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Master the art of public speaking and enhance your communication skills with a wide range of professional public speaking classes in NYC. Learn invaluable techniques, build confidence, and transform your presentations into captivating and persuasive experiences.

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3 Week Public Speaking

Energize Your Voice @ 520 8th Ave, New York, NY

Learn tangible tips to help overcome your fear of public speaking and become a more dynamic and engaging speaker. In this course students will receive professional feedback to take their speaking and presenting to the next level. We'll cover everything from body language to calming your body to managing your audience. Whatever level you're starting out, you'll learn how to improve and elevate your speaking skills. Each week will be packed with presenting,...

(65) All levels 21 and older
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$165

3 sessions

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Speaking in Public

Borough of Manhattan Community College @ 25 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY

This course will help you gain confidence and strength in your presentation techniques. You will: Increase your tone: pitch variety, rhythm, and volume. Enjoy the art of enhancing imagery with the stressing of words and syllables. Gain a variety of breathing techniques and voice exercises to overcome fear and nerves. Learn body language and eye contact skills to grab your listener and to keep your audience engaged. Master the art of handling...

(178) All levels 18 and older
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$255

8 sessions

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Improv for Professionals

Input Lofts (formerly WECREATE) @ 58 E. 11th St. 8th Fl, New York, NY

This intro class will begin to enhance your skills in public speaking, focused listening, responding, flexibility and specificity – leading to greater confidence and lower inhibitions when speaking or presenting. Improvisation is not just something for actors and comedians. MBA Students are being asked to take improv classes. Why? The answer is the same reason why professionals and educators should be trained: the root is in communication. Even...

(160) Beginner 16 and older
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Presentation Skills

Input Lofts (formerly WECREATE) @ 58 E. 11th St. 8th Fl, New York, NY

In this class, you’ll learn presentation skills essential to being a more interesting and present speaker. Public speaking is feared more than death. Why? We spend so much time preparing what we are going to say that we fail to focus on the how. While some people make wooing a crowd look easy, for a long time, public speaking was accepted to be hard, a skill possessed by and necessary for only a select few professions. All that has quickly changed...

(160) All levels 16 and older
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Get Over the Fear and Into Confidence

Speak Wells @ 37 East 28th Street, Suite 201 (2nd Fl), New York, NY

Face the Fear: Finally! Just about everyone has had pre-presentation jitters at some point in their lives. It's normal. When you feel like you are about to hurl, pass out or just run out of the room, well, maybe we should do something about it. Take away tried and true strategies to nix the nerves and get you on track. You'll learn how to: Control your breath, your body and project your voice Re-set your mindset and take command of anticipation...

(12) All levels 18 and older
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Never Sound Unprepared Again (Even If You Are)

Speak Wells @ 37 East 28th Street, Suite 201 (2nd Fl), New York, NY

Sound Sure of Yourself Even When it's Off the Cuff Whether in office meetings, client phone calls, or unexpected curve ball questions thrown at you during a presentation, you can’t be prepared for everything that comes your way. Or can you? This workshop will teach you how to come off like an expert and authority, even when you don’t know the answer. Classes capped at 8 participants so you get the attention you need. Learn how to navigate...

(12) All levels 18 and older
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$197
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Fearless Presentations® (One Day)

Fearless Presentations @ 77 Water St, New York, NY

The fastest, easiest way to reduce public speaking fear and anxiety! Reduce nervousness, present with poise and confidence, and become more persuasive in one day. This public speaking course is the fastest, easiest way to reduce stage fright. In just a single day, this presentation seminar helps participants gain poise and self-confidence in front of a group! Public Speaking Fear is still the #1 fear in America. And, right or wrong, people form...

(4) All levels 15 and older
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$995

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Public Speaking Wells 101

Speak Wells @ 37 East 28th Street, Suite 201 (2nd Fl), New York, NY

Figure Out What You're Doing Right. Not sure if you're on the right track with your presentation game? Come with some talking points or a prepared 3 minute talk and find out. We’ll work on everything from delivery to preparation to the flow of your content, including: Evaluate your current skills based on the 5 key presence qualities  Develop a plan to highlight your strengths and target your weaknesses  Learn and practice new...

(12) All levels 18 and older
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Public Speaking & 3C's: Confidence, Creativity & Comedy

GoldJam Creative @ 16 W 22nd St, New York, NY

Blogologues is a New York-based sketch comedy show in which blog posts, Craigslist posts, tweets, and more are performed live and verbatim onstage; the show has been featured in The Daily Beast, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, and more. In this class, co-creators Allison Goldberg & Jen Jamula take their experience reimagining text onstage and teach participants how to present with confidence and apply the principles of reinventing text...

(35) All levels 18 and older
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Keynotes 101

The Story Source @ 175 Varick St, New York, NY

How can you gain the skills to deliver a talk that really matters? One that hooks your audience and leaves them motivated and inspired for change? In this workshop, you’ll gain knowledge of how to build and deliver an impactful keynote talk, from idea to execution. You’ll learn the different types of keynote talks before discussing best practices for generating ideas and stories. Then you'll get the opportunity to put your newfound skills to...

(298) All levels 18 and older
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Speaking To Engage:Be A Better & Funnier Public Speaker

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

Learn Comedy Habits to be a better public speaker, consistently funnier and help rid the world of boring presentations!Top business speakers are using humor.They are developing laugh lines using the same process as comedians.You don't need to be a natural comedian to get laughs. This courses teachings, as referenced in Inc, Forbes, Fast Company, Lifehacker and featured by Prezi as one of the 5 best online training courses for presenters, outlines...

(2637) All levels 18 and older

Speak Wells for Powerful Presentations

Speak Wells @ 37 East 28th Street, Suite 201 (2nd Fl), New York, NY

Deliver presentations that engage and excite. Your audience will thank you for inspiring them to action instead of putting them to sleep. Come with your 5 minute opening for an upcoming presentation and learn techniques to instantly engage your audience. We’ll work on everything from delivery to preparation to the flow of your content, including: Evaluate your current skills based on the 5 key presence qualities Develop a plan to highlight...

(12) All levels 18 and older
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Storytelling For Stand Up Comics

Jeff Lawrence/Laughing Buddha Comedy @ 244 W 54th , New York, NY

Storytelling is an art form that has entertained and informed over centuries and cultures. You can now learn this effective tool and incorporate it's tenets into your stand up act. Storytelling For Stand Up Comics: Translate your life story into an original five minute comedy set Develop characters from storytelling that are rich, funny, and unique Take risks as a comic, actor, and writer, resulting in unbridled confidence Learn the difference...

(1) All levels 16 and older
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$300

5 sessions

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Improv(e) Yourself: Improv for Professionals

The Engaging Educator @ 58 E. 11th St, New York, NY

Improvisation isn’t just for actors and comedians – it’s for everyone. Even MBA Students are being asked to take improv classes as part of their required courses. Why? Improv education focuses on key skills in communication – public speaking, listening, presence, connection and focus. We communicate every day – and there is a difference between doing it habitually and doing it well and with intention. Heard of the ‘Yes, And’ idea elevation...

(401) All levels 18 and older
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Speaking and Presentation Skills (Coed)

The Engaging Educator @ 244 W 54th St, New York, NY

Public speaking is feared more than death. We spend so much time preparing WHAT we are going to say that we fail to focus on the HOW. What does it take to make wooing a crowd look easy? And even if you don’t fear public speaking – are you good at it, or have you had an audience look through you? Public speaking used to be accepted as a difficult skill possessed by and necessary for only a select few professions. All that has quickly changed over...

(401) Beginner 18 and older
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Presentation and Design for Journalists

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of good presentation, layout, and multimedia design. The course will cover basic typography, color theory, page layout, navigation, and information architecture. It will also address the importance of design in building brand and audience. Students will use a variety of online tools and services as well as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. Weekly material and assignments will culminate...

(64) All levels 18 and older
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$350

5 sessions

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Storytelling for Leaders Bundle

The Story Source @ 175 Varick St, New York, NY

This is a discounted package of courses frequently purchased together. Click into each course to learn more about its curriculum and the available dates & times. To sign up for this discounted package, select a start date, which will be the date for the first class in the package. After you register, contact the school to schedule the remaining class(es). === Wouldn’t it feel great to navigate small talk towards more meaningful topics? Excite...

(298) All levels 18 and older
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$120
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Public Speaking with Confidence

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

Are you the best speaker you can be? Do you get nervous when speaking or presenting in front of people? This class with professional singer and highly experienced public speaking coach Linda Kundell will teach you how to become a better, more confident speaker. We will learn how to: manage our nerves and tension; craft and deliver a compelling presentation; improve our posture and body language; use breathing and relaxation techniques; master the...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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$155

4 sessions

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Storytelling Intensive: Dive to Craft & Tell Your Story

The Engaging Educator @ 244 W 54th St, New York, NY

Storytelling Intensive: 3 Week Dive to Craft, Refine and Tell Your Story This is a coed class ‘Storytelling remains basic: it’s just a campfire, the human connection that says you’re not alone’ – Shonda Rhimes Marketing, brand development, education, dates, networking, grants, pitches – what do these things have in common? A story makes it stronger. Crafting arcs, refining flow and focus, and the techniques around storytelling are...

(401) All levels 18 and older
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$119

3 sessions

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Overcoming Your Fear of Public Speaking

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

“Lynn was the first person to illuminate for me the idea of training the voice to be a powerful and versatile instrument of character.” — Academy Award nominee Edward Norton Performance anxiety arises from fear of being seen and being heard in situations that feel critical. This course, in a deeply supportive atmosphere, offers bodywork exercises that enables one to retrain those responses, get deeply grounded in your nervous system,...

(299) All levels 18 and older
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