Own Your Voice: Improve Presentations and Executive Presence
- Offered byLinkedin Learning
Own Your Voice: Improve Presentations and Executive Presence at Linkedin Learning Overview
Duration | 1 hour |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Credential | Certificate |
Own Your Voice: Improve Presentations and Executive Presence at Linkedin Learning Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion from LinkedIn Learning
Own Your Voice: Improve Presentations and Executive Presence at Linkedin Learning Course details
- Presentation Skills
- In this course, join communication coach Jackie Miller as she shares practical tips for exuding executive presence and poise when speaking to audiences large and small
- Explore different communication styles (and how to embrace your own). Get theater-based techniques for improving eye contact and harnessing the power of breath
- Plus, learn best practices for amplifying voices that may otherwise go unheard; ridding your speech of qualifiers, fillers, and apologies; communicating effectively when English isn?t your first language; and more
Own Your Voice: Improve Presentations and Executive Presence at Linkedin Learning Curriculum
Introduction
Improve public speaking skills and achieve executive presence
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
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
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
Active Listening
Are you a good listener?
Illustration exercise through dictation
Listen to understand instead of learn
Qualifiers, Fillers, and Apologizers
Overview of qualifiers, fillers, and apologizers
Qualifiers
Fillers
Apologizers
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
Leadership
Leadership overview