Practice Exercises

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Conference Room

Deliver a presentation to around 100 people in this popular training environment.

Media Scenarios Tour

Narrated tour exploring common media situations, from TV interviews to press conferences.

TEDx Styled Theatre

This TEDx-styled room allows you to practice for upcoming presentations at large venues.

Online Presentations

Practice how to deliver successful video-conferencing presentations on Zoom, WebEx, Teams, and more.

Impromptu Speech Training

Practice thinking on your feet by talking about a wide range of random images.

Analyze your Business Writing

Improve the readability of your written emails, memos, proposals, and more with this review tool.

Elevator Pitch

Practice pitching yourself, your company, or your product in two different elevator scenes.

Active Listening Exercises

A variety of listening exercises, including the Goldilocks exercise and a conference call.

Online Sales Pitching

Deliver an online sales pitch, answer client questions, receive feedback and self-evaluate.

Creating Stories

Practice creating a relevant story for your audience based on two changing images.

Business Ethics

Experience bullying, embezzlement, sexual harassment, misappropriation of funds, and taking credit.

Learning a Speech

This exercise helps you learn your speech, starting with the main points and then the sub-points.

Video-Based Interviews

Practice answering interview questions that have been asked at Google, P&G, Deloitte, and more.

Facilitator training

Practice delivering a training program to different audiences and venues. Get feedback on your performance.

Meeting Room

Practice giving a speech in this small meeting room, where you can load in your own slides to practice with.

Saying 'No'

Practice saying 'no' to your customer or boss using methods described by the psychologist Trevor Powell.

Media Ambush

Experience being ambushed by the media in a hotel lobby and practice answering hostile questions.

Press Conference

Practice presenting your press statement or other material at a small press conference.

Eye Contact Training

Improve your eye contact and review your performance with gamification and heatmaps.

Sound and Visual Distractions

Learn how to deal with sound and visual distractions, including mobiles phones ringing and lighting.

Lecture Hall

Deliver a speech in this large lecture hall. Load slides and use the speech analysis feature to track progress.

Different Perspectives

Interactive activities to get you considering alternative perspectives to situations.

Meeting Presence

Practice leading a meeting, presenting, and answering questions from the avatars.

In-Person Sales Pitching

Pitch to new sales prospects, answer questions and receive feedback on your performance.

Business Networking

Practice your networking skills and build stronger connections with people at two events.

In-Person Job Interview

Practice concise and effective communication while answering interview questions.

Radio or Podcast Interview

Practice being interviewed for the radio or a podcast. Answer questions and receive feedback.

Vocal Exercises

A strength training workout to warm up your voice and develop your pitch, pace, pause, and projection.

TV Interview

Practice answering interview questions in a BBC-styled TV studio. Learn what to say under pressure.

Literary Techniques

Learn about key literary techniques you can use in your next speech or presentation.

Down-the-Line Interview

Practice reading a transcript at different speeds, with just a camera in the room with you.

Linking Objects and Stories

Link objects in each room to the given phrase. For example, a laptop to being a great communicator.

Small Training Room

Deliver a short presentation in this classroom styled environment and receive feedback on how you did.

Workplace Mindfulness

Narrated guides on relaxation and breathing techniques, available in the Workplace Stress course.

Test your Speaking Pace

Practice reading a transcript aloud at different paces to better understand how different speeds sound.

How to Give Feedback

Practice giving both positive and negative feedback to your colleagues in the workplace.

Sexual Harassment Situations

Experience common sexual harassment situations from a first-person perspective.

Calculate Speech Length

Measure how long it will take to deliver your speech or presentation, based on the word count.

Pitching at a Trade Show

Practice selling your product to potential customers at a trade show booth.

Employee Feedback Examples

Review a variety of feedback examples to better understand how to give effective feedback.

Selling Generic Products

Practice selling products that lack unique features. Try pitching each generic product for 2 minutes.

Practice Creating Analogies

An exercise to train your lateral thinking skills under pressure by completing analogies.

Pitch Variation for a Speech

Measure the pitch variation of your voice when giving a speech to better engage the audience.

Impromptu Storytelling

Practice your storytelling by talking about a given topic and incorporating new words as you go.

Table Topics

Practice organizing your thoughts by answering questions under time pressure (game by Toastmasters).

Measure your Speaking Pace

Read the transcript or deliver your own speech to see a graph of how your pace varies over time.

Body Language Practice

Deliver a presentation and then watch yourself back to self-evaluate your body language.

Practice Answering Questions

Practice answering questions after your presentation using a 4 step process.

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