Powerful Speaking

Learn how to speak so people listen from a 5-time TED speaker.

What you'll learn
Avoid the vocabulary and the common habits that suck power from your speaking
Master the foundations of power in speaking
Experiment with the tools in your vocal toolbox: accent, register, timbre, prosody, pace, pitch, space and volume
Target your speaking accurately and adapt it to situations and contexts
Requirements
Intermediate English
Description
Have you ever had the experience that people won't listen to you? Would you like to be one of those people for whom people instinctively fall quiet and really listen, whose words carry real weight and impact? With this course, you can and will be like that!  Making ourselves heard is a challenge simply because most of us have never been trained to speak effectively.  Powerful Speaking covers an important set of skills. Whether you're teaching your child, closing a prospective client, asking for a raise from your boss or proposing marriage to your partner, what you say and the way you say it will determine the outcome.  Many factors contribute to how effectively you speak. We'll reveal all the secrets of content and delivery in this course – everything from vocabulary to intonation – in order to transform your power so that you will speak confidently, naturally and with conviction. My TED talk on powerful speaking has over 35 million views on TED's website alone, putting it in the top 10 TED talks of all time.  So join me on this Powerful Speaking course, which will give weight and authority to your words and leave you speaking so that people listen. 

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to Powerful Speaking

Section 2: Vocabulary

Lecture 2 Vocabulary

Section 3: The Four Leeches

Lecture 3 The Four Leeches

Section 4: The Seven Deadly Sins

Lecture 4 The Seven Deadly Sins

Section 5: The foundations of power

Lecture 5 HAIL

Section 6: The vocal toolbox

Lecture 6 The vocal toolbox

Lecture 7 Register

Lecture 8 Timbre

Lecture 9 Prosody

Lecture 10 Pace and pitch

Lecture 11 Space

Lecture 12 Volume

Section 7: Speaking into and from

Lecture 13 Speaking into and from

Section 8: Public speaking

Lecture 14 Commit to give

Lecture 15 Prep, practise and check

Lecture 16 Warmups and stance

Lecture 17 Aids and common errors

Lecture 18 On stage

Section 9: Summary

Lecture 19 Summary

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