Professional Public Speaking (2 Day)

Unlock the Power of Public Speaking in Just 2 Days

Ready to elevate your career and boost your confidence and charisma? Start your journey today and gain certified public speaking and presentation skills.

Imagine transforming public speaking from something nerve-wracking into a skill that feels natural. In just two days, you’ll gain:

• Unshakable confidence and control
• Mastery of speech structure and delivery
• Secrets to creating exceptional content

And you’ll be guided every step of the way by a four-time National Public Speaking Champion.

Double Certification, Double Recognition, Double Rewards

By fully attending and completing both days, you’ll walk away with two prestigious certifications from:

ILM 
CPD Certification

A Hands-On Approach
This programme emphasises practical speaking and gaining experience over just listening over theorising. 
You won’t just sit and absorb information – you’ll present at least four times each day, honing your skills in a practical, supportive environment.

What Makes Great Public Speakers?

Great public speakers have complete control over three key elements:
The Speaker – their delivery
The Speech – its structure
The Audience – the content's connection

This course dives deep into these elements, ensuring you master each one.

Is This Course Right for You?

If you’re an executive or professional looking to elevate your public speaking game with a complete set of planning, structuring, and delivery skills, this course is for you.
Upon completion of both days, you’ll earn ILM R and CPD certificates, solid proof of your newly acquired skills.

What Will You Learn?

During this 2-day intensive programme, you’ll gain all the tools you need to become an exceptional speaker. Here’s a snapshot of what you’ll learn:

• Create a simple, universal speech structure
• Use vocal variety to keep your audience engaged
• The importance of eye contact and when to use it
• Master effective gestures
• Know when to move or stay still
• Use your voice to emphasise key concepts
• The #1 rule of rapport building
• Overcome speaking nerves
• A 3-step pre-presentation routine to boost control
• Plan and deliver a memorable opening and closing
• Understand your audience’s motivations
• Weave storytelling into your presentation for maximum impact
• Summarise your message with a powerful ‘nutshell statement’
• Present confidently without relying on notes

A Speaker’s Journey

Even the best speakers don’t always enjoy being on stage. But they all have something important to say. And when it comes to speaking, it’s not about broadcasting – it’s about connecting. The key to connection? Being relatable.

Your audience isn’t there to see how different you are from them, but rather to discover how much you have in common. The pressure eases when you realise it’s not all about you – it’s about relating to them.

The Three Fundamentals of Great Speaking:

Discover your personal speaking style and apply the right techniques
Practice in a safe, supportive environment, with plenty of opportunities to speak

Build confidence and trust in yourself, so you shine even on an off day

Everyone Can Be a Great Speaker

Yes, anyone can be a good speaker. Everyone can improve. The only question is – are you ready to become the best speaker you can be? We’re here to help you achieve that goal.

Why Choose This Course?

We start with the basics, using simple structures to ensure you can focus on what really makes a great speaker:

• Delivery skills: vocal variety, projection, pace, gestures, eye contact, and engagement.
• Speech structure: objectives, openings, endings, the rule of three, and memory aids.
• Content: storytelling, metaphors, analogies, and rhetorical devices.

Once you’ve built confidence, we’ll take your speaking to the next level.

Transform your public speaking skills. Take the first step today!

Day 1

We will provide you with over 50 different public speaking tips and techniques during the day, and provide an encouraging and supportive environment to practise and improve.
We build confidence and self-belief on a solid foundation of lots of practical tangible successes.
The focus will be on identifying tried and tested hints and techniques that will work for you when you need them, rather than getting bogged down in abstract theories and mantras.

Some of the tips are simple to apply, some are obvious, some might surprise you! But they are all first-hand techniques that work, that have withstood the pressure of performance and over the years have won numerous compliments, many contracts and several competitions

Over 50 tips and techniques

Delivery
20 + practical tips on delivery that can be adopted immediately to make an impact on not just how you feel about presenting, but how you come across

Structure
10 + simple practical tips on structure to help you organise and make powerful impression, start well, finish well and keep you on track throughout the speech so that over time you can cut down, simplify or maybe do away with notes altogether

Content
10+ simple practical tips on content to make sure every presentation is engaging, captivating and relatable and to make sure you come across as likeable, credible, confident and worth listening to

Stagecraft
10+ simple practical tips on confidence and performance to create the mental state to overcome nerves and make a connection.

Day 2

We will learn:
how to master 3 fundamental types of story:
(i) personal examples, anecdotes
(typically expressing the communication principle of ‘feel felt found’)
creating stories that build personal rapport and team togetherness;
(ii)  stories about ‘others’ or using well-known cultural examples to access collective wisdom (typically expressing the principle of ‘if they can – we can’)
creating stories that inspire and motivate; and
(iii) universal stories (typically metaphorical) that capture a vision or collective aim.

learn to construct stories with a clear purpose, choosing between:
(i) simple personal or anecdotal stories that illustrate a general principle and
(ii) literal stories of struggle and success;
judging whether it is better to put yourself into the centre of the story,
or to focus on others;
choosing between stories that point towards an ideal outcome and stories that warn against an undesired outcome 

explore a variety of possible of storytelling techniques
(such as: simple imagery; unexpected turns; unusual juxtapositions;
reporting actual dialogue; appealing to all senses; introducing characters);
creatively employing structure, rhythm and repetition to enhance impact;
using the main key message to bring into focus preceding elements of the narrative;
introducing relevant rhetorical devices to  increase impact and help to embed key messages;
adapting popular stories to highlight a point;
exploring exaggeration, surprise and arresting imagery.

how to use different story forms as the blueprint for the whole presentation.

Add to that a few extra tips for preparation and banishing nerves on stage and we can move you on from where you are towards where you want to be.

That might mean we take you from timid to terrific, cautious to confident, or simply from good to gloriously great.

"Absolutely wonderful. Made an effort to learn everyone’s name (even mine!). Honestly one of the best training sessions I have ever taken part in. Right balance between theory and practice. Loved it! Thank you!"

Ghonche Alavi – Gardaworld

"I appreciated how much personalized feedback was given on the spot and how engaged Michael was. "

Gwen Osserman – Mintel

"A fantastic two days teaching, in a very supportive and fun environment under expert guidance. So many useful and practical tips to take away. Would highly recommend."

Jenny Ayres - Golden Spur Enterprises

"Super relevant. Super well presented. Best training I’ve ever received!"

Sarah Mills – Keep Britain Tidy

"I will take away a tremendous amount of confidence from this course."

Janine Leigh – Airlock Aviation Ltd

"Superb. I really learned something about myself today! Definitely coming back for Training the Trainer."

Rachel Henson (Plannings Inspectorate)

"The opportunity of speaking in public in a risk free environment and the relevant feedback received. Very relatable and down to earth. Very effective examples."

Enrico Arietti

"Good conversational style. Lots of frameworks to try. Good blend of technique, framework, practice, video"

Kate Round - Thought Works

"Lots of useful examples, comparisons and good active listening for helpful feedback."

Sarah Dunn – Elms Solutions

"Highly effective – friendly, professional approach with time given to everyone to speak and contribute"

Sue Martin – Corby Learning Partnership

"Excellent use of examples. Funny, light-hearted, easy learning environment. Built confidence."

Yvonne Geasley – De Beers

"I got so much out of the course and I know I will be using the skills you taught us for many years to come."

Lynda Marsden - Havering

"So effective – great balance of support with points for improvement."

Emma Bennett – Gloucester CC

Your tutor - Michael Ronayne

4x UK National Public Speaking champion

Apart from 20 years of coaching and supporting other speakers & trainers, Michael has developed and delivered certified Training the Trainer courses for over 15 years. He can demonstrate it; he can see what needs to be done and he can teach it.

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