This public speaking training gives concrete keys to express yourself with ease before a group, in meetings, conferences or facing camera. Over two days, you work on speech preparation, body posture, voice and stage fright management. A complete approach combining technique and confidence, without drift or magic recipes.
A speech is prepared, that is what reassures audience and speaker
For profiles speaking regularly in French speaking Switzerland (managers, trainers, business experts, founders), this course offers an operational frame. Format with intensive exercises, filmed feedback and personalized debriefs. You leave with techniques applicable at next event and a training plan.
Module 1: Training Introduction
Module 2: Presence and Posture
Module 3: Emotions
Module 4: Content
Module 5: Building Autonomy
Speaking before a group remains one of the most impactful and most feared professional skills. This course offers a structured approach for those who want to upskill on this subject, without falling into unrealistic promises or universal recipes. In Geneva and Lausanne, many participants come from functions where oral conditions credibility: management, consulting, research, sales, HR, internal training.
An effective speech rests on a clear plan: opening, key message, logical structure, marking close. The course details schemas working in professional context with writing exercises on your upcoming interventions. You work from a concrete case to anchor the method from the first hour.
Posture, gaze, vocal placement, breathing: concrete and trainable levers. The course offers simple exercises accessible without prior theatrical practice, transforming sensation and perception. Many participants report a visible difference from the second half-day.
Stage fright is not fatality. It is understood (normal physiological reaction), tamed (breathing, visualization, anchoring techniques) and even transformed into useful energy. The course works these techniques rigorously, without naivety, and also addresses unexpected events management (technical failure, hostile question, lost thread).
The same message is not delivered alike to 10 collaborators or 200 guests, internal or external, in room or video. The course offers a quick adaptation grid by format, with practical advice for each case. The specificity of hybrid public speaking (in-person + video) is integrated.
Oral ease builds over time. The course closes with a personalized training plan: objectives, exercise rituals, progression milestones. So that course progress anchors instead of fading, and the next public speaking is already better prepared than the previous.
Managers, trainers, business experts who regularly present their work, founders and project leaders, executive functions, internal HR called to facilitate sessions. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, healthcare, research, consulting and growing SMEs.
You structure a speech in little time with an opening that hooks and a closing that marks, you hold a fair oral posture even under stage fright, you manage unexpected events without losing your thread, and you adapt your pace by format (room, video, hybrid). You leave with a precise training plan for the following weeks and a self-evaluation grid to use after each public speaking.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs over two days with a communication coach in a small group. Format with concise theory, intensive exercises, filmed situations (with agreement), personalized debrief after each exercise. Each participant prepares and delivers several short interventions during the two days. Format alternates short technique inputs, intensive individual practice, peer feedback and trainer-personalized debrief. Beyond the course, you keep an exercise plan for the six following weeks and a clear self-evaluation grid usable after each public speaking event.
An executive committee intervention that goes from inaudible to structured. A conference pitch that holds attention instead of being forgotten. A client presentation in video that holds despite the remote format. The course addresses these three situations alternating intensive exercises, filmed role plays and debrief.
This training combines with impactful presentation (course 14083) for slides + delivery couple, voice mastery (course 14088) for in-depth vocal work, and non verbal communication (course 14080) for body posture. Many participants enroll in one of these courses to anchor durably.
Public speaking does not improve with one course alone. The two days create a strong inflection, but the lasting transformation comes from regular practice over the following six months. The course closes with a practice plan calibrated to your professional rhythm and opportunities.
Is the course filmed?
Optionally and with participant agreement. Video allows precise feedback on posture, voice and rhythm, but does not leave the room.
Need to be already at ease?
Not at all. The course welcomes beginners and experienced presenters wanting to refine. Exercises adapt to each level.
Difference with impactful presentation training?
Impactful presentation treats slides + delivery couple. Public speaking centers on oral and posture, with or without support.
Does it cover video public speaking?
Yes, video specifics (camera gaze, framing, remote silence management) are integrated in a dedicated sequence.
Do we work on personal interventions?
Yes, each participant arrives with an upcoming intervention or recent case. Exercises rely primarily on these real situations.
How many interventions will I deliver?
You deliver three to five short interventions during the two days, with systematic feedback from trainer and peers. The format is progressive: short and simple at the start, more demanding at the end.
What follows?
For more, ITTA proposes courses on storytelling, voice mastery and non verbal communication.
Can I rehearse a specific upcoming intervention?
Yes, the course allocates time for participants to rehearse a real upcoming intervention with personalized feedback before the live event.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Côtes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom for remote participants.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
