Speaking To Success


Highly effective speakers inspire and influence people with their ideas... but their confidence comes from practice.

In this self paced series, you’ll find useful resources to develop your public speaking skills.

 
 

Speaking professionally in front of a room
of people can be intimidating.

  • Will your message stay on target?
  • Will your delivery make an impact?

This program will help you:

  • Develop your active listening
    Overcome presentation anxiety
  • Gauge the responses of your audience
  • Organize your ideas into an effective presentation
  • Improve your word choice, cadence, body language, and tone
  • Connect with your audience and adjust your delivery as you go

Public Speaking: The Struggle Is Real

This lesson focuses on anxiety and stress factors that can affect your delivery.

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Adapting to Stage Fright

In this lesson, we'll explore the natural signs of stress and a couple of strategies for overcoming anxiety.

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Using your voice

Your voice goes a long way to determine how you are perceived by others. This lesson shows how you can use your voice to convey a sense of authority, sympathy, passion, and more.

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Opening a presentation

In week 4 of speaking to success, we discuss why it's so important to hook the audience's attention at the beginning of your presentation, and provide tips to improve your openings.

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Why pausing, key words, and pacing matter

In Week 5 of Speaking to Success, we'll focus on ways to improve the delivery of your presentations through proper pacing.

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Being authentic in your presentation

In Week 6 of Speaking to Success, we'll build on what you did last week with key words, pauses, and pacing.

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Own the stage

In Week 7 of Speaking to Success, we'll focus on nonverbal cues we send as presenters and how we can capture the audience's attention by controlling those cues.

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Using stories

In Week 8 of Speaking to Success, we show how to create an engaging presentation through the use of stories.

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Surviving Q&A sessions

In Week 9 of Speaking to Success, we focus on how you establish credibility when answering audience questions.

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