Speak your mind: advanced presentation skills

Making great speeches and presentations is a key to business success. Yet many people are nervous about public speaking and do not know how to connect with, motivate and inspire their audiences. This course will show you how to write a superb speech or presentation that wins the hearts and minds of your audience, and then train you in the techniques that will enable you to deliver your message with flair and confidence.

What you will learn

Writing a great speech or presentation
  • Mastering the key principles of effective speeches
  • Structuring your material effectively
  • Tailoring your message to your audience and setting the right tone
  • Presenting facts with maximum impact
  • Using the great rhetoric toolkit: time-honoured persuasive techniques
  • Paiting word pictures and using the power of storytelling
 
Presenting with panache
  • Establishing and maintaining credibility
  • Delivering your message in a convincing way
  • Adding 'colour and movement' when delivering
  • Removing distractions: identifying and managing distracting habits
  • Overcoming anxiety.

Who should attend this course?
Executives who want to make powerful presentations. Leaders who want to motivate and inspire. Anyone faced with the challenge of making a speech or presentation that hits the right note and connects with the audience.

Top trainers team up to present course

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Chemene Sinson, leading trainer.
Because great presentations and speeches need to be both skilfully written and delivered with flair, Tony Spencer-Smith and Chemene Sinson have teamed up to deliver Speak your mind: advanced presentation skills. 

Chemene Sinson  teaches techniques for effective speech delivery. An Olympian, Chemene presents at sporting events (Olympic and Commonwealth Games) and at corporate functions. She coaches elite sportspeople, corporate, government and community-based clients in media and presentation skills. Her clients include the Australian Institute of Management, Rugby Union Players Association, Australian Cricketers' Association, Australian Paralympic Committee and NSW Institute of Sport.

Speechwriting expert

Tony Spencer-Smith, a highly experienced business writing trainer, teaches the key techniques of crafting successful speeches and presentations. He has written speeches for CEOs and senior executives of top organisations including ASIC, COAG Reform Council, Hudson Recruitment, IBM and Microsoft. Tony is also an award-winning novelist and former Editor-in-Chief of Reader's Digest.