Speak with Impact

Speak with Impact
Author: Allison Shapira
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814439365

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.

Speaking for Impact

Speaking for Impact
Author: Shirley E. Nice
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In her book, Speaking for Impact: Connecting with Every Audience, Shirley Nice offers a lifetime of practical advice to all who have ever experienced feeling out of touch with an audience. Whether a small or a large group, a classroom, a sales meeting or a formal presentation, this book reveals the essentials for getting your message across with impact. Speaking for Impact begins by showing each student how to identify his/her own unique impact potential. With a vibrant and colorful style, the text then shows how to identify the similarities and differences within audiences and gives specific guidelines for reaching everyone in diverse groups made up of a range and variety of people. Drawing from her own experience with hundreds of groups, Nice challenges students to examine the changing nature of today's audiences and the new demands put on speakers. Nice's concluding counsel explains how to create an atmosphere of safety and space and energy for the dynamic connectedness that produces maximum audience impact.

Speaking Mastery

Speaking Mastery
Author: David Hutchison
Publisher: Wordclay
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Business presentations
ISBN: 160037185X

Presentations are more than speeches. They include meetings, sales calls, customer-service calls, pitches to acquire new clients or business, marriage proposals, job interviews, family discussions, and so on. If you are currently employed or considering entering or reentering the workforce, you will need to sharpen your presentation skills. Whether you meet with one, five, or a thousand people, you are making a presentation. Whether it's in person, or on the phone, or even on paper, you are making a presentation. If asked to deliver a toast at your brother's or sister's wedding, you are making a presentation. Speaking Mastery is your crash course in presentation success. Your strength in presentation will either catapult you to a more successful level or expose your lack of preparation and commitment to achieving higher standards. Speaking Mastery can provide you with the tools for success!

Speaking with Strategic Impact

Speaking with Strategic Impact
Author: Kate LeVan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2017-05-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998975900

Speaking with Strategic Impact is for business people who make their living-or their mark-through presentations long and short. You'll get specific strategic and tactical advice to keep you on the mark in your presentations and meetings-and differentiate you from the vast majority of business presenters.

Speaking to Influence

Speaking to Influence
Author: Laura Sicola
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948787314

When you speak, whether on stage, in a meeting or on the telephone, do you command the room confidently and naturally? Are you seen as a true leader? Do you get the full respect you deserve and the results you want?If you're like most people, your response to most of these questions is, "No, but I want to!" The reason is in our "blind spot": the gap between how we think we come across when we speak, and how we actually come across to others. Have you ever had an argument in which someone angrily says, "It's not what you said, it's how you said it!"? The truth is that it's both- and that's the blind spot. If you've ever been there, then this book is for you. Full of stories, examples, and exercises for you to try, Speaking to Influence helps you take the blinders off and see where you're getting in your own way so you can create strong, positive relationships, establish your best reputation, and achieve your greatest goals and purpose.

Delivering Dynamic Presentations

Delivering Dynamic Presentations
Author: Ralph Hillman
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

While important ideas are any speech's most vital requirement, they can be either given life by a skillful delivery or obscured by a poor delivery. Professional speaker and university professor Ralph Hillman offers a methodology for both beginning and advanced speakers to use their voice and body to enliven any speech. This concise text provides detailed information about, insight into, and suggestions for improving one aspect of the speaking process - the one that often has the biggest impact: delivery.

Public Speaking Skills For Dummies

Public Speaking Skills For Dummies
Author: Alyson Connolly
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1119335574

Project self-assurance when speaking—even if you don't feel confident! When you speak in public, your reputation is at stake. Whether you're speaking at a conference, pitching for new business, or presenting to your Executive Board, the ability to connect with, influence, and inspire your audience is a critically important skill. Public Speaking Skills For Dummies introduces you to simple, practical, and real-world techniques and insights that will transform your ability to achieve impact through the spoken word. In this book, champion of public speaking Alyson Connolly takes you step by step through the process of conceiving, crafting, and delivering a high-impact presentation. You’ll discover how to overcome your nerves, engage your audience, and convey gravitas—all while getting your message across clearly and concisely. • Bring ideas to life through business storytelling • Use space and achieve an even greater sense of poise • Get your message across with greater clarity, concision, and impact • Deal more effectively with awkward questions Get ready to win over hearts and minds —and deliver the talk of your life!

The Book on Public Speaking

The Book on Public Speaking
Author: Topher Morrison
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1683503511

“One of the most powerful professional speakers in America . . . reveals how he’s earned millions onstage, on camera and in business” (Steve Siebold, CSP, past chairman of The National Speakers Association’s Million Dollar Speakers Group). If you look at the trends of over thirty years ago in fashion, technology, architecture, and any other industry, what was cutting edge back then has become cliché and grossly out of date now. But in the speaking industry, most people get up and still walk, talk, and sound like the 1980s motivational speakers of yesteryear. The Book on Public Speaking takes a head-on approach and challenges the status quo for business leaders that speak in front of their staff, board of directors, and the public. After reading this book you will be privy to the most current methods for speaking to an audience for maximum impact in today’s more sophisticated and skeptical culture. If you are the type of business leader who has achieved a level of success in life and feel compelled to share your story with the world, don’t lessen that impact by imitating outdated speaking techniques. Instead, break the mold of the speaker cliché and tap into a speaking style that is authentic, packs a punch, and leaves the audience wanting more. “I learned some amazing presentation techniques from Topher. I’m using them right now. They’re awesome. You can’t tell because you’re reading this.” —John Heffron, winner of The Last Comic Standing “Morrison is crazy good at training you how to communicate on-camera so that your business gets more attention.” —James Lavers, professional speaker, founder, “Selling from the Screen”