PowerSpeak: Engage, Inspire, and Stimulate Your Audience
- 4h 39m
- Dorothy Leeds
- Career Press, Inc.
- 2003
What is the secret to being a captivating and credible speaker? Never be boring! If you are boring, people will not listen. The central message and focus of PowerSpeak is the importance of engaging, stimulating, and maintaining an audience's attention.
This book focuses on the elements of speaking effectively from a design and a delivery perspective. Dorothy Leeds isolates these essential elements to assure that any speaker can gain and keep the audience's attention. She focuses on the trouble spots of any presentation and the six major faults speakers make.
This book also includes tips on the following:
- Breaking the fear barrier.
- Ten steps that guarantee a complete presentation.
- How to avoid weak, passive language and make humor your ally.
- Voice and speech exercises.
- How to handle the Q & A portion of a presentation.
- How to develop your own style and project positive body language.
- How to incorporate (or not incorporate) new technology into presentations.
About the Author
Dorothy Leeds is the author of The 7 Powers of Questions, and Smart Questions. She has been featured in popular magazines and newspapers like The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Money, and has appeared on The Tonight Show and Good Morning America. Dun's Business Month rated Dorothy as one of the top motivational speakers in the country. She gives over 100 presentations a year at conferences, and workshops nationwide.
In this Book
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How Public Speaking Adds to Your Power
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Break Through the Fear Barrier
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Preparation: The Source of a Speaker's Power
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Fault #1: An Unclear Purpose
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Fault #2: Lack of Clear Organization and Leadership
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Fault #3: Too Much Information
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Fault #4: Not Enough Support for Your Ideas, Concepts, and Information
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Fault #5: Monotonous Voice and Sloppy Speech
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Fault #6: Not Meeting the Real Needs of Your Audience
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Starting on the Right Foot: Openings That Capture Your Audience
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Bridging the Gap: Building Smooth Transitions
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Finish with Style: The Importance of Powerful Conclusions
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Professional Secrets of Question-and-Answer Sessions
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Visual Aids: When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
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Power Language: Turn Everyday Words into Persuasion
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Positive Body Language
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Harness the Power of Humor
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Stage Managing: Staying One Step Ahead of Murphy's Law
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How to Handle the Media Like a Pro
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How to be an Outstanding Audio- or Videoconference Leader
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How to Read a Speech or Script Effectively, No Matter Who Wrote It
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Ongoing Advancement: Use Meetings to Polish Your Public-Speaking Skills
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How to be Your Own Coach
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Delivering with Style: Individually or with a Team
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Your Final Source of Speaking Power
