Powerful Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Professionals

This highly participative and activity-based course provides you with opportunities to refine public speaking & presentation skills. Through hands-on in-session tasks, role-plays and simulations of real-word settings, mini case-study analyses and practical demonstrations of effective and ineffective practices, the course material is designed to help you develop a professional persona that exudes confidence, displays leadership potential and sets you apart from the crowd.

Learning Outcome:

Strategies and Tips to:

• Overcome nervousness
• Develop confidence in your abilities and self
• Use non-verbal cues appropriate to specific contexts to establish your credibility as a speaker
• Develop dynamic, expansive and open body language
• Improve your posture, gestures, facial expressions, movement and eye contact
• Use the best and most effective rhetorical strategies used by powerful professional speakers
• Refine your para-verbal cues (volume & rate of speech, word stress, rhythm & intonation)
• Use emphatic pausing and tonal variations
• Use voice projection exercises
• Use your voice to project confidence, command attention and connect with your audience
• Create & use unique hooks to grab your audience
• Attention at the beginning of your talk
• Engage your audience throughout your speech
• Use effective sign-posting and transitions
• End your speech with a bang
• Project energy, enthusiasm and eagerness
• Design and use visual aids that compliment & supplement your presentation / speech
• Learn how to avoid death by power-point

Please note: We provide tailored versions of our courses to cater to the specific needs of organisations. The pricing for customised courses may differ from that of our open-enrollment courses. For more details on pricing and instructor information, kindly reach out to us via email at ces@lums.edu.pk.