Verbal Communications

Class Overview

This class will teach you how to:

Quickly and easily organize your speaking projects
Get your audience to take the action you want
Speak with brevity and clarity
Present your ideas more powerfully
Feel more confident about your speaking skills
Experience much less anxiety when you speak

Instructional Design

The instructor uses a question and answer format rather than a lecture format. The class is highly interactive and participation by every student is required. Although the key lessons are always covered in depth, each class is flexible in its format, so emphasis is always placed on the topics that are most important to the students.

Every class includes multiple exercises that draw the students wholeheartedly into the learning process and motivate them to project what they’re learning into their own lives. By the time they leave, they are already visualizing themselves using their new skills.

Class Outline

Introduction of two class rules – it’s impossible to be wrong, and everyone participates.
Introduction and in-depth exploration of a repeatable procedure, or “recipe” for creating consistently excellent verbal presentations, which includes answering the following questions every time you prepare:
- What action do you want your reader to take?
- Who is your audience?
- How will you recognize success?
Extensive evaluation by the instructor and all class participants of student writing samples and instructor-provided writing samples.
Writing effective emails
Exploration of techniques for quickly and easily creating logical flow
- Mind mapping
- Proper editing techniques
Proper sentence, paragraph and document structure
Review of proper punctuation
Review of proper grammar usage
Exploration of effective document construction techniques, including:
- Signposts
- Headings and subheads
- Formatting
- Font usage