Speak your mind: polish your presentation skills

How to make great presentations and speeches

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Good presentations are a key to business success. Yet many people dread public speaking and do not know how to motivate and inspire their audiences.

This course will show you writing techniques that will help you to engage your audience and win hearts and minds, whether through speeches or PowerPoint presentations. And you will learn how to stand up and 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 
  • Setting the right tone
  • Telling memorable and powerful stories
  • Presenting facts with maximum impact
  • Using the great rhetoric toolkit: time-honoured persuasive techniques.

    Presenting with panache
  • Establishing and maintaining credibility
  • Delivering your message in a convincing way
  • Adding 'colour and movement' when delivering
  • 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 his or her audience.

This is a perfect pre-conference course for your team.



Top trainers team up to present course

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Chemene Sinson, leading trainer.
Because great presentations and speeches need to be skilfully written and delivered with confidence, Tony Spencer-Smith and highly skilled trainer, Chemene Sinson, have teamed up for the course Speak your mind: polish your presentation skills. 

Chemene Sinson  teaches techniques for effective speech delivery. An Olympian, she 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.

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 organisations including ASIC,  Hudson Recruitment, IBM and Microsoft. Tony is an award-winning novelist and former Editor-in-Chief of Reader's Digest.

Want to enrol for this course?

We can deliver this course in-house for your team. Just ring us on 02 4308-9152 to discuss your requirements.