Course Details
Red Deer & Central Alberta Area
Course Details
Cost: Standard Tuition – $275.00
Student/Senior Tuition – $225.00 (Must show valid student card)
(Payment for course is due only when course enrollment is confirmed)
Time: 3 hours Tuesday evenings starting at 7:00 pm
Length: 11-week course
Prerequisite: You must be registered and confirmed to attend class.
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This course is based on adult learning principles. Each week, instructors present a different area of focus. The learned skills are then practiced in a positive and supportive workshop setting. In Christopher Leadership Courses, you learn by doing!
Presentation Types
- How to organize a talk – Learning how to organize and deliver dynamic and memorable presentations
- Speech reading – Practicing the do`s and don`ts for reading
- Speaking with an exhibit – Learning how exhibits can enhance your presentations
- Introducing and thanking speakers – Setting the stage and make a presenter feel welcome
- Presenting and accepting gifts – Making the recipient feel honored at their next retirement, going-away, birthday, anniversary, or other special event
- Impromptu speeches – Using techniques to speak effectively with little preparation
Presentation Techniques
- Memory techniques – Ways to remember key presentation points, and people`s names
- Eliminating “hems and haws” from your speech – Becoming a more polished professional
- Effective delivery – Learn how to use eye contact, gestures, posture and vocal intonation to enhance your message
- Adding KEY ingredients to your talk – Making your talk come alive!
Leadership Techniques
- Realizing your leadership talents by focusing on these attributes:
- Courage
- Listening
- Openness
- Uniqueness
- Affirming Others
- Accentuating the Positive
- Showing you Care
- Sharing your Light
- Celebrating life
Look at some of the benefits you could achieve by taking these courses:
- Communicate with greater confidence
- Have greater influence in groups
- Add interest to your presentations
- Be more polished at meetings and in front of groups
- Become a more confident leader
- Enhance your interpersonal skills
- Increase your awareness of non-verbal aspects of presenting and listening
- Participate in active listening
- Use visual aids, lecterns and microphones to their best effect
- Be confident when responding to questions
- … and more!