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 ‘SpeakEasy: Conquering Your Fear of Speaking in Public’ 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

Do participants get nervous when presenting at company meetings? Do they find it hard to make conversation at gatherings and social events? Do they lock up in awkward social situations? If so, this one-day workshop is just for them! It’s aimed at anybody who wants to improve their speaking skills in informal situations. We’ll give participants the confidence and the skills to interact with others and to speak in informal situations and in front of small groups.

Highlights of what participants will learn:

• To enhance the ability to speak one-on-one with others;
• To develop the confidence to feel at ease, speaking socially or small groups such as meetings;
• To practice developing these skills in a safe and supportive setting

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.
• Good Communication Skills To begin, participants will share communication opportunities that they feel they have missed in the past few weeks. Then, participants will explore barriers to communication and possible solutions.
• Interpersonal Skills This session will look at two key interpersonal skills: asking questions and listening.
• Self-Disclosure During this session, participants will learn about self-disclosure using the Johari Windows concept.
• The Art of Conversation Next, participants will learn about and practice the four levels of conversation.
• Practicing Dialogue This session will wrap up everything participants have learned so far into one exercise.
• Re-Designing Yourself for Strength During this session, participants will learn about the seven components of a good speaker.
• Professionalism This session will focus on presenting a professional image.
• Maximizing Meetings Next, participants will discuss fifteen ways to make the most of meetings.
• Sticky Situations This session will give participants an opportunity to identify situations that they have difficulty with, and to brainstorm some solutions.
• Controlling Nervousness During this session, participants will learn some ways to control physical and mental nervousness.
• Tell Me a Story To wrap up the day, participants will make a small, impromptu presentation.
• 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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