PUBLIC SPEAKING

Unit 1: What is public speaking ?

• Informative Speaking
• Persuasive Speaking
• Speeches to Inspire Action 
• Speaking on Special Occasions 

Unit 2 : Stage Fright

• The Fear of Public Speaking 
•  Communication Apprehension (CA) Explained 
• How to Mange Public Speaking Anxiety

Unit 3: Preparing Your Presentation

• Before the Speech preparation 
• Select Your Material
• Highlighting text
• Contruct an Outline 
• Write Your Draft 
• Preparing Your Visuals 
• Revise Your Speech 
• Tie Loose Ends Together 
• Practice 

Unit 4: Presenting Your

• Delivering Your Speech: Methods of Delivery
• Delivery Your Speech: Vocal Aspects of Delivery
• Delivery Your Speech: Nonverbal Aspects of Delivery 
• Delivery Your Speech: Mastering the Room
• Determining the disciplinary route 
• Rules of evidence 
• Admissible evidence 
• Inadmissible evidence
• Other examples of inadmissible evidence 
• Primary vs supporting evidence 
• Formulating changes

Unit 5: Conducting the disciplinary action 

• Arranging a chairperson 
• The issue of representation 
• Preparing witnesses
• Onus of Proof
• The disciplinary hearing procedure
• Mitigating and aggravating statements 
• Appeal hearing 
• Role of initiator in appeals 
• Working of appeal procedure 
• Role play 

Unit 6: Managing poor work performance 

•  Introduction 
• Differentiating between probation and employees  that perform poorly 
• Substantive and procedural fairness 
• Informal and formal process 
• A practical guide for dealing with poor work performance 
• Incapacity as a reason for poor work performance 
• Step 1: Fact gathering process
• Step 2: Performance investigation 
• Step 3: Performance consultation 
• Step 4: Progress Meetings
• Step 5: Final performance review