This is the missing manual from your pastoral training. The main way to get your congregation engaged and keep them engaged is your public speaking skills. In this course you'll learn dozens of engagement tactics that are guaranteed to keep your audience leaning forward and listening.
Daniel Pennington is an international speaking coach and author of two books on the subject
This course is designed specifically for you.
More than 50 short video lessons for you
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- What this course contains (2:37)
- Lesson 1: Why we need to use gestures to engage our audience (10:09)
- Morning Minute: What's in this for me? (0:53)
- Morning Minute: Why we should start with a story (0:47)
- Morning Minute: What are your key takeaways? (1:03)
- Morning Minute: Why great storytellers are also great story collectors (0:46)
- Morning Minute: Best practices for working with notes (1:06)
- Morning Minute: Using Alliteration to make your speech memorable (0:46)
- Lesson 2: Avoiding Monotone (13:09)
- Morning Minute: Rhetorical Questions (1:49)
- Morning Minute: The Power of a Great Story (3:45)
- Morning Minute: Let's Celebrate the Gap (0:49)
- Morning Minute: Move Around to Keep Audience's Attention (0:52)
- Morning Minute: Become Your Audience's Tour Guide (1:06)
- Morning Minute: Call and Response Technique (1:33)
- Lesson 3: Fundamentals of Storytelling (16:39)
- Morning Minute: Show, Don't Tell (1:20)
- Morning Minute: The Recency Effect (1:07)
- Morning Minute: You Serve No One by Playing Small (1:09)
- Morning Minute: About Being Nervous on Stage (1:07)
- Morning Minute: Advice on Shorter Stories (1:07)
- Morning Minute: Reading Your Audience (0:54)
- Lesson 4: The Power of Humor (10:53)
- Morning Minute: Overcoming Uhms and Ahhs (1:02)
- Morning Minute: Why Passion Beats Skills (0:53)
- Morning Minute: Please Don't Wing It (1:21)
- Morning Minute: The Police Interrogation Exercise (1:07)
- Morning Minute: The Flood is the Event but Noah is the Story (0:49)
- Morning Minute: Using Humor in Your Presentation (1:19)
- Lesson 5: Why Your First Seven Seconds Matter (19:28)
- Morning Minute: A Simple Presentation Template (3:09)
- Morning Minute: What is the Halo Effect? (1:07)
- Morning Minute: What I've Learned from Zig Ziglar (1:00)
- Morning Minute: Always Speak to One Person (0:41)
- Morning Minute: No One Knows but You (1:02)
- Morning Minute: An Inspirational Message (1:07)
- Lesson 6: Starting Your Speech with F.I.R.E. (3:32)
- Morning Minute: Highlight the Tough Terms (1:38)
- Morning Minute: Your Greatest Weakness may become Your Greatest Strength (1:08)
- Morning Minute: Good Feedback vs Bad Feedback (1:05)
- Morning Minute: Your First Day at School (0:45)
- Morning Minute: Avoid Feeling Overwhelmed by Simplifying Your Message (1:08)
- Morning Minute: Overcoming the Fear of Ridicule (1:04)
- Lesson 7: Techniques for Keeping Your Audience's Attention (10:43)
- Morning Minute: Suggestion to Change Your Statements into Questions (0:53)
- Morning Minute: Don't Underestimate the Power of making People Uncomfortable (1:18)
- Morning Minute: The Power of Bookending Your Presentation (1:01)
- Morning Minute: Strive to be Anti-Perfect (1:29)
- Morning Minute: All of This is Worthless (2:46)
- Morning Minute: When we have Eye Problems (2:39)
- Thanks, Closing Remarks, and an Offer for You (3:26)