Course Description
WRITING AND PRESENTING SUCCESSFUL SPEECHES
We all know the waves of nerves that flutter around when we’re called on to speak for ourselves or our organisation in public.
It makes us wonder how others carry off this duty with apparent ease and calmness.
The answer lies in skill and preparedness because Public Speaking is an ability we can acquire for ourselves, whether as speakers or writing for others. This workshop is designed to meet that very need and to enhance your speech writing and presenting skills.
This course is a practical one-day seminar on the strategy and techniques required to write speeches successfully for delivery by yourself or others.
Participants are given a clear understanding of the intellectual and psychological processes involved in drafting a speech that is informative and entertaining and which will hold an audience’s attention to the end.
As part of the course you will undergo a practical session where you will have the chance to write and present speeches for yourself and others. Speech night nerves are natural, even for seasoned performers, but they can be calmed with the confidence that comes from the skill set and insight this seminar delivers.
On completion of this course you will:
- Understand how to write and/or present a speech with impact
- Understand the principles of successful speechwriting
- Understand the strategy required to write a speech for someone else
- Know the styles and approaches required for different audiences and events
- Know how to analyse your audience
- Understand the structure of a speech and how this can help you
- Know how the use of language can make a speech more interesting
- Understand how to use visual aids effectively
- Learn simple techniques to make your speech more interesting
- Know the value of nerves and how to control them
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Understand how to be your own best critic
Who should attend?
- Anyone who may have to write or present a speech in their business or personal life
- Corporate communications personnel
- Press officers or public relations executives
- Managing Directors or middle-senior management who write and deliver speeches
- Those who are nervous of public speaking and wish to improve
- Anyone who may have to write a speech to be delivered by someone else
- Sole traders who need the ability to draft and deliver successful speeches for business or personal reasons
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Testimonials
Outstanding. It has brought a greater clarity to making real improvements in my speech writing technique. Very well communicated...
Department of DefenceOutstanding. It has brought a greater clarity to making real improvements in my speech writing technique. Very well communicated and of great practical benefit. Department of Defence
Refreshingly frank approach to speech preparation. The emphasis on determining of speech objective was particularly useful. I would thoroughly recommend this course...
Department of the TaoiseachRefreshingly frank approach to speech preparation. The emphasis on determining objective of speech was particularly useful. I thought the course was very well structured to suit our specific needs within this department. I would thoroughly recommend this course. Department of the Taoiseach
Very interesting and informative day. Good balance between lecturing and practical work it will inspire me with confidence to face the next speech I have to draft...
Department of Trade Enterprise and IndustryThe course was informative and fast moving. There was a good balance between lecturing and practical work. Very enjoyable. Very interesting and informative day. Will inspire me with confidence to face the next speech I have to draft. DETI
Great course. It will definitely help me to prepare speeches more effectively and efficiently. One of the better courses I’ve attended – Interesting and TO THE POINT!
Great course. It will definitely help me to prepare speeches more effectively and efficiently. One of the better courses I’ve attended – Interesting and TO THE POINT! Department of Transport Tourism and Sport
Really enjoyed the course and felt it was very worthwhile. Learned a great deal about structuring speeches.
Department of Social ProtectionReally enjoyed the course and felt it was very worthwhile. Learned a great deal about structuring speeches. Department of Social Protection
If you depend on your voice for your job, then this course is a must. I learn't how to exploit the potential of my voice to help get my message across.
Department of Community, Rural and GaeltachtIf you depend on your voice for your job, as I do, then this course is a must. Learn how to care for and develop this most important of faculties so that it will always be at its best. I learn’t how to exploit the potential of my voice to help get my message across. Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht
The course is of enormous benefit to me in developing and defining my role in the press office. I particularly enjoyed the structural part and practical exercises...
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht AffairsThe course is of enormous benefit to me in developing and defining my role and duties in the press office. I thought it was most interesting and enjoyable. I particularly enjoyed the structural part and practical exercise. The notes were excellent. It was stimulating and very intense. A lot in it. Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
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