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Own Your Voice: Improve Presentations and Executive Presence

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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Learn what it takes to command a room. Get practical tips for exuding executive presence and confidence when speaking to audiences large and small.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Improve public speaking skills and achieve executive presence
1. Actionable Theater Techniques
  • Theater techniques overview
  • Being on your spine
  • Eye contact
  • Breathing from your diaphragm
  • Making sound from your diaphragm while on your spine
2. Best Practices for Public Speaking and Formal Presenting
  • Make it a story
  • Establish your relationship to each major thought in your presentation
  • Practice as if you’re in the space
3. Amplifying Unheard Voices
  • Amplifying unheard voices
  • The voice of men vs. women
  • Set yourself up to succeed in imbalanced environments
  • Advocate for yourself with fact-based wins
4. Active Listening
  • Are you a good listener?
  • Illustration exercise through dictation
  • Listen to understand instead of learn
5. Qualifiers, Fillers, and Apologizers
  • Overview of qualifiers, fillers, and apologizers
  • Qualifiers
  • Fillers
  • Apologizers
6. Communicating with Accents or When English Is Your Second Language
  • Accents and English as a second language (ESL)
  • Identify potential trouble spots in advance
  • Get out that smartphone
7. Leadership
  • Leadership overview
  • Work to attain a balance between warmth and strength
  • Employ mindfulness
  • Advocate for others

Taught by

genConnectU

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