Empower your high-potential professionals and researchers to command any room with unwavering vocal authority.
Public speaking is often perceived as a high-stakes challenge that can trigger stress and deep-seated insecurities that are difficult to confront. However, mastering your delivery remains an essential exercise for career advancement, managing potential conflicts, and shaping your overall professional presence. This training is designed to demystify the exercise, providing emerging leaders with the technical tools to transform communication from a source of stress into a decisive leadership asset.
Investment & Alberta Corporate FundingProgram Rate: $7,500 CAD (Approx. $5,550 USD).
Investment & Alberta Corporate FundingProgram Rate: $7,500 CAD (Approx. $5,550 USD).
Duration
A comprehensive training course delivered over two days (consecutive or split) involving several critical development stages:
- The Concept of Public Speaking: Understanding what it involves, the specific circumstances where it applies, for whom, and for what purpose.
- Message Preparation: Content planning, audience identification, vocabulary selection, and structuring the intervention according to the specific context.
- Practical Exercises: Defining specific leadership objectives, addressing an audience effectively, and mastering the right pace and speech flow.
- Public Speaking Execution: Mastering the “dramaturgy” of speaking, demystifying the process, and applying anchoring and relaxation techniques to manage stress during high-stakes presentations.
Learning Objectives & Measurable KPIs
- Manage Stress Effectively: Identify and neutralize physical triggers of anxiety.
- KPI: Significant reduction in vocal tremors and heart rate stabilization during simulated pressure tests.
- Learn to Improvise Confidently: Build the capacity to respond to unexpected or challenging questions without losing authority.
- KPI: Successful management of 3+ conflict-inducing or complex Q&A interactions.
- Prepare a Public Speech Without Notes: Learn to deliver impact without relying on scripts or visual aids.
- KPI: Ability to deliver a 5-minute technical intervention with perfect flow and no external support.
- Structure for Impact: Make the speech accessible and clear while maintaining audience attention throughout.
- KPI: Measured increase in audience retention and immediate legitimacy scores.
- Establish Legitimacy: Ensure credibility in both substance and form.
- KPI: Mastery of non-verbal markers and technical resonance (verified by the final 15-page diagnostic).
Methodology
- Initial Baseline: Collect participants’ needs and conduct an initial camera session to collectively identify specific improvement areas for a given speech.
- Targeted Drills: Exercises focusing strictly on content, form, and delivery style.
- Rules of Engagement: In-depth analysis of various public speaking situations and their corresponding institutional or social dynamics.
- Practical Improvisation: Using specific lexical fields (positive or negative) to adapt to changing environments.
- High-Stakes Simulation: Facilitation of debates and handling questions on precise, controversial, or potentially conflict-inducing topics.
- Active Participation: Active engagement is strongly encouraged to ensure uniform progress and maximize the benefit of the training for all participants.
Do you want to learn more?
✓ Intensive training with extensive practice, either in group sessions or individually
✓ Comprehensive coverage of all key concepts necessary for successful public speaking
✓ Unlimited access to resources: deepen your skills with full access to e-learning videos and visual materials
✓ Introduction to a broader training program, which will also include in-depth work on voice and posture
