Writing for presentations and speeches
Presentations: love them or hate them, they are an important part of professional life – whether to inspire, motivate, change minds or simply report back to your peers. View course details
The art of successful presentation writing
A high-impact presentation is as much about what you say as how you say it – something that most presentation skills courses overlook. Yes, your delivery and appearance are crucial. And yes, being a confident speaker helps. But you still need to captivate your audience with your content. In short, you need a combination of writing and presentation skills.
Presentation and speech writing training
In our presentation and speech writing course, you will learn how to capture and keep your audience’s attention. Without relying on PowerPoint. To inspire people, you need to appeal to their values. To carry them, you need pace and rhythm. To change minds, shape visions or even tell everyone what you do all day, you must choose and order your words carefully. We'll show you how. Whether you need to improve your corporate speech writing or presentation writing skills, this course is for you.
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- What you'll learn
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Our presentation and speech writing course will show you how to:
- use the techniques of the best speech-writers
- avoid Death by PowerPoint
- tailor your talk to your audience
- build an effective structure
- create an intro that grabs your audience
- keep people with you (and awake!)
- write a strong, memorable ending
- use rhythm and ‘colour’, and avoid weak words
- punctuate for speech
- know when – and how – to ring the changes
- design slides that work
- influence and inspire your audience
- write attention-grabbing ‘two-liners’ to promote your talk.
Download a PDF about this course, including a course outline.
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- Who is this course for?
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This presentation and speech writing course will benefit anyone who has to speak in front of an audience, whether in internal meetings or at large public-speaking engagements.
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