Download or read book Speak with Power and Confidence written by Patrick Collins and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goosebumps, butterflies in the stomach, and pure cold fear: for most people, public speaking ranks high on the list of nerve-wracking activities. Will they be able to make their thoughts clear? Will they impress their audience...or bore, even alienate them? Help is on the way, with this comprehensive guide to improved communication skills for talks big and small. Speak with Power and Confidence offers tips on everything from preparing for a speech to sitting down for a job review to addressing a courtroom or the media. Speak with Power and Confidence reveals the all-important secrets of gaining absolute control of their image, their message, and their audience--whether it’s one person or a thousand. Learn how to: * grab listeners’ attention instantly * deliver presentations that help close a sale * gain the upper hand in any negotiation * convey a positive, professional image in job interviews There’s specific advice for a wide variety of situations, and trusted tips for both verbal and non-verbal communication. When originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1998 (as Say It With Power and Confidence), this was named one of the best business books of the year by Executive Summaries. A decade later, it remains the unsurpassed guide to honing your confidence in speech.
Download or read book The Power to Speak Naked written by Sean Tyler Foley and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power To Speak Naked helps everyone unleash the power to speak the raw naked truth. For those who want to advance their career, increase their wage, improve their social standing, and skyrocket their confidence, The Power To Speak Naked gives them proven strategies to crush their fear of public speaking and empowers them to be able to speak in front of any audience, anywhere, at any time. The Power To Speak Naked features techniques that will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking. Within its pages, Sean Tyler Foley presents easy-to-read tips that make it possible for anyone to deliver a presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable. He also presents proven actionable steps that will help anyone advance in their career and life.
Download or read book Speak with Impact written by Allison Shapira and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you know what to say and how to say it, people listen. Find your powerful voice, and step into leadership. Speak with impact. Every day, you have an opportunity to use your voice to have a positive impact -- at work or in your community. You can inspire and persuade your audience -- or you can distract and put them to sleep. Presentation styles where leaders are nervous, ramble, and robotic can ruin a talk on even the most critical topics. As your performances become weak, your career prosects start to dim. To get ahead and make an impact, you need to deliver well-crafted messages with confidence and authenticity. You must?sound?as capable as you are. Public speaking is a skill, not a talent. With the right guidance, anyone can be a powerful speaker. Written by former opera singer turned CEO and TEDx speaker Allison Shapira, Speak with Impact unravels the mysteries of commanding attention in any setting, professional or personal. Whether it’s speaking up at a meeting, presenting to clients, or talking to large groups, this book’s easy-to-use frameworks, examples and exercises will help you: Engage your audience through storytelling and humor Use breathing techniques to overcome stage fright Strengthen and project your voice by banishing filler words/uptalk Use effective body language and build your executive presence Compose a clear message and deliver confident, authentic presentations Learn to conquer fear, capture attention, motivate action, and take charge of your career with?Speak with Impact.
Download or read book Speak to Win written by Brian Tracy and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2008-01-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to speak with confidence and deliver winning presentations can accelerate your career, earn people's respect, and enable you to achieve your greatest goals. Anyone can learn to be a great speaker, just as easily as they can learn to drive a car or ride a bike. As one of the world's premier speakers and personal success experts, Brian Tracy reveals time-tested tricks of the trade that you can use to present powerfully and speak persuasively, whether in an informal meeting or in front of a large audience. In Speak To Win, you will learn how to: become confident, positive, and relaxed in front of any audience grab people's attention from the start use body language, props, and vocal techniques to keep listeners engaged transition smoothly from one point to the next use humor, stories, quotes, and questions skillfully deal with skepticism when presenting new ideas wrap up strongly and persuasively This no nonsense handbook is perfect for delivering talks that inform, impress, persuade and motivate. Brimming with unbeatable strategies for winning people over every time, Speak To Win lets you in on his most powerful presentation secrets in this indispensable, life-changing guide.
Download or read book How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People written by Leslie T. Giblin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a brass tacks approach to communication, How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People explains how to interact with others as they really are, not as you would like them to be. The goal is to get what you want from them successfully – be it cooperation, goodwill, love or security. Les Giblin, a recognized expert in the field of human relations, has devised a method for dealing with people that can be used when relating with anyone – parents, teachers, bosses, employees, friends, acquaintances, even strangers. Giblin shows step by step how to get what you want at any time and in ways that leave you feeling good about yourself. Moreover, the people who have given you want you want wind up feeling good about themselves, too. The result? Nobody gets shortchanged. It’s a win-win situation. Each chapter includes a handy summary, so there’s absolutely no chance of missing the book’s key points. You can also use these recaps to refresh your memory after you’ve finished the book. Instead of feeling miserable about your interpersonal skills, read this best-selling guide and learn to succeed with people in every area of your life.
Download or read book Speak with Courage written by Martin McDermott and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructors and students understand that fear of public speaking is one of the biggest challenges in the introductory course. And that’s where Speak with Courage comes in. Author and master teacher Martin McDermott has helped over 3,000 students overcome their fears and rise above speech anxiety by applying the right techniques. Speak with Courage offers 50+ diverse strategies—class-tested, rhetorical, practical, and fun—that help students at every stage of the speechmaking process, from getting started and choosing a topic to delivering the presentation and learning from the experience. Helpful and effective, this well-written and appealing text is the tool you need to get your students up and speaking—with confidence. Speak with Courage is also available as an inexpensive e-book, a great add on to any course with a public speaking component.
Download or read book Talking with Confidence for the Painfully Shy written by Don Gabor and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: s much about "speaking in public" as it is about "public speaking, " Talking with Confidence for the Painfully Shy can help even the most shy person speak up and speak out in any business or social situation.
Download or read book Speak Up with Confidence written by Jack Valenti and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public speaking is one of the most intimidating and important aspects of many jobs. As a one-time speechwriter for President Johnson, and in his current position as president of the Motion Picture Association of America, Jack Valenti has written and delivered speeches in all kinds of settings. Originally published in 1982, Speak Up with Confidence is an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to write and deliver a speech that people will listen to and remember.
Download or read book Speak With Confidence Sell With Authority written by Jane M Powers and published by Jane M Powers Pllc. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A favorite among entrepreneurs, Speak with Confidence, Sell with Authority is a book for those who both hate and love sales. With over 30 years experience, Jane M Powers uses her straightforward, big-hearted style to guide thousands in transforming their message to money from any platform, with her "Speak to Profit" Formula. After decades of successful speaking, coaching, and perhaps most of all, her real-life experience founding and running multi-million dollar businesses, Jane appreciates that success is truly about the power of your message. Learn to speak with confidence and sell with authority from any platform, whether it is video, podcasts, the big stage, webinars, or networking events. Turn your message to money with big impact and generate big income, whether it is an audience of 1 or 1,000 for 7 seconds or 7 hours. Deliver a powerful, heartfelt, influential message in just 17.5 seconds that will have the audience sit up and pay attention like never before. Learn to influence others and mobilize your ideal clients to take action with a simple formula. Discover how to connect, capture, and close your ideal client, time and time again with authenticity and confidence. Many people are not closing the sale because they cannot speak the buyer's language. Speak with Confidence, Sell with Authority shows you how to identify not only your C.O.R.E. Code, but the C.O.R.E. Code of your buyer. Being able to speak the right language of your ideal clients will close them time and time again. Understand how to overcome the toughest of objections and get them to their YES!
Download or read book Speak with Passion Speak with Power written by Pamela Gilbreath Kelly and published by Pamela Kelly. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information on becoming an extraordinary communicator. This book helps you discover how to: replace fear with relaxation and alertness; use the 'big purpose' to shift focus from yourself; organise your ideas by asking the right questions; support your points with a simple formula; and, design your talk to attract different learning styles.
Download or read book Speaking Easy written by Michael Brown and published by . This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speak Without Fear written by Ivy Naistadt and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of us, public speaking is at best a chore marked by great anxiety and at worst a potential career stopper. Ours is a time when the ability to communicate in front of individuals or groups in all types of business and other situations is becoming paramount. Speak Without Fear offers a unique, practical process for combating the stage fright that plagues us every day in these situations. Unlike other books on public speaking, Speak Without Fear goes beyond the external techniques, such as how to breathe properly and keep eye contact, to delve deeply into the reason for your performance anxiety. It gets to the root of what's giving you the sweats so you can identify what's in the way and work through it to communicate naturally and comfortably before audiences of any size. Ivy Naistadt's easy-to-follow, step-by-step program will help you: Identify the degree and type of your nervousness Pinpoint the incidents and issues that, directly or indirectly, cause you fear and loathing in the spotlight Develop and master a technique for over-coming your anxiety that's adaptable to your level of experience and need Use your new skills to shine in a variety of situations -- whether speech making, interviewing, auditioning, or presenting No matter how anxious you are about going before an audience -- any audience, whether it's 1 or 1,000 -- Speak Without Fear will give you the tools to speak powerfully and persuasively.
Download or read book Speak with Confidence written by Albert J. Vasile and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical and conversational, 'Speak With Confidence' is filled with clever anecdotes and applications related to current events which enhance the learning experience and build confidence for developing public speaking skills. The accessible writing style and the relevant discussion topics promote public speaking as an everyday experience that will help to decrease speaker apprehension.
Download or read book Speak to Influence written by Susan Berkley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foolproof results of a polished and professional verbal delivery illustrate how the voice can be used to achieve greater confidence, credibility, professional success, and sales in this handbook on applying voice-control techniques used by voice-over artists in business communications. From a comprehensive voice evaluation to a step-by-step voice improvement plan, a range of activities provide information on how to improve diction and articulation, speak with greater warmth and enthusiasm, and make a lasting impression. Practical tips include how to leave a voice-mail message that is 40 percent more likely to be returned and how to make outgoing messages sound professional. Insider secrets about the influence of the spoken word will help speakers acquire and practice the skills necessary to sound more credible, tell great stories, and add a more musical quality to speech by mastering voice pitch and inflection.
Download or read book Speak With Confidence written by Dianna Booher and published by McGraw-Hill. Reprinted by Booher Research Institute. This book was released on 2002-12-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every presentation you make—whether to 6 or 6,000—is an opportunity to advance your ideas and your career! Speak with Confidence! gives you the tools and techniques you need to make the most of that public speaking opportunity or that business presentation. You will learn how to: --Establish rapport with any audience --Present with passion and persuasion --Organize your ideas for maximum impact --Plan your presentation structure quickly --Add anecdotes to improve retention --Tell great stories to engage listeners and drive home your point memorably --Use vocal variety --Think on your feet to handle tough question-and-answer sessions with credibility --Use visuals to support rather than sabotage your message --Perfect your presentation with the "finishing touches" that keep your audiences engaged from start to finish. Communication guru and internationally recognized speaking coach Dianna Booher delivers hundreds of powerful, battle-tested strategies and presentation tips guaranteed to transform even the most fainthearted professional into a riveting public speaker or business presenter. Dianna has earned the highest distinction in the professional speaking industry, having been inducted into the prestigious Speaker's Hall of Fame. Successful Meetings magazine has also named her to its list of the "Top 21 Speakers for the 21st Century." In Speak with Confidence!, Dianna shares the ideas and expertise that she has taught at more than half of the Fortune 500 companies. The same speaking skills can help you take your career to the next level.
Download or read book The Power of Speaking Your Truth written by Harinder Ghatora and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you keep quiet even when you have something to say? Do you struggle to stand up for yourself? Do you find it difficult to articulate your needs? Do you find yourself going along with other people’s plans even when they don’t suit you? In The Power of Speaking Your Truth, author Harinder Ghatora presents a self-help guide to empower you to find your true voice. Offering a journey of self-discovery and positive change, this step-by-step handbook shows you how to move from passivity and disempowerment to assertiveness and confidence. It discusses: • what it means to speak your truth—and some common misconceptions that people have; • how and why you learned to not speak your truth; • the mental, emotional, and physical consequences of not speaking your truth; • the underlying thought patterns and beliefs that prevent you from expressing yourself fully and firmly; and • a simple, but highly effective model for facilitating change that you can learn and implement. The POWER of SPEAKING YOUR TRUTH helps you identify, challenge, and transmute the fears and unhealthy beliefs that prevent you from communicating clearly and effectively. The ability to speak your truth is a prerequisite for leading a happy, healthy, and empowered life.
Download or read book Gravitas written by Caroline Goyder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why some people earn attention and respect when they speak and others don't? The secret to their success can be summed up in one word: gravitas. In this revolutionary new book, leading voice coach and speaker Caroline Goyder reveals how to speak so others will listen. Through simple techniques to build your natural gravitas, you will learn how to express yourself clearly with passion and confidence to persuade, influence and engage listeners. By being grounded in your values and capabilities, you will gain the authority needed to make people sit up and pay attention. Each chapter guides you step-by-step through practical techniques and exercises to give you the skills for great presentations, productive meetings and persuasive pitches. You'll overcome anxiety, learn how to deal with difficult people and feel calm and in control when public speaking. An essential tool for the modern workplace, Gravitas will transform the way you think about yourself and your powers of communication.
