The Top Performer's Guide to Speeches and Presentations


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Speeches and presentations are a facet of almost everyone's career, from professional speakers to executives to teachers. Top performers just like you struggle every day to not only get their message across, but convince the audience to change their actions according to that message. The Top Performer's Guide to Speeches and Presentations is your essential handbook full of tips for crafting effective, engaging presentations that accomplish your goal, be it selling a product or service or teaching a new system. Discover: The four cornerstones of dynamic speaking and communication How to best use your eyes, voice, and body language Relating to your audience through story Tools for preparing a masterful Powerpoint presentation Developing your own signature style Tips and hints to ensure that your audience responds with action




Speak for Leadership


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Learn the powerful techniques that will boost your presence and influence. Are you as successful as you'd like to be in meetings, presentations, speeches, and videoconferences? Do you achieve maximum impact and influence? Whatever your job title, when you speak you're the leader in the room. Learn how to influence others with poise, presence, and power. In this revolutionary book, actor and executive speech coach Dr. Gary Genard reveals the secrets of engaging, persuading, and inspiring any audience. Discover how cutting-edge research in neuroscience and emotion, storytelling, body language, voice, and audience dynamics can transform the way you move listeners. Gary Genard is the speech coach for multinationals, financial firms and healthcare organizations, entrepreneurs, the U.S. Congress and United Nations, governments worldwide, and nonprofits and small businesses. He is the author of Fearless Speaking, the book on overcoming speech anxiety named in 2019 as "One of the 100 Best Confidence Books of All Time," How to Give a Speech, and Speaking Virtually. Now he presents the definitive and comprehensive approach to public speaking performance. If you've ever wanted to speak with leadership presence, this is the book that will show you how! This guide to more profitable speaking will show you: How to fully develop your natural talents. Secrets for greater clarity, conciseness, and confidence. How to be comfortable and dynamic in front of large audiences. Ways to hook any audience within sixty seconds. Storytelling tips to move listeners emotionally. Essential qualities of speaking for leadership. An actor's techniques for commanding a stage. How to achieve virtual presence . . . and much more! "Speak for Leadership is an extraordinary book! It's a strikingly original approach to speaking strategically yet with a strong sense of performance." - Rebecca Brewster, President and COO, American Transportation Research Institute.




Adviser Secrets How to Become a Top Performer


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In today's fast paced changing business world, professionals must work smarter than ever to improve their performance. What worked in the past doesn't work today. Clients are more knowledgeable and demanding. Competitors are more aggressive and cutthroat. Technical mastery of your vocation will only take you as far as an "average" performer. Within the pages of this book, the author reveals a revolutionary approach called the "Adviser Success Model" and walks the reader step-by-step through 13 of the most important communication skills used by top performers. As a top performer you will: earn more money; get that new job or promotion; increase your client base; close more deals; increase your gross sales revenue; improve your profit margin; retain clients for life; and much more. This book is intended for business owners, consultants, sales and service professionals who serve clients on a daily basis. Traditionally these are outside clients (sometimes they may be referred to as customers in your organization). Recently Ive also found tremendous success implementing the art of client communication with professionals working with internal clients, that is those professionals who provide services for others within the same organization. It doesnt matter where you fit in the above description. The tips and techniques I provide will help you become a master communicator and top performer in your profession. I will focus on the most critical communication skill areas and provide you with successfully proven techniques. This book will cover: Questioning How to ask powerful, smart and insightful questions Listening How to become an effective listener Objection Handling How to eliminate client objections and resistance Preparing A Presentation How to inspire and motivate an audience Delivering A Presentation How to persuade your client to your recommendations Planning A Meeting How to plan the most effective meeting Facilitating A Meeting How to run the most effective meeting Words and Stories How to use words and stories to get your point across The Written Word How to utilize the most overlooked written communication Memos And Reports How to develop powerful reports and memos Gatekeeper Barriers How to get client gatekeepers to help you win Self Promotion How to promote yourself to the top of your profession Household Name How you can become a household name in your industry Although there have been books published on many of these topics in the past, this book contains new approaches that focus on the critical client and business challenges you are facing today. The primary goal and objective of this program is to help you build your foundation for becoming a top performer in your profession.




Talk Like TED


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Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a successful presentation. Now public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo explores what makes a great presentation by examining the widely acclaimed TED Talks, which have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking. TED ? which stands for technology, entertainment, and design ? brings together the world's leading thinkers. These are the presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking. In his book, Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations. Gallo's step-by-step method makes it possible for anyone to deliver a presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable. Carmine Gallo's top 10 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Talk Like TED will give anyone who is insecure about their public speaking abilities the tools to communicate the ideas that matter most to them, the skill to win over hearts and minds, and the confidence to deliver the talk of their lives. The opinions expressed by Carmine Gallo in TALK LIKE TED are his own. His book is not endorsed, sponsored or authorized by TED Conferences, LLC or its affiliates.




Speaking Across the Curriculum


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Speaking Across the Curriculum gives teachers ready-made speaking and listening activities that can be infused into any curriculum. Over 50 activities help teachers encourage debate and discussion and teach students speaking and listening skills. Students will learn how to outline a speech, build active listening skills, develop a media presentation, persuade an audience and speak spontaneously. Activities also help students analyze and evaluate arguments and sources, including web sites.




The Dynamic Manager's Guide to Marketing & Advertising


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Businesses that thrive-and the managers who run them-have one thing in common: they make their decisions based on meeting their customers' needs. They are good marketers. Dave Donelson distills the experiences of hundreds of such business owners-and his own as an entrepreneur and consultant-into this guide to attracting customers, persuading them to buy, and turning them into customers for life. Learn how to increase the return on your advertising investment by following a few basic rules of the game. Find out what makes your customers tick and why they buy from you-or your competition. Discover how to build your profits on a solid foundation of good marketing skills. In the first two sections, managers and entrepreneurs just like you tell how they handle the nitty-gritty details of creating ads, buying media, designing promotions, and all the many other tasks of good marketing. Insightful case studies of small companies across the country-retailers, manufacturers, service providers, and more-help you see how marketing drives successful business strategy. As a bonus, section three contains twenty-three promotions and ad campaigns you can use. Study them, run them, or adapt them to your specific needs-they've all been proven to work for businesses just like yours. The Dynamic Manager's Guide To Marketing & Advertising isn't about theory-it's about how to succeed in the real world of small business.




The Freelancer's Guide to Corporate Event Design: From Technology Fundamentals to Scenic and Environmental Design


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Freelancer's Guide to Corporate Theatre and Event Production (tentative title) will bring you up to speed on the ever changing and growing industry of Corporate Theatre. Written by one of the industry's leading designers, this book uses a candid and straight-forward style to guide you through the process of designing a successful event. Learn the fundamentals of venue selection, rigging, lighting, audio, video, and scenic design with informative diagrams and detailed illustrations. With the help of this book you will learn how to plan, design, and execute events of any size. Additionally, you will be armed with a strong knowledge of common mistakes, tips and tricks, and industry standards that will allow you to build and train a production team prepared for just about anything.







Million Dollar Speaking: The Professional's Guide to Building Your Platform


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Make your move into, or improve your position in, the powerful world of professional speaking If you think you have what it takes to speak professionally, or you've already been doing so with insufficient reward, now is the time to make your move. Bestselling business author and Professional Speaking Hall of Fame member Alan Weiss offers the inside advice you need to turn your talent into a high-paying career—from honing your delivery skills to building a business. In Million Dollar Speaking, you’ll learn the critical skills of Dealing with difficult crowds Creating powerful speeches Targeting high-potential markets Creating a "star" reputation Setting fees that reflect your outstanding value Perfecting platform skills—making ¬them the best in the business Expanding your business through diversification Weiss has packed the guide with tips, resources, helpful examples, and checklists that make it easy for you to keep a record of your progress. Whether you're a trainer, workshop leader, or consultant, Million Dollar Speaking has what you need to get on the paid public-speaking circuit in no time.




Speaking Persuasively


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To succeed in business, your message must be heard, understood and remembered. This book, with its combination of practical tips and case studies from the experts, will help you to become a more powerful and persuasive speaker, whether pitching for business or presenting to the Board. As a consultant in speech training, I can recommend it unreservedly. Clare Willis, Senior Consultant, Speak First Training, London YOU CAN BECOME A CONFIDENT PUBLIC SPEAKER Speaking is one of the most powerful ways of influencing others at work and in life. And yet for many of us, speaking in front of large or small groups of people is one of our greatest fears. Speaking Persuasively shows you how to convert anxiety into effective communication. LEARN HOW TO GIVE DYNAMIC PRESENTATIONS AND SPEECHES Using real examples, Speaking Persuasively shows you how to hone your speaking skills in business and politics, in the classroom and in the community. It explains how to order your material, attract the audience's attention (and keep it), control your voice and adapt your techniques for different situations. It also includes practical advice on making a successful business pitch, communicating across cultures and handling the media. Speaking Persuasively is for anyone who wants to become a more persuasive and more impressive public speaker. Valuable information that will make the first-timer more comfortable and the gifted public speaker more persuasive. Shari Armistead, Senior Media Advisor to Queensland Minister for Education Strips away the mystery of the mass media performance. A useful guide for those on both sides of the microphone. Ellen Fanning, television and radio presenter