Overview
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Learn what it takes to command a room. Get practical tips for exuding executive presence and confidence when speaking to audiences large and small.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Improve public speaking skills and achieve executive presence
- Theater techniques overview
- Being on your spine
- Eye contact
- Breathing from your diaphragm
- Making sound from your diaphragm while on your spine
- Make it a story
- Establish your relationship to each major thought in your presentation
- Practice as if you’re in the space
- Amplifying unheard voices
- The voice of men vs. women
- Set yourself up to succeed in imbalanced environments
- Advocate for yourself with fact-based wins
- Are you a good listener?
- Illustration exercise through dictation
- Listen to understand instead of learn
- Overview of qualifiers, fillers, and apologizers
- Qualifiers
- Fillers
- Apologizers
- Accents and English as a second language (ESL)
- Identify potential trouble spots in advance
- Get out that smartphone
- Leadership overview
- Work to attain a balance between warmth and strength
- Employ mindfulness
- Advocate for others
