Become a better presenter: improve your public speaking skills
Learn how to improve your presentation skills and add personality into your presentation style on this three-week course.
Improve your presentation skills and learn how to engage with your audience
Presenting to an audience, either online or in person, can be a daunting prospect, and requires specific skills in order to be successful.
It doesn’t matter what your level of experience is, this course will help build your confidence and give you the tools you need to improve your presenting style.
Whether you’re presenting to a formal meeting or speaking to 500 people from a stage, you’ll find out how to sharpen your presenting skills and pitch to whomever your audience may be, specifically through improvisation and storytelling.
What topics will you cover?
- How to identify your presenting strengths and weaknesses.
- How to add personality and life into your presenting style.
- How to engage with your audience whoever that may be from formal meetings to full-blown theatre shows.
- How to sharpen your presenting skills, specifically when it comes to improvisation, storytelling and weaving a narrative through your presentations.
- Activities that will allow you to put the theory you have learned into practice.
- What to do when things go wrong.
key takeaways
There is no faster way to alienate an audience than to make them feel that what you are talking about is not for them or is too complicated for them to engage with. so always aim to keep them on side. If you can, try to find out as much about your audience in advance as you can so you can pitch at the right level.
Taking a second to let your audience digest something or for you to think is a VERY effective technique and is frequently underused. This is mainly because lots of presenters understandably feel nervous leaving ‘dead air’ and feel they need to fill every second of time with words.
How are you going to get from A to B in this presentation. Using a narrative is incredibly helpful here as it not only adds some interest but it also helps you as the presenter to follow your train of thought.
Why we like it
- Gretchen lays everything out in a simple and straightforward way, helping you to get what you need from the course as you dip in and out.
- Knowing the tendencies of the people around you means better relationships with those people are possible, you can get them to take the free quiz and then use the course resources to build a better understanding of those around you.
- It's handy to have access to this so you can revisit whenever works best for you. We've come back to this years later and found new and interesting aspects added.