SOPOPROF PUBLIC SPEAKING
Training Fee including food, lodging and tourism: $3,000.
People who cannot join the training on the scheduled date can have it on a date convenient to them either online or in person but are required to give Sopodiva a six-week notice prior to their chosen date.
Session Duration: 17 – 21 February 2025 & 21 – 25 July 2025
Introduction
In today’s competitive professional and business environments, everyone encounters a situation where public speaking skills are necessary. It could be at work, school, or in your personal life. Whether you are looking for tips on conquering stage fright, looking to improve your public speaking skills, or trying to motivate others on the importance of public speaking, this Sopoprof course has all the information you need.
General course objective
- Participants should be able to design a top-class presentation.
- Participants should be able to craft content to captivate your audience.
- Participants will acquire skills to persuade audience to accept your message.
- Participants will be equipped with skills to master nerves and remain calm during a public presentation.
THIS TRAINING WORKSHOP IS TARGETED AT
This Sopoprof Public Speaking training is aimed at managers, top executives, leaders and any professionals who need to be able to inform, convince or persuade people or speak in front of an audience.
SOPOPROF PROJECT MANAGEMENT OUTLINE
- The structure of a Successful Presentation
- Establishing the brief
- Audience analysis and persona creation
- Researching your subject
- Structuring your thoughts
- Write your outline and seek feedback
- The neuroscience of storytelling and memorability
- How to include storytelling throughout your presentations
- Powerful presentation openings
- Making data memorable
- Telling a story with pictures, graphs and charts
- Crafting a compelling call-to-action
- The presentation iceberg
- From plain narrative to the ‘dramatic arc’
- Structuring the story so that the audience can follow it – signposts
- Rehearsing the story to find its rhythm and the highs and lows
- Using feedback to improve the story and structure
- Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse to get your presentation notes right
- How to make the Perfect Slide Show
- How to Use Data and Visuals
- Building Transitions
- Virtual Presentation
- Orchestrating your body language and watching your audience
- Handling Questions
- Dressing for Success
- Commanding the room and holding Attention
- Building Rapport
- Projection, Pitch, Rate and Gesture
- How to Appear Confident
- How to Handle Hostile Questions and Win Over Your Audience
- Answering the phone
- Beginning a call
- Ending a call
- Appointments and arrangements
- Telephone conferences
- General business vocabularies
- Legal vocabularies
- Hospital vocabularies
- Transport vocabularies
- Hotel vocabularies
- Simple past vs present perfect in corporate context
- Conditional sentences
- Active and passive voice in corporate context
- Reported speech.
- Present simple and continuous to express permanent and temporary situations.
- Prepositions
- Linking words
WORKSHOP METHODOLOGY
This Sopoprof training course is very much hands on. Participants will gain practical skills that they can experiment with and practice within a safe and encouraging learning environment. There will be lots of group discussion, interactive workshops and opportunities to try out the skills that you have learned through presentation. Participants will learn how to give and receive effective, constructive feedback within their groups. What is more, they will leave the course with proven, effective tools with which to present information in a convincing way.
SOPOPROF TOUR
- Day one: participants will have the opportunity to visit and explore the University of Ghana.
- Day two: participants explore the Accra Mall and take the chance to watch a movie at the Silverbird Cinema before making their way back to the hotel.
- Day three: participants will tour the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum.
- Day four: industrial tour within Accra or Tema Metropolis
- Day five: participants will have to take enough rest on this day as they will embark on a much longer trip on day six.
- Day six: a trip to a tourist site outside Accra
