Command Your Audience: Become a Competent Speaker

Public Speaking is one of the word's greatest fears. The majority of people use the following strategy: avoidance... This is unfortunate because overcoming our fears is one of the greatest things we can do to increase our feelings of self worth and confidence.

We provide a nurturing environment in which to cultivate the amazing speaker that lies within each and everyone of us. We use techniques such as NLP to make the process as far from traumatic as possible. Indeed, our courses are fun and progressive and provide the ideal environement to produce award winning speakers.

We will be holding a 10 week course in ‘Competent Speaking’ from 5^th February 2009- 9^th April 2009 at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Oxford Circus.

Arrival time: 18.30

Start time:   19.00

Finish time:  21.00

Each session will begin at 7pm sharp and finish at 9pm.

The organisation of each session will vary slightly, but everyone will have the opportunity to stand up and speak at least once each session. We will instruct you on how to prepare and deliver speeches and also on how to stand up and make an impromptu speech with no preparation time.

The following areas will also be covered:

• Strategies to help you overcome nerves and make you feel really confident
• Relaxation techniques
• Warming up your voice
• Voice Projection
• Planning your speech
• Writing your speech
• Structural Strategies
• Fulfilling Audience Needs
• Ice Breakers/ Anecdotes
• Energise/ Inspire/ Persuade your audience
• Effective Delivery
• Speaking without notes

There are a limited number of spaces on this course, so please register as soon as possible or by Friday 18^th January at the latest.