PUBLIC SPEAKING
Public Speaker Training
Learn how to give confident and engaging keynote speeches and presentations.
Learn how to give confident and engaging keynote speeches and presentations
This half-day public speaking training course helps those who talk to an audience grow confidence, eloquence and impact
What you'll learn
Great orators know how to connect with their audience, read the room and hold it spellbound. We'll discuss what these speakers have in common, the techniques they use and how you can use your own personal style to emulate their success. From structuring your speech and finding the right pace to projecting your voice and overcoming your nerves, the trainer will take you through the steps to becoming a more powerful public speaker.
How you'll learn
Courses for individuals and or pairs take place at our central London training centres or your own offices. Delegates are taught by experienced coaches who analyse the style, structure, content and delivery of your presentation. Presentations are recorded for playback and the trainer uses constructive critique and, if necessary, demonstration to enhance your performance. After training, you'll receive full course notes by email and a link from which to download copies of your recordings. Each delegate also receives their own, personalised post-training evaluation report from the trainer, assessing their performance during the course and providing suggestions, exercises and tips for continuing to improve and develop.
Who this Public Speaking Training is for
This course is for you if you want to improve your delivery or overcome nerves when giving speeches or presenting at conferences, team meetings, pitches and events. You may want to follow this course with Panel Speaker Training which focuses on becoming an engaging participant at roundtables and panels.
If your focus is on interviews for the media, you may find our Studio Media Training or Bespoke Media Training courses helpful.
Course Modules
Public Speaking Training Theory
How great communicators use storytelling
Choosing your narrative structure
Conveying authority and self-assurance
Self-sabotage and managing the internal critic
Tips for virtual presenting
Practical exercises
Presentation 1, followed by trainer critique
Mark up your script
Sentence-by-sentence direction
Presentation 2, recorded, playback and critique
Breathing exercises for controlling nerves
What our students say
I honestly thought that the whole day was fabulous!!! You really couldn’t have done anymore for us. The combination of practical exercises and feedback was particularly useful, it was a challenging day (in a very good way) in that we really had to think, learn and adapt quickly. I know the team are significantly better prepared for media interviews after this training.
PA Media Training were efficient, well organised and genuinely lovely people to deal with and, importantly for us, able to provide flexibility around our needs to create the bespoke training we required. I wouldn’t hesitate to use them for further training or to recommend them to other organisations.
The training scenarios are as real to life as you could possibly get. They took considerable time to research our current plans and issues and used these to design a series of true to life radio and TV interviews. The team is outstanding, and their expertise and knowledge has been invaluable. Book them – you’ll be glad you did.
The team is flexible, slick, well-resourced and overall simply first class. Their expertise and knowledge have been invaluable. I was delighted with our choice, so I’d have no hesitation in recommending them
The lifelike interview settings and tasks that PA Media Training deal in replicate perfectly the real-world feel of a tough media interview and help the delegates come out of the day feeling much more confident that they can play an active role in representing their organisation.
What a great session we had on Communicating with Impact. Bridgid shared practical techniques to enhance and develop our communications skills so we can present and speak publicly or to senior stakeholders with confidence and impact. I speak for my whole team in highly recommending Bridgid Nzekwu if you are after effective and fun communication training.
Interested in this course?
Talk to the Press Association Academy team about dates, fees and bespoke options.