The Public Speaking Course in More Detail

This public speaking course is all about equipping you with essential tools and techniques that you can put into action straight away. This class is practical, fun and taught by professional communicators from stage and screen. People who have been there and done it, a thousand times before. Most of all, this course is about building your confidence. Slowly but surely allowing you to overcome your fear of public speaking, so that you are never held back by it again.

The ability to confidently and engagingly speak in public is a huge asset in any career and in anyone’s life. You’ll leave with this invaluable gift and be able to communicate with a group of strangers as easily and naturally as you do with your family and friends.

You’ll leave our courses with a tonne more confidence, new skills, and huge self-awareness of what your strengths are when you speak.

Here is a more detailed breakdown of what you’ll learn on our public speaking courses:

Week 1: How to Overcome Your Nerves

This first public speaking class is all about helping you get a grip of the anxiety that can block your flow. How do we do this? Firstly, by getting you out of your head and into the moment through the power of play. Secondly, by changing your attitude to mistakes so you drop the perfectionism which amplifies your inner critic. And thirdly, by reminding you that you’ve got many of the answers already. We do this by showing you how some simple tweaks to how you frame speaking can immediately unlock your most fluent, confident, and engaging self.

The key-takeaways for week 1 include:

Treating mistakes not as show-stopping disasters, but as a way we can establish connection and trust with our audience.
Techniques for preparing and rehearsing for your speech, to ensure you are in the most confident mindset possible.
How to reduce your self-judgement and re-connect to a flow state.

Week 2: How to Own the Room

This second public speaking class is all about how to gain the trust of the audience. Fundamentally, while our content needs to be credible, if the way we deliver that message when we speak is not congruent with this content it will not land with the audience. So, this workshop is all about the role of body language and voice in presenting.

The key-takeaways for week 2 include:

A ‘Body Talk’ audit: gaining self-awareness of your non-verbal communication and the impact of these habits on your public speaking impact.
What confident body language looks like and how you can use it to project authority to an audience.
How to use your voice to project light and shade, energy and authority, passion and presence in your public speaking. Using the 3Ps: pace, pause, and prosody.

Week 3: How to Make Your Point

In this public speaking class, you’ll explore how to structure your presentations and speeches to make them as clear and impactful as possible. You’ll also learn the importance of signposting to guide your audience effortlessly through your ideas. Plus, we’ll look at the art of the edit: what to cut from your presentation to aid clarity and memorability.

The key-takeaways for week 3 include:

Get 3 different options for structuring your content. So that you can keep a coherent and easy-to-access narrative running through your presentation.
The one big mistake everyone makes when they prepare their presentation – and what you can do instead.
The Impact Audit: how to test your presentation’s clarity and impact before you deliver it, to ensure your key point lands.

Week 4: How to Tell Great Stories

This public speaking class explores the art of storytelling. This is all about hooking and holding an audience’s attention through the power of narrative. And also studying wider storytelling techniques – such as anecdote, metaphor, and imagery – to bring your message to life and make it stick with your audience. As the ancient Greeks taught us: great public speaking is about balancing head with heart, the logical with the emotional, and compelling data with a moving story. In this class you’ll look at how you can make your audience care.

The key-takeaways for week 4 include:

The simple shape of all well-told stories and the key ingredients they include.
How to use structure to create narrative tension so the audience wants to know: ‘what happens next?’
Different techniques to present complex information in an interesting and easy-to-digest way (such as explaining technical content to non-technical audiences.) Including using ’empathy maps,’ ‘weekend language,’ and finding your own emotional connection to your content, so you can access your authentic energy and passion.

Week 5: How to Start and End with a Bang

In this public speaking class, you will experiment with different ways to start and end your speech so that you can capture your audience’s attention from the first word – and have them remember your last one. You’ll also explore different forms of evidence you might include in a presentation to help you build a persuasive case while avoiding death by data.

The key-takeaways for week 5 include:

Different techniques for ‘hot starts’ and impactful endings so you’re prepared for any sort of audience.
How to involve your audience in your speech with practical audience interaction techniques.
Why ‘moments are messages’: creating memorable moments in presentations to have your message stand out.

Week 6: Impromptu Speaking

A huge amount of the speaking we do in our lives is spontaneous and unprepared. Perhaps you’re asked to give a team update in a meeting, or you’re asked a question at the end of a presentation, or someone turns to you at a birthday party and says, ‘Do you think you could say a few words?’ How do you thrive in these scenarios? This public speaking class is all about thinking (and speaking!) on your feet, so you be articulate under pressure. Including lots of practice in exercises that simulate real life impromptu speaking situations, so you can build your confidence and adaptability.

The key-takeaways for week 6 include:

Structured spontaneity: useful frameworks to organise your thoughts quickly and deliver impactful in the moment responses.
Keeping calm in difficult or unexpected situations when you are presenting, including how to handle difficult questions.
Finding the fun: how to balance the serious and the playful in your public speaking – including bringing more of your personality into speeches and presentations.

End your public speaking anxiety forever

Build confidence through public speaking reps.

Enjoy the process via our fun gamified approach.

Get lots of personal feedback from an experience coach.

Layer on different skills each week.

So that you…

Never turn down a speaking opportunity because of nerves.

Become more visible in your company and your industry.

Feel ready when put on the spot in high stakes meetings.

Sound natural, conversational, and relaxed when you speak.

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Speakers Club for Business

We offer private, customized, internal public speaking courses and classes for teams looking to build their skills and confidence. With flexible dates and times, we’ll work with you to create a bespoke presentation skills class that works for your employees and builds a storytelling culture in your business.

Email us at [email protected] to learn more.