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Patrick Barry

Suppose you were good with words. Suppose when you decided to speak, the message you delivered—and the way you delivered it—successfully connected with your intended audience. What would that mean for your career prospects? What would that mean for your comfort level in social situations? And perhaps most importantly, what would that mean for your satisfaction with the personal relationships you value the most? This specialization is designed to help you find out. Based on an award-winning course and workshop series at the University of Michigan that has been taken by students training to enter a wide range of fields—law, business, medicine, social work, public policy, design, engineering, and many more—it removes the guesswork from figuring out how to communicate clearly and compellingly.

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Suppose you were good with words. Suppose when you decided to speak, the message you delivered—and the way you delivered it—successfully connected with your intended audience. What would that mean for your career prospects? What would that mean for your comfort level in social situations? And perhaps most importantly, what would that mean for your satisfaction with the personal relationships you value the most? This specialization is designed to help you find out. Based on an award-winning course and workshop series at the University of Michigan that has been taken by students training to enter a wide range of fields—law, business, medicine, social work, public policy, design, engineering, and many more—it removes the guesswork from figuring out how to communicate clearly and compellingly.

All of us have ideas that are worth sharing. Why not learn to convey yours in a way that people will appreciate, enjoy, and remember?

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Four courses

Speaking and Presenting: Poise

Poise is not an elusive or innate characteristic. It's a series of choices that can help you better connect with your audience. This course will help you identify those choices and make them to enhance your message's clarity and delivery's effectiveness.

Speaking and Presenting: Pitches and Persuasion

The hope good presenters project when pitching their ideas is not naïve. They merge hard facts with an imaginative vision to resonate with and inspire their audience.

Speaking and Presenting: Conversation Starters

This course teaches how to build persuasive surprises into presentations, the kind that change how your audience sees a particular situation or proposal and then gets them talking—in a good way. It also identifies several techniques you can use to start (and maintain) your own conversations, whether with a big group, a small group, or even just one-on-one.

Speaking and Presenting: Tact

To be an effective speaker, you don’t need to overwhelm people with your intellect or dazzle them from start to finish. You simply need to give them the sense that what they are receiving was especially prepared with their interests and needs in mind. This course will help you develop the judgment and dexterity needed to craft a perfectly tailored message.

Learning objectives

  • How to overcome stage fright and gain the confidence to speak with a persuasive sense of poise
  • How to enhance the structure and style of the message you want to deliver
  • How to pitch an idea, negotiate more creatively, and become a better listener
  • How to use the the p-r-o-d-u-c-t framework to create compelling presentations

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