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University of Melbourne

  • 37% international / 63% domestic

Dynamic Presentations - Short Course

  • Non-Award

Develop a flair for public speaking and authentically engage your audience through a presentation skills short course. Ideal for professionals aiming to communicate effectively and confidently in various settings.

Key details

Degree Type
Non-Award
Duration
1 - 1 years full-time
Study Mode
In person

About this course

Dynamic Presentations

Develop a flair for public speaking and authentically engage your audience through a presentation skills short course.

Authentic, dynamic presentation is essential for professionals in all fields and increasingly important for standing out in digital settings. Public speaking courses like this one are ideal for anyone wanting to communicate more effectively and confidently, whether via your computer, in the meeting room or at the podium.

Entry requirements

There are no eligibility requirements.

What you will learn

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge.

Authentic, dynamic presentation is essential for professionals in all fields and increasingly important for standing out in digital settings. Public speaking courses like this one are ideal for anyone wanting to communicate more effectively and confidently, whether via your computer, in the meeting room or at the podium.

Hold your audiences attention

Using tactics from performance art, field research and psychology, learn to portray your message effectively with confidence, and keep your audience engaged by speaking from the heart.

Perform under pressure

Learn about peak performance and how to perform at optimum settings in high pressure situations - whether via your computer or at the podium - and to use the body's own systems to keep your nerves in check.

Bring your personal style to presenting

Benefit from personal coaching to find your personal presenting style and learn how to use posture and body language to affect how you are perceived, and how to make personal-professional contact.

Harness the art of rhetoric, persuasion and storytelling

Drawing on lessons from the great presenters - from the Ancient Greeks to Steve Jobs, learn to utilise simple debating skills, construct a compelling narrative, and project and resonate using your vocal cords safely.

Course structure

Course details

Dynamic Presentations is ideal for anyone who needs to communicate clearly and authentically to their teams or stakeholders, deliver difficult content or messages, or advocate ideas in a range of settings.

There are no eligibility requirements.

This course has been designed for a wide range of industries and professionals.

During the course you will prepare, practice and perform a short presentation, using learned techniques. You'll receive personal coaching and constructive feedback to build your authentic style and ensure you come away with skills you can apply immediately.

Key content areas include:
  • Body - how to use your posture and body language to affect how you are perceived
  • Voice - how to project, and resonate, while looking after your vocal cords
  • Authenticity - how to make personal-professional contact, and keep your audience engaged
  • Purpose - how to get to the crux of your message, and speak from the heart
  • Rhetoric - how to structure an argument and utilise simple debating skills
  • Oral storytelling - the art of constructing a compelling narrative
  • Peak performance - perform at optimum settings, using the body's own systems to keep your nerves in check.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

  • Understand a range of historical and theoretical contexts for performance
  • Select from a diverse range of performance styles for a targeted public performance
  • Use appropriate performance skills and techniques for specialist audiences
  • Use safe body, voice and communications techniques.

Dynamic Presentations is taught by experts from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, bringing together tactics from performance art, field research and psychology.

This course will be delivered on campus over a single day.

Dynamic Presentations can be taken as a stand-alone course or complemented with any other course in the Artful Communications suite, in any order.

Artful Communications includes:

  • Creative Digital Communications
  • Generating Creativity (Melbourne MicroCert)
  • Digital Storytelling (Melbourne MicroCert).