Own Your Voice: Improve Presentations and Executive Presence

Course details

The ability to deliver a powerhouse presentation isn't reserved for a gifted few. With enough practice, anyone can learn how to express themselves with confidence. In this course, join communication coach Jackie Miller as she shares practical tips for exuding executive presence and poise when speaking to audiences large and small. Explore different communication styles (and how to embrace your own). Get theater-based techniques for improving eye contact and harnessing the power of breath. Plus, learn best practices for amplifying voices that may otherwise go unheard; ridding your speech of qualifiers, fillers, and apologies; communicating effectively when English isn’t your first language; and more.

Learning objectives
Common communication styles
Theater-based public speaking techniques
Telling compelling stories
Succeeding in imbalanced environments
Active listening
Communicating as a non-native English speaker
Speaking with warmth and strength

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Improve public speaking skills and achieve executive presence

1. Actionable Theater Techniques

02 - Theater techniques overview
03 - Being on your spine
04 - Eye contact
05 - Breathing from your diaphragm
06 - Making sound from your diaphragm while on your spine

2. Best Practices for Public Speaking and Formal Presenting

07 - Make it a story
08 - Establish your relationship to each major thought in your presentation
09 - Practice as if you re in the space

3. Amplifying Unheard Voices

10 - Amplifying unheard voices
11 - The voice of men vs. women
12 - Set yourself up to succeed in imbalanced environments
13 - Advocate for yourself with fact-based wins

4. Active Listening

14 - Are you a good listener
15 - Illustration exercise through dictation
16 - Listen to understand instead of learn

5. Qualifiers, Fillers, and Apologizers

17 - Overview of qualifiers, fillers, and apologizers
18 - Qualifiers
19 - Fillers
20 - Apologizers

6. Communicating with Accents or When English Is Your Second Language

21 - Accents and English as a second language (ESL)
22 - Identify potential trouble spots in advance
23 - Get out that smartphone

7. Leadership

24 - Leadership overview
25 - Work to attain a balance between warmth and strength
26 - Employ mindfulness
27 - Advocate for others