YOU have a lifetime of experiences and insights at your fingertips and you have a message to share. The challenge for all of us, novice and expert alike, is in working out how to effectively communicate our message to make the greatest impact on our audience.

How should I structure my speech in a way that is easy to understand?

How do I make it credible, logical, and emotionally charged?

And most importantly, how can I speak with confidence, sincerity, and enthusiasm?

This course will:

1. Illustrate the importance of knowing your objective, audience, and setting before beginning to put pencil to paper or fingers to keys.

   1. Know what you want from your audience

   2. Know what your audience wants from you

   3. Know where and when you will be presenting

2. Help you develop your thoughts, arrange them in a coherent fashion, and dress them in ways that appeal to your audience.

   1. How to visualize your key points

   2. How to simplify your structure

   3. How to leverage the power of stories

3. Cover ways of visualizing and memorizing your presentation through the use of storyboards.

   1. How to support your presentation with slides

   2. How to support your points visually

   3. How to recall your key points effectively

4. Look at ways of preparing you to put your best face forward when in the act of presenting.

   1. How to start and end your presentation

   2. How to use tone, pace, and volume

   3. How to control your non-verbal messages

The point of this course is to help you become more confident by becoming more prepared. To help you convey sincerity and feeling through your speech. And to make you aware of what might be distracting attention away from your message.

These lessons are meant to bring you up to speed as quickly as possible to get you up and running towards your speech.