Course Topics

  • An effective presentation has a clear, meaningful, and relevant message, is well structured and tells an entertaining story with an arc of suspense.
  • Dealing with speech nervousness: how to breathe easily and not sweat it!
  • Warming up your voice and expanding your lungs.
  • Overcoming rhetorical pitfalls such as speaking too fast or in too low of a voice. Eliminating ums & uhs, unnecessary filler words, and bla-bla-bla.
  • Speaking lively, not monotone: learning how to modulate your voice. 
  • Body language and stage presence, which show your confidence and competence. 
  • Creating effective visuals.
  • How to design, prepare, and practice a presentation.  
  • Psyching yourself up to perform, transforming your nervousness into enthusiasm and power for your talk, getting yourself into the moment, breaking the ice and making a convincing first impression. 
  • Managing interruptions, handling hecklers and rebutting killer-phrases.
  • Gaining mastery over yourself and the stage by hooking your audience, establishing rapport with them, and giving a gripping talk with rhetorical variety, which holds their interest.
  • Focusing yourself on your message. 
  • Presenting confidently in fluent English.