Speaking with confidence webinar

Discover the three pillars of great communication: story, status and focus to help you speak with confidence.

This ACA training webinar took place on Wednesday 19 January 2011.

• Story
  • What is the ‘story’ you need to communicate and what is its purpose
  • The success to a story: structure, fluidity, editing and the need to bring your communication to life
• Status
  • How gender, age and status of both you and your audience impact on how you communicate
  • Status levels 1-10
  • Physical, vocal and emotional status
• Focus
  • The three circles of focus: first, second and third

Listen again

If you missed the webinar, you can listen to a recording of Speaking with confidence : the three pillars of great communication webinar. The recording contains the entire presentation as well as the Q&A session at the end.

Questions from the webinar

• Speaking with confidence Q&A (PDF 29KB/3 pages) 

Further resources

• Speaking with confidence presentation slides (PDF 1MB/23 pages)
• Speech exercises - warm up routine (PDF 24KB/3 pages)
• Vocal exercises to help with good communication (PDF 33KB/5 pages)

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