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Business Presentation Delivery Skills
“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps, it that brilliant idea, proposal or point of view that you want your audience buy in to. Perhaps you have performed brilliantly at work, and you want your audience to agree.
These situations, and many like these, require you to possess the power of persuasive oratory; evolved public speaking skills, in other words.
Your body language, your voice, the visual aids you’ve designed, your ability to “work your audience” and your ability to manage stage fear must all come together if you are to effectively influence your audience. Shorn of these, your speech – irrespective of its contents – can end up being drab and unpersuasive.
You don’t want that.
This course, titled Business Presentation Delivery (Public Speaking) Skills, comprises six bite-sized lessons, with accompanying assessments. The lessons cover topics such as body language, voice modulation including speech ‘tools’, slide usage, managing your audience and dealing with stage fear. Each lesson requires you to set aside ten to twelve minutes, every alternate day, to complete
The course is intended to help you acquire the power – in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s words – to persuade, convert and compel.
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