Public Speaking: Speaking Under Pressure Courseware and Training Materials

What's included?
What’s included?
Available for delivery as a download from our web server or provided on CD, this courseware package includes the following resources to make your trainer’s life much, much easier.

This courseware package includes:

	Student Manual. Fully customisable. May be opened in any wordprocessor and changed to meet your exact needs.
	Trainer manual. Fully customisable with additional information for trainers.
	Ice breakers and class activities. Fully customisable. Delivered as a folder full of activities for your students.
	Content overview. Fully customisable. Comprehensive course overview to help you market your course to your customers.
	PowerPoint presentations. Fully customisable. Complete set of PowerPoint slides for use by the trainer.
	Sales information sheets. Fully customisable. Information sheets to help you sell your course to your employees or external customers.
	Additional reading… Fully customisable. Give your students some recommended further reading materials for this course.

To get started, just open this ‘Public Speaking: Speaking Under Pressure’ training courseware in your favourite word processor. You can fully customise the materials to suit your exact learning needs and include your own branding. Your own tailor-made course, delivered ‘off-the-peg’ and saving you thousands of pounds in development time and man-hours. Just press print and the perfect learning experience is yours to deliver.

Course outline
Course outline

Introduction

Speaking Under Pressure addresses the worst fears about being on the spot or being put on the hot seat. This two-day workshop presents techniques to organize ideas in pressure situations or when no advance preparation time is available. The core of this workshop is in thinking strategies which guide our ability to analyze, organize, and present ideas.

Highlights of what participants will learn:

• Be able to think under pressure and assemble information quickly and logically for maximum impact;
• Be able to read and control an audience to deliver a clear and convincing message;
• Be able to identify the causes of nervousness and control it;
• Understand how to use key sentences and themes to help listeners understand them

Course contents

• Introduction and Course Overview You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
• Getting Started To begin, we will explore what Speaking Under Pressure is and an easy way to structure any presentation.
• Planning This session will offer participants seven easy ways to prepare for a presentation even if you don’t know the time, date, or topic.
• Force Field Analysis Next, participants will learn about a structured method of looking at two opposing forces acting on a situation.
• Understanding Your Audience During this session, we will explore a three-phase needs approach. Participants will also practice creating an audience profile.
• Controlling Your Jitters This session will focus on how to make the most of stage fright.
• Making Your Listener Hear You During this session, participants will explore what turns listeners on and off in a large group discussion. We will also take a brief look at non-verbal communication.
• Key Themes To wrap up the first day, participants will learn what a key theme is and how to create one and distill it into a key sentence. Participants will also be given a small homework assignment.
• Key Sentences To begin the second day, we’ll wrap up our discussion on key themes and participants will share their homework assignment.
• A Plan to Structure Ideas This session will focus on a three part plan (Aim, Concentrate, and Adapt) that participants can use to structure the body of their presentation.
• Organization Methods Next, participants will learn some different ways to organize the information in the body of their message.
• Our Body Language During this session, participants will take a close look at positive and negative body messages.
• If You Could Be To prepare for the major presentation later on in the workshop, participants will be asked to give a short presentation on this question: “If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one ability or quality, what would it be?“
• Beginnings and Endings This session will give participants some ways to create strong beginnings and endings.
• Expanding a Basic Plan So far, this workshop has focused on small presentations. This session will give participants some tips on fleshing out those small presentations should they be required to present something longer than just a few minutes.
• Presentations To conclude the workshop, participants will prepare and present a short five minute speech. Participants will also evaluate each other.
• Workshop Wrap-Up At the end of the day, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan

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