Course Code: PERDEV 121
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Effective Public Speaking
Course Sector:
Interpersonal Skills and Self Development
Course Dates and Locations
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No.
Date
Days
Location
Fees
Enrollment
01
29 Sep - 01 Oct 2025
3 Days
Istanbul, Turkey
$3,950
02
07 - 09 Dec 2025
3 Days
Murrakesh, Morocco
$3,250
Introduction
Training course introducion / brief

Public speaking can be a nerve-wracking experience for even the most confident communicators. However, an invitation to speak in front of a large audience whether within your own organisation, among industry peers or in an academic context provides an excellent opportunity to promote your department, your company or your own career. You may only have a short time to create the right impression, to present your ideas clearly and convincingly and to win over your audience so having the confidence and skill set to keep your audience gripped can make all the difference.

Public speaking skills

This training course is designed to help participants strengthen their public speaking skills, build confidence, and establish rapport with the audience — all while practicing and delivering presentations in a safe environment with personalized feedback. This will allow participants to apply effective public speaking skills, keep the audience focused on message and design interactive questions to engage audience.

Course Objectives
At the end of the training course, participants will be able to
  • Gain the skills and apply methods in creating materials that support a compelling speech
  • Speak publicly in a convincing, confident, and concise style 
  • Deliver dynamic and effective presentations
  • Build and maintain audience rapport through eye contact, vocal delivery, and body language 
  • Sharpen your public speaking skills by integrating feedback

Course Audience
Who is this course for, and can benefit the most
- Executive Secretaries
- Executive Personal Secretaries
- Personal Secretaries
- Executive Assistants
- Personal Assistants
- Office Managers
- Administration Managers
- Management Secretaries
- Senior Assistants
Course Outline
The course aims and learning outcomes
CREATING COMPELLING SPEECHES
EMPLOYING A PROVEN FIVE-STEP METHOD 

  • Hooking the audience
  • Identifying the critical need 
  • Presenting the key ideas concisely 
  • Explaining the payoff
  • Calling for action
IDENTIFYING YOUR GOAL
  • Informing
  • Persuading
  • Motivating
  • Entertaining
THE SKILL-BUILDING CYCLE 
  • Determining your baseline public speaking skills 
  • Taming fears and increasing confidence through practice and preparation 
  • Leveraging your own personality and style 
  • Increasing your awareness and abilities by evaluating other speakers 
  • Integrating audience feedback to fine-tune your delivery
BUILDING CONFIDENCE WITH PRACTICE 
  • Effective rehearsal techniques
  • Incorporating audience feedback to improve a presentation
  • Staying within your time limit
ENGAGING YOUR AUDIENCE
DELIVERING YOUR PRESENTATION

  • Opening dynamically to create a winning first impression 
  • Applying your public speaking toolkit
THE SPEAKER AS A VISUAL AID 
  • Directing the audience's natural eye movement 
  • Moving dynamically within the presentation space 
  • Engaging the entire audience with effective eye contact
  • Synchronizing gestures to the verbal message
ANIMATING YOUR SPEECH WITH VOCAL VARIETY 
  • Adding pitch modulation and dynamics 
  • Reinforcing points with pauses and silence
  • Reducing verbal distractors
DELIVERING MEMORABLE OPENINGS AND CLOSINGS 
  • Five opening strategies to spark interest 
  • Motivating the audience with a call to action
ADDING INTERACTIVITY TO YOUR PRESENTATIONS
DRAWING THE AUDIENCE 

  • Stimulating participation with preplanned questions 
  • Conveying content through topical questions 
  • When to ask rhetorical, group or targeted questions
HANDLING QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE 
  • Reward, restate and respond 
  • Keeping your answers short and simple
  • Getting back on track after an unplanned interruption
MANAGING THE POST-TALK Q&A SESSION 
  • Pre-empting "hot-button" questions 
  • Staying aware of the message you are conveying 
  • Priming the pump when there are no questions
Providers and Associations
Providing the best training services and benefits to our valued clients
Boost certificate of completion
BOOST's Professional Attendance Certificate “BPAC” is always given to the delegates after completing the training course, and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%, besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.
ENDORSED EDUCATION PROVIDER
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Flexible deadlines
Customized dates accordance to your schedule
Shareable Certificate
Earn certificate upon completion
COURSE METHODOLOGY

Our Training programs are implemented by combining the participants' academic knowledge and practical practice (30% theoretical / 70% practical activities).

At The end of the training program, Participants are involved in practical workshop to show their skills in applying what they were trained for. A detailed report is submitted to each participant and the training department in the organization on the results of the participant's performance and the return on training. Our programs focus on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.

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