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The course develops through four themes: mastering fear, developing a creative formula, using verbal and body language, and anticipating the room, to help you discover your personal power as a speaker and give excellent presentations.
Syllabus :
1. Getting Started with Public Speaking
- Effective Communication
- Understanding Fear
- The Code Rule: Survival Reactions
- The Paradox of Public Speaking
- We've All Felt Fear
- Successful Presentation is Storytelling
- Stories and Storytellers
- Performance
2. A Formula For Successful Presentation
- The Basic Formula
- The Secret Ingredient: Creativity
- What Is Creativity?
- The Central Importance of the Introduction
- The Introduction: The Salutation
- The Review of the Structure
- The One Compelling Point
- Intro: The Modular Content Unit
- Pushing Each Unit (Thinking in Circles)
- Building Transitions
- How Do You Push Yourself?
- The Conclusion
- The Entire Talk Is a Circle
3. Practicing Your Self
- Dynamic vs. Static (Getting into Your Brand)
- You Are Your Own Harshest Critic
- The Reverse Outline
- Rehearsing the Introduction
- Passion in a Bottle
- Hearing Your Language
- Marking Your Script
- Recognizing Your Body
- Using Your Body
- The Importance of Stance
4. Engaging with the World
- Anticipating the Field of Play
- A Chaucerian Interlude
- Attending to Your Audience
- Slides vs Handouts
- What Is a Question?
- Being Soft
- Avery's Demo Presentation: "Frankenstein and Science"
- Building a Public Portfolio from the Private Self
- The Paradox of the Public Self
- Effective Communication
