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Public speaking. Speak with confidence.

Express ideas clearly, hold an audience’s attention and find your words without a script. Practice for business and everyday life.

About the course

“Public Speaking: Speak with Confidence” — is more than just a public speaking course. It is a comprehensive program designed to develop your speech, communication, and influencing skills, helping you express your thoughts with confidence, persuade others, negotiate effectively, and communicate successfully in any situation.

The course is designed for anyone who wants to speak clearly, confidently, and convincingly — whether you are addressing a large audience, negotiating, managing a team, or communicating with clients and partners on a daily basis.

Throughout the course, you will learn how to structure your speech effectively, control your voice and breathing, overcome the fear of public speaking, build self-confidence, and master techniques of improvisation and argumentation. You will also learn how to capture and maintain your audience’s attention and communicate your ideas in a way that ensures you are understood and heard.

Who it is for

  • Entrepreneurs
  • Managers and team leaders
  • Experts and specialists
  • Anyone working with people and seeking professional and personal growth

What you will gain

  • Speak confidently with less anxiety
  • Express and structure thoughts clearly
  • Work with voice, speech and body language
  • Present confidently to an audience
  • Respond to unexpected situations
  • Build a convincing argument
  • Negotiate effectively
  • Persuade and inspire

Learning format

Theory with plenty of practice: exercises, presentations, analysis and feedback in every class help you apply new skills to real conversations.

Confident speech and the ability to persuade and inspire support your career, business and personal life.

Course programme

Communication foundations

The foundation of effective speech begins with the right fundamentals. In this module, you will develop clear speech, learn to work with breathing and voice, improve your diction, and learn to structure your thoughts logically so that you can speak clearly, coherently, and confidently.

Topics covered:

  • Speech training
  • Breathing and voice
  • Diction development
  • Thought structure and logic

Confidence & public speaking

Work with stage fright, body language and audience connection. Exercises include “One thought, one minute”, speaking without pauses, explaining complex ideas simply, stage practice, improvised speeches and holding attention.

  • “One thought — one minute”
  • “Speak without pauses”
  • “Explain complex ideas in simple language”
  • Going on stage
  • Impromptu speaking
  • Holding the audience’s attention

Improvisation & clear thinking

Think quickly and speak without preparation in negotiations, interviews and unexpected situations. Practise debates, “Advocates and prosecutors”, defending a position, “Sell an idea in one minute”, impromptu speaking and “Build a team”. Develop speed, clarity, flexible thinking and confidence.

  • — Debates
  • — “Lawyers and prosecutors” exercise
  • — Defending your position
  • — “Sell an idea in one minute”
  • — Improvisation without preparation
  • — Team-building exercises: “Build your team”

Negotiation & persuasion

Learn argumentation, guide a conversation, work with objections and hold your position in difficult negotiations. Practise negotiation scenarios, conflict analysis, working under pressure and defending your position.

The practice includes:

  • Negotiation scenarios
  • Analysis of conflict situations
  • Working under pressure
  • Techniques for defending your position

Your teachers

Mikhail Dolóko

Public speaking course director

Mikhail Dolóko

Artistic director of “Theater+”.