including “difficult questions” or audience members

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