Own Your Voice: Improve Presentations and Executive Presence

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

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