Effective Executive Speaking

Take your public speaking to the next level. Speak, present, and communicate with poise, power, and persuasion.

From boardroom presentations to keynote addresses, your effectiveness as a leader and the long-term trajectory of your career are deeply connected to your ability to stand before an audience, command attention, and deliver communication that is both credible and compelling. Every presentation is an opportunity to shape thinking, build relationships, and advance your ideas.

This seminar helps you conquer fear, connect authentically with your audience, and take full ownership of the room. You will bring your own energy, style, and personality to every speaking opportunity, build lasting confidence through guided practice and real-time feedback, and learn how to turn any presentation into an experience that achieves its intended purpose.

Who Should Attend:

This seminar is designed for executives and experienced professionals with prior public speaking experience who must regularly speak in front of groups, deliver high-stakes presentations, sell ideas to decision-makers, or represent themselves or their organizations on camera or in front of a microphone.

How You Will Benefit

• Think and speak with greater clarity, precision, and purpose, consistently emphasizing what matters most
• Face any audience or camera with confidence and composure while making the most of your natural speaking style
• Craft and organize presentations that persuade your listeners and drive the specific response you are seeking
• Conquer the fear of public speaking and replace negative performance anxiety with productive preparation energy
• Let your performance skills, sense of humor, and authentic personality work as assets in every presentation
• Deliver both impromptu remarks and carefully prepared presentations with genuine skill and receive personalized coaching feedback

What You Will Cover

Fundamentals of Executive Speaking Skills

• Identify the elements of a truly great presentation
• Create an individualized speaking profile that captures your current strengths and specific growth areas
• Set personal goals for ongoing public speaking development

Preparation

• Understand the critical role of research and structured organization in an effective presentation
• Plan and build powerful openings and memorable closings for your presentations
• Select and design visual aids that enhance rather than distract from your core message

Delivery Skills

• Apply the effective use of voice, movement, image, and language in live speaking situations
• Develop and apply strategies for addressing performance anxiety positively
• Practice and refine articulation techniques for greater clarity and impact

Winning Presentations for Any Occasion

• Reach reluctant, uncommitted, or disengaged audiences with targeted strategies
• Design informative, persuasive, motivating, and special event presentations that achieve their specific goals
• Respond to questions in a focused, controlled, and professional manner
• Deliver compelling impromptu remarks when called upon without preparation

Special Feature:

Video Recording. Please bring your preferred recording device (mobile phone or tablet) with available storage space to class. Reviewing your recordings is one of the fastest and most effective ways to get honest feedback. You will be able to see yourself improve, relax, and refine your technique with each performance.

Course Outline

Learning Objectives

• Think and speak with greater clarity and purpose, consistently emphasizing key ideas
• Face any audience or camera with confidence and composure
• Shape and organize presentations to persuade your audience and generate the outcomes you need
• Manage performance anxiety and replace fear with effective preparation strategies
• Bring your performance skills, personality, and humor to every speaking opportunity
• Deliver both impromptu and prepared speeches that fully achieve their intended goals

Starting Points

• Identify the professional and organizational benefits of strong executive speaking skills
• Understand the essential elements of a great presentation
• Create an individualized checklist of effective speaking skills specific to your needs

Probe

• Conduct a thorough and useful audience analysis before preparing any presentation
• Apply new research and organizational strategies to develop core and value-added content
• Build strong, memorable openings and closings for all your presentations

Plan

• Apply the right organizational pattern to structure and balance each presentation
• Identify and use media and visual aids that genuinely enhance your presentation

Practice

• Apply dynamic delivery skills that add interest, energy, and clarity
• Adapt your language to any audience and occasion to maximize credibility and retention
• Apply proven anxiety management methods before and during any presentation

Present and Process

• Project the image appropriate to the professional setting and situational expectations
• Handle Q&A sessions in a focused, controlled, and professional manner
• Design and deliver informative, persuasive, motivational, and special event presentations