Public Speaking Training: Create Compelling Speeches & Presentations

In this Public Speaking & Presentation Skills training course, you learn how to strengthen your public speaking and presentation skills, build your confidence, and establish rapport with the audience — all while practicing and delivering presentations in a safe environment with personalized feedback.

Public Speaking Training: Create Compelling Speeches & Presentations Benefits

• Speak publicly in a convincing, confident, and concise style

• Deliver dynamic and effective presentations

• Create reference materials that support a compelling speech

• Build audience rapport through eye contact, vocal delivery, and body language
• Sharpen your public speaking skills by integrating feedback

• Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching

Public Speaking Training Outline

Module 1: Creating Compelling Speeches

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Determine your baseline public speaking skills
• Tame fears and increase confidence through practice and preparation
• Integrate audience feedback to fine-tune your delivery

You will also learn how to use the five-step method for speech delivery

• Hooking the audience
• Identifying the critical need
• Presenting the key ideas concisely
• Explaining the payoff
• Calling for action

Module 2: Building an Effective Presentation

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Create a storyboard for your presentation
• Assess and address the needs of your audience
• Convert your ideas into clear, structured content
• Apply learning theory for optimal information transfer when shaping your presentation
• Employ the 7 +/- 2 short-term memory principle to maintain your audience’s attention
• Design effective presentation slides by simplifying complex data with visuals and graphics

Module 3: Engaging Your Audience

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Direct the audience's natural eye movement
• Move dynamically within the presentation space
• Engage the entire audience with effective eye contact
• Synchronize your gestures to the verbal message
• Animate your speech with vocal variety, pitch modulation, pauses, and silence
• Deliver memorable openings and closings

Module 4: Adding Interactivity to Your Presentations

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Engage your audience by stimulating participation with preplanned, topical, rhetorical, group, and targeted questions
• Handle questions from the audience with the reward, restate, and respond approach
• Keep your answers short and simple
• Get back on track after an unplanned interruption
• Manage the post-presentation Q&A session

Module 5: Rehearsing and Delivering Your Speech

In this module, you will learn how to:

• Build confidence with practice
• Incorporate audience feedback to improve your presentation
• Stay within your time limit
• Open your presentation dynamically to create a winning first impression