INTRODUCTION
“The tongue can be sharper than a double-edged sword.”
- - James the Apostle -
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
Your ability to express yourself can be your plan of attack to stay on the cutting edge of your profession. Your tongue may be the sword to slay the dragons of fear, waste or mediocrity. Your speech may be the sword that leads your colleagues to the front lines of productivity, quality service and growth.
Nothing makes you more visible in the corporate world than the ability to express yourself and present your points before a group. This specially designed 2-day training helps develop and refine your public speaking and presentation skills, empowering you to use your competitive edge in expressing your intentions whenever the opportunity presents itself. By providing you with a rigorous training environment, your active participation in our program will enable you to apply and sustain your learning to a point of forming winning habits. You will have the power of public speaking and presentation skills that will support you to sway, motivate and captivate your audience.
STAGES: Speak & Present Like A Pro! focuses on the following areas:
Confidence
Connectivity
Content delivery
Content development
Context setting
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TRAINING OUTCOME
After completing the training, you should be able to:
Build winning relationships with your audience; employees, colleagues, customers and the public
Discover and model your public speaking style to others
Rediscover your passion of public speaking
Speak with confidence
Use various public speaking strategies to achieve any desired outcome
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
To change your direction, shift your thinking.
However long ago you learnt to ride a bicycle, it’s likely an experience you’ve never forgotten. The skill remains with you today. When was your last corporate training program? How much of what was learnt is actively applied in your business today? Are all that remains the workshop manuals left on your shelf?
Our programs are initiatives that last. They encourage new ways of thinking. They open up ways to create extraordinary achievements. We believe individual behavior and attitude contribute significantly to the overall excellence of your organization. So we focus on what really matters.
Our unique methodology of combining experiential, instructional and discovery learning, and supported by modern coaching technology, creates powerful shifts in attitudes and behavior that will encourage sustainable change in your organization. These changes make an impact on results where it matters.
In our programs, you can expect an extensive use of case studies, debriefing, dyads, facilitated coaching, feedback, games and activities, group discussions, lectures, psychodramas, simulations, story-telling and structured instruments.
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Our unique experiential framework and implementation empowers you to:
Achieve the spoken objectives effectively
Build and strengthen audience relations with professionalism
Communicate effectively
Create and develop winning relationships
Develop your personal unique public speaking style
Employ effective public speaking skills to different types of audiences
Identify origins of your public speaking behaviors and remove limiting beliefs about public speaking
Implement beliefs that build confidence in public speaking
Manage and maintain dynamic public speaking behaviors
Present the point persuasively
Speak publicly with certainty
Understand and employ the public speaking process effectively
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TRAINING OUTLINE
Our program outline encompasses the following modules:
Module 1: Overview
Context setting
Introduction to public speaking
TED Talk
Speed intro
Tragedy in the making
Module 2: Speaking With Absolute Confidence
Why it is impossible
Focus and the 2 rabbits
Stage time
“Hello!”
The see-saw principle
Module 3: Connecting With The Audience
Create an immersive experience
Images, music and games
The 7/38/55 Rule
Story telling
The I:You Ratio
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Module 4: Drafting A Good Speech
Begin with the end in mind
Rule of three
P.R.E.P.
The O.P.E.N.I.N.G.S. model
Rehearsing
Module 5: How To Be Interesting
Live an interesting life
The People List
Use analogies
Mindfulness
Create your treasure chests
Module 6: Applying Humor In A Serious Business-Driven Presentation
Don’t tell jokes
Use imbroglio stories
Emphasize the point
Get the star to be the star
What’s the complaint about
Module 7: Presentation Flight 1
Live demonstration
The Hot Seat
The role of the audience
The art of feedback
Objective and subjective review
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Module 8: Presentation Flight 2
Live demonstration
The Hot Seat
The role of the audience
The art of feedback
Objective and subjective review
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Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.