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Speak To Move Them

Introduction

Public speaking is one of the highest-leverage skills in modern professional life — and one of the most consistently avoided. Whether the room is five colleagues or five hundred clients, the speaker who can hold attention, tell a story, and land a clear message is the speaker whose ideas move forward.

Most speaking training focuses on slide design or content structure. This program does something different: it works on the speaker before it works on the speech. We start inside — voice, body, nerves — because the audience reads those long before they read your words. Then we work outward — story, hooks, closings, Q&A — so that the message you carry is delivered the way you mean it.

What makes this training stand out is that we treat speaking as a craft, not a personality test. There is no one ‘charismatic type’ you must imitate. Instead, participants learn the underlying mechanics — pace, pause, stance, story spine, hook, closing — and practice them in real time, on their feet, with peer feedback. We protect a safe room so participants can take risks; we build a clear method so the skills transfer to Monday morning.

The training is heavy on practice. Across the two days, every participant delivers two speaking rounds — a 2-minute introduction on Day 1 and a 5-minute signature talk on Day 2 — and gives and receives feedback using a structured peer protocol. Participants leave with a 30-day commitment plan and an accountability partner from the room.

Whether your goal is to lead a meeting with more presence, present to executives without losing your voice, deliver a keynote that audiences remember, or simply stop dreading the moment all eyes turn to you, this training will give you a method, a practice plan, and the confidence to use them.

Join us for two days of finding your voice, telling your truth, and learning — through repetition and honest feedback — how to speak in a way that actually moves the people in front of you.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program, the participants should be able to:

Understand why speaking matters and what truly moves an audience
Apply the 4 dials of vocal variety — pace, pitch, volume, and pause
Use posture, gesture, and stage movement intentionally to reinforce the message
Reframe nerves and apply practical techniques to manage anxiety before and during a talk
Build a talk-length story using the 5-beat story spine
Open a talk with a strong hook and close it with a line that lands
Handle Q&A with confidence using the ARC method
Give and receive structured peer feedback using the I SAW / I FELT / I WANTED MORE OF / I WONDER IF protocol
Walk away with a personal 30-day practice plan and an accountability partner

Key Content

Day 1 — The Speaker Inside (Voice, Body, Nerves)

Module 1: Why Speakers Matter (Introduction)

[Theory + Discussion] Why speaking is the highest-leverage skill you can build
[Discussion] Speakers who moved us — and what they did differently
[Theory] The Speaker's Promise: presence, honesty, generosity

Module 2: Your Voice, Found

[Theory] The 4 dials of vocal variety: pace, pitch, volume, and pause
[Exercise] One-line, four readings — emphasis changes meaning
[Exercise] The 5-minute daily vocal warm-up (yawn-sigh, lip trills, twisters, hum, read-aloud)
[Theory + Discussion] The power of the pause: why silence is the most underused tool
[Reflections] My filler words — naming what to track

Module 3: Body As Message

[Theory] What the audience reads before you speak: posture, face, energy
[Exercise] The Power Stance — five-point body check
[Theory] The three gesture zones: belt, chest, head+
[Exercise] Movement Map — planning the 3 stage points of your talk
[Discussion] Common nervous tells (fig leaf, pocket-anchor, weight-shifting) and how to retire them

Module 4: Nerves Are Not the Enemy

[Theory] What is actually happening in your body — the chemistry of stage fear
[Theory + Reflections] Reframe: "I am afraid" → "I am ready"
[Exercise] The 4-7-8 breath and pre-stage routine
[Reflections] Naming your inner critic — voice, face, and reason
[Discussion] Holding nerves while staying present in the room

Module 5: Practice Round 1 — The 2-Minute Introduction

[Theory] How to give feedback that actually helps: I SAW / I FELT / I WANTED MORE OF / I WONDER IF
[Exercise] 2-minute introduction — every participant on stage, on their feet
[Final Reflections – Day 1] What surprised me, what I'm taking home, and what I'll watch tonight

Day 2 — The Message Outside (Story, Hooks, Closings, Q&A)

Module 6: The Story Spine

[Theory] Why story beats slide — what stories do that bullets cannot
[Theory] The 5 beats every talk-length story needs
[Exercise] Build your story — map a true story you'd tell a friend
[Exercise] Sensory-detail audit — sight, sound, touch, smell, gut
[Discussion] Concrete vs. abstract: keeping the audience inside the moment

Module 7: Hooks That Land

[Theory] The first 10 seconds — why "Today I'm going to talk about..." never works
[Theory] Five hook archetypes: the moment, the question, the stat, the bold claim, the confession
[Exercise] Draft three hooks for your talk and test them aloud
[Reflections] Which hook makes ME lean in?

Module 8: Closings That Stick

[Theory] Why the last 15 seconds outweigh the previous 15 minutes
[Theory] Four closing modes: callback, call to action, call to vision, call to courage
[Exercise] Write your final line — rehearsed, land-able, memorizable
[Discussion] Phrases to retire forever ("That's all I had," "I'm running out of time," closing with "Any questions?")

Module 9: The Q&A That Lands

[Theory] Reframe: Q&A is where trust is built or lost
[Theory] The ARC method: Acknowledge, Reframe, Close
[Theory + Reflections] What to say when you don't know — three honest scripts
[Exercise] Hot-seat: prepare for the 3 questions you dread most
[Discussion] Disarming the hostile question without losing the room

Module 10: Practice Round 2 + The 30-Day Plan

[Exercise] 5-minute Signature Talk — every participant delivers their hook, story, and close
[Exercise] Structured peer feedback round (I SAW / I FELT / I WANTED MORE OF / I WONDER IF)
[Reflections] My commitments: one daily micro-practice, one weekly stretch-rep, one monthly milestone
[Exercise] Pair up — find your accountability partner and set 3 check-ins
[Final Reflections] What I believed on Day 1 — what I believe now. The first audience I will speak to differently.

Target Audience

Frontliners
Customer Service Personnel
Executives
Supervisors
Team Leaders
Administrative Staff
Operational Staff
Support Staff
Managers
Assistant Managers
Employees from all levels

Methodology

The course content will be delivered through experiential learning – activities and game debrief, reflections, short lectures, group discussions, group presentation and scenario discussion.