Good speaking is your most enduring job skill. This four-course specialization will provide you with the instruction, experience, and practice to develop and deliver compelling presentations. Drawing from the established knowledge in communication, rhetoric, linguistics, and argumentation, each course balances proven ideas with lots of speech practice.
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Good speaking is your most enduring job skill. This four-course specialization will provide you with the instruction, experience, and practice to develop and deliver compelling presentations. Drawing from the established knowledge in communication, rhetoric, linguistics, and argumentation, each course balances proven ideas with lots of speech practice.
Good speaking is your most enduring job skill. This four-course specialization will provide you with the instruction, experience, and practice to develop and deliver compelling presentations. Drawing from the established knowledge in communication, rhetoric, linguistics, and argumentation, each course balances proven ideas with lots of speech practice.
The courses in this specializations should help speakers at all levels. If you are nervous about public speaking, this is for you! I have spent an entire career helping nervous novice speakers grow into confident communicators. We slowly work up specific skills that you can practice multiple times before putting together a longer speech.
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Four courses
Introduction to Public Speaking
Introduction to Public Speaking
Speaking to inform: Discussing complex ideas with clear explanations and dynamic slides
Speaking to inform: Discussing complex ideas with clear explanations and dynamic slides
Speaking to persuade: Motivating audiences with solid arguments and moving language
Speaking to persuade: Motivating audiences with solid arguments and moving language
Speaking to Inspire: Ceremonial and Motivational Speeches
Speaking to Inspire: Ceremonial and Motivational Speeches
Learning objectives
- Substantial increase your confidence and presence as a dynamic speaker.
- develop delivery techniques for voice, movement, and gesture that engage audiences.
- Prepare effective speeches for various purposes (informative, persuasive, praise), occasions (workplace, special events, etc.), and audiences.
- master speechwriting techniques for storytelling, argument, style, topic framing, and discussing evidence.
- Substantial increase your confidence and presence as a dynamic speaker.
- develop delivery techniques for voice, movement, and gesture that engage audiences.
- Prepare effective speeches for various purposes (informative, persuasive, praise), occasions (workplace, special events, etc.), and audiences.
- master speechwriting techniques for storytelling, argument, style, topic framing, and discussing evidence.
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