Confident Engaging Speaking Course – 5 week small group live in a room in Melbourne
Are you afraid of, or uncomfortable about, public speaking?
Do you worry that you’re not engaging, or lose your audience too easily?
Discover how to positively impact your public speaking or presentations in the Confident Engaging Speaking course.
This ‘fundamentals’ 5-week series will equip you with different, proven tools to overcome speaking fears
and master every basic of great speaking and presenting.
Learn how to engage your audience
Combat anxiety, discomfort or nerves
Build confidence and comfort that lasts
Gain a competitive professional edge
Who it’s for
This course is perfect if you need to:
- Speak up at work, as employee or employer
- Give a speech at a social event like a wedding
- Be heard in meetings – or run them
- Give presentations, talks or speeches
- Be interviewed on podcasts or make videos
- Conduct interviews effectively
And you’re reluctant, or just not as confident and engaging at speaking as you’d like.
Is English your second language? You’re very welcome to join the course. Contact me if you’d like to discuss before booking.
What you’ll learn
The 3 main focus areas in the Confident Engaging Speaking Course:
Focus 1
Overcome fear and become more confident and comfortable
- The 9 main causes of public speaking fear, and solutions for each one.
- Specific physical tools to gain mind and body control without suppressing or fighting your system.
- What to focus on to be competent and coherent ‘in the spotlight’
- New ways to deal with or transform anxiety (it’s not “positive thinking”).
- How to practise – the best ways to build belief and what not to do.
Focus 2
Create and organise your content quickly and easily
- Get time-saving structures, templates and checklists to save future effort, energy and focus.
- How to create clear messages FAST. Being clear is a challenge, this program gives you solutions.
- Create ‘Alive’ content that gets attention and engages.
- How to use humour effectively, even if you’re not naturally funny!
- Starting and closing strongly and effectively.
- Creating strong visuals/slide decks.
Focus 3
Deliver with high audience engagement
- Conversational, authentic ways to deliver effectively.
- Impromptu and prepared speaking opportunity each week, with tailored feedback and coaching.
- How to keep your audience interested, and re-engaged if you lose them!
- Using vocal variety (including ideas you probably haven’t heard before).
- The two vital E’s of good presenting.
- Should you tell a story? It depends. Find out why, and how to do it if you want.
Ready to go?
The details:
- Fridays starting 2nd May OR
- Saturdays starting 3rd May OR
- Duration: 9.30am – 12 noon.
- Sessions: 5 (1 morning per week).
- Venue: Quest Apartments, 741 Whitehorse Rd Mont Albert (near Box Hill) Melbourne
- Number of participants: 5 – 9
Later this year:
Friday mornings 25 July – 22 August
OR
Saturday mornings 26 July – 23 August
YOU GET:
- Suite of ‘Done for You’ templates and resources to make creating confident, engaging presentations or talks easy.
- Videotape of your talk each week (private downloadable link sent after each session).
- Worksheets each week to reinforce the learnings.
- Plus a bonus ‘Mind the Blanks’ video course FREE (usually $97): short, digestible videos on how to avoid/deal with mind blanks or brain freeze.
- Investment:
$1,800$1,360 plus GST.Instalment plans available.
4 months x
$450$340 plus GST early bird.
Book with 100% confidence
- Money back guarantee in 1st session if it’s not for you (very unlikely!).
- If you can’t make a session date, join another group that week.
- I’ll also make sure you’re caught-up if you miss a week.
- My goal: to ensure you get what you need from the program.
5 Week Confident Engaging Speaking Course
Learn a solid system to become a confident, engaging and clear communicator.
What my clients say
Sarah’s course was absolutely brilliant, she is a totally engaging communicator and speaker and I thoroughly enjoyed her classes. Would highly recommend to anyone whether looking to improve your overall speaking style or simply to overcome nerves. The classes are small, safe spaces and very positive.
Martin Blackledge
Sarah’s professionalism and approach to teaching provides the perfect environment to learn and grow. Her public speaking course is one of the best investments I’ve made to progress professionally. I definitely recommend Sarah to anyone who’s nervous about or just new to presenting and public speaking.
Diana Rincon
Student Recruitment Officer, Engineering and IT - University of Melbourne
I highly recommend Sarah’s course to anyone who wants to improve their communication techniques. The course provided me with a range of tools for structuring, presenting and dealing with nerves and anxiety associated with public speaking. The safe and supportive environment was perfect for practicing and refining my communication and presentation skills.
Karen Conradi
System and Technology Project Manager - Bureau of Meteorology
Hands down – Sarah’s training course is one of the best out there. I received exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for, enabling me to feel more confident when delivering presentations.
Her course is structured perfectly so you can reflect each week on the content and let the messages sink in. There was never a dull moment, and I genuinely gained a lot from it.
Sarah has a very engaging presentation style and knows how to make a room feel comfortable, even when people are nervous about presenting next. I highly recommend her training courses to anyone looking to upskill.
Kate Zisos
Senior Stakeholder and Community Relations Advisor - SparkNEL
I really recommend Sarah’s course for aspiring speakers. It was both informative and practical – Sarah provides a wealth of tips backed by research for you to pick and choose from, and offers targeted feedback based on your in-class performance. I found it really useful to practice impromptu talks in front of strangers. Sarah’s approach is kind, generous, encouraging and flexible. She is delightful and puts a lot of effort into the program. I really enjoyed working with her.
Rachel Kaye
Strategic Analyst, Defence
There are one hundred different reasons for doing this course and Sarah seems to know them all and kindly deal with them. The way she builds self-confidence in everyone is fantastic. Plus being able to think and structure in a clear way
Anne Skinner
Paralympian and Woman of Steel, ABC TV’s Australian Story
My story
I struggled hugely when I started speaking in public and was truly awful. Self- conscious, shaky, sometimes incoherent…with mind-blanks. (More on my story here).
So I decided to learn what works – to overcome my anxiety, and ultimately to speak with authority and presence.
And I’m not special: I just learned the right tools and practised. You can do this too.
Course Uniqueness
- Running for 15 years
- Continually updated for current best practice results
- Consistently 5⭐️ feedback
- An accelerated shortcut to excellence.
- Learn through spaced repetition, how we learn best.
- I’m with you all the way, totally committed to your success.
You can become a more confident, clear, connected and engaging speaker. Book now for the Confident Engaging Speaking Course.
I look forward to working with you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Friday mornings 2 – 30 May
OR
Saturday mornings 3 – 31 May
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Friday mornings 25 July – 22 August
OR
Saturday mornings 26 July – 23 August
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Friday mornings 17 October – 14 November
OR
Saturday mornings 18 October – 15 November
5 weeks.
At the Quest Apartments conference room in Mont Albert, Melbourne Eastern suburbs (near Box Hill): 741 Whitehorse Road.
Early bird: $1,360 plus GST upfront payment.
OR pay 4 monthly instalments of $340 plus GST. (It doesn’t cost you any more to pay instalments.) And yes, you can pay over 4 months for a 5 week course!
Regular fee once early bird expired: $1,980 plus GST
Or 4 monthly instalments of $495 plus GST
No problem. If you miss a week, you’ve got two options:
- You can join the other class running that week OR
- Be sent the teachings and worksheet to watch on video (worksheet pages with my voiceover) after the session.
You can book with 100% confidence: I offer a full refund, or transfer to the next course. Your choice.
The group is usually anything from 4 – 9 people.
Many participants in this course are not native English speakers, and are from all over the world: you’re welcome to join the course. If you’d like to discuss with Sarah first, contact her here.
The course runs every quarter: so, four times a year.
Yes. You’ll be videotaped giving your talk each week, and the link sent to you privately. You don’t have to watch these – they can be great coaching tools. If unsure, ask me whether to watch them or not.
Yes, please ask if you’d like a certificate and a printable one will be sent to you.