Public Speaking Boot Camp

Learning public speaking skills helps you build confidence, overcome communication anxiety, and master methods on how to present your thoughts clearly, so they have an impact on your listeners or audience. Good speakers have influence, and this is why we learn public speaking. In this three-day “boot camp,” you will learn to organize your ideas and polish your delivery skills as you begin to develop your own speaking style. You will make three prepared presentations in this course, and experience many opportunities to ‘speak on your feet’. You will learn how to tame your anxiety and use that adrenalin to your advantage. This course is appropriate for the novice as well as experienced and communicator.

Content

• Anxiety Is A Wild Horse – Tame The Horse, Don’t Shoot It!
• How Do You Make Your Presentation Meaningful To Your Audience?
• Organize Your Ideas And Thoughts So People Will Remember Them
• The Techniques Of The Greatest Speakers Of All Times
• “Fake It Until You Make It” And “Steal Until You Make Yourself Up” (Like Lincoln)
• The Mother Teresa Method Of Turning Negatives Into Positives
• The “Homeopathic Method” Of Curing Mistakes: Elvis Legs, Fidgeting
• What’s Your Style? You’ll Find It and Relax!
• Persuasion… Why It Is An Art And A Science?
• Speak On Your Feet… Learn Secrets of Successful Impromptu Speaking
• The Difference Between Pros And Amateurs -- Learn What the Pros do
• The Mesmerizing Magic of Metaphors, Word Pictures and Stories
• Using Metaphors to Cut the Understanding Time
• What REALLY Makes a Good Speech or Presentation?
• Why most people use PowerPoint wrong… and how to bring it alive
• Confidence does not arrive by FedEx!

Format

This program can be offered in a three-day program or a one-day program. Due to its highly interactive nature, we suggest that this workshop be limited to approximately 12 participants per session. The three-day workshop should be spread over time, so participants can prepare speeches. Workshop participants prepare and present one informative speech, one persuasive speech and two “impromptu” speeches after learning techniques of how to ‘speak on your feet.’