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5 Day Discovery Public Speaking

When:

07 July - 11 July 2025

School:

Maastricht Summer School

Institution:

Maastricht University

City:

Maastricht

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

English

Fee:

799 EUR

Interested?
5 Day Discovery Public Speaking

About

Becoming an effective communicator is the aim of the young and ambitious. It's the foundation of successful business relationships. Strong communicators clearly articulate their thoughts, persuade others, and build rapport with colleagues, stakeholders, and clients. Welcome to this 5-Day Discovery Public Speaking Course. If you need more clarification on your level of public speaking, you'll develop confidence and clarity on this comprehensive journey. Each session brings context, content, and new challenges. Breathing exercises and other foundational techniques, like posture, body language, gestures, and vocal variety, are discussed, and reviewed. Throughout each day, we create and deliver planned and impromptu speeches and tie them back to the theory and course learning objectives. This fun course encompasses creative storytelling, speech structures, Aristotle's work on rhetoric (persuasion), rhetorical devices, debating, introducing speakers and offering a vote thanks. Finally, we look at the use and misuse of PowerPoint presentations. Dig in for a challenging experience in public speaking that will change your perception of what you can achieve, and reassess your career trajectory.

Course leader

Vincent Stevenson

Target group

This class is ideal for beginners, intermediate, and advanced speakers. The variety of speaking contexts allows everybody to advance to their next level. Good English is a prerequisite.

Course aim

• To communicate effectively using posture, body language, facial expression, vocal variety, creating fluency, rhythm, and articulacy through impromptu and planned speech exercises;
• Understand and utilise Aristotle's rhetoric: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos;
• Understand and utilise Aristotle's 5 Canons of Rhetoric - planning, preparation, and practice;
• Understand and utilise the language of leadership;
• Understand and utilise creative storytelling in speech craft;
• Understand and utilise leadership tools like how to introduce a speaker; deliver a keynote speech; how to deliver a vote of thanks;
• Understand and utilise the purpose of debating in a business setting;
• Understand and utilise various leadership tools; delivering a SWOT analysis; Johari Window exercise;
• Understand the requirements of a panel discussion understand and utilise PowerPoint and other visual tools effectively.

Fee info

Fee

799 EUR, Tuition Fee

Interested?

When:

07 July - 11 July 2025

School:

Maastricht Summer School

Institution:

Maastricht University

Language:

English

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