Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Become a Better Presenter: Improve Your Public Speaking Skills
This course explored the basic concepts of public speaking and how to improve your presenting skills. Key concepts covered were: how to identify personal strengths and weaknesses, how to add personality and when to use humor, the importance of a narrative, how to pitch to a specific audience, technical aspects of presenting and how best to interact with your audience.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Elizabeth Avery
Senior Manager: Astronomy Education
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect on your own presenting style identifying aspects where you feel you excel as well as where you need to improve.
- Explain information clearly and effectively to your audience without needing to rely on jargon or them having pre-existing subject knowledge.
- Apply what you have learned in theory and put it into practice.
- Share and discuss your thoughts and fears about presenting with other learners in a similar position to see what their concerns are about presenting too.
- Learn how to interact effectively with your audience covering everything from tackling difficult and controversial questions to dealing with challenging behavior.
- Identify networks and sources you can tap into to keep your skills sharp.
Syllabus
- How to identify your presenting strengths and weaknesses.
- How to add personality and life into your presenting style.
- How to engage with your audience whoever that may be from formal meetings to full-blown theatre shows.
- How to sharpen your presenting skills, specifically when it comes to improvisation, storytelling and weaving a narrative through your presentations.
- Activities that will allow you to put the theory you have learned into practice.
- What to do when things go wrong.
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Issued on 4th December 2023
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