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Swim With the Sharks - Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition by Harvey Mackay A super salesman, a sportsman, a popular public speaker and motivator, self-made Minnesota millioniare  Harvey Mackay has evolved some of the most dynamic techniques for soliciting and closing a sale ever devised.   In this book he reviews the secrets of his success.

In The SpotLight: Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing by Janet E. Esposito M.S.W. In The SpotLight is a real gift to people experiencing any degree of fear or discomfort in speaking or performing in front of others, either in formal or informal settings.  Janet Esposito demonstrates sensitivity, wisdom, and passion in guiding her readers on a path to overcoming their fears and discovering a new-found freedom and power in self-expression.  Her enthusiasm for her topic makes for easy and lively reading.  You will want to read In The SpotLight if you have any anxiousness in speaking or performing in front of others!

Say It with Presentations: How to Design and Deliver Successful Business Presentations by Gene Zelazny Presentation techniques from the bestselling author of Say It With Charts.  A top-notch business presentation is equal parts information and entertainment. Say It With Presentations helps managers create the perfect mix of information, graphics, pacing, and "off-the-cuff" humor.  It includes hands-on information on everything from defining the situation to developing the right mix of visual aids,  to interest your audience without overpowering them.  Since 1985, Gene Zelazny's bestselling Say It With Charts has given presenters the building blocks for dynamic presentations.  Now, his graphics-rich Say It With Presentations guides the reader step-by-step through the process, utilizing up-to-date business audience research to deliver dozens of practical tips, from communication masters including Tom Peters; tested techniques to set the perfect time, right from the start; tips and tools for using the latest audio/visual technology.

Power Talk: Using Language to Build Authority and Influence by Sarah Myers McGinty Ph.D Show up on time, work hard, do well, and rise up the corporate ladder?  Maybe.  Actually, oral communication is the most crucial ingredient in advancement on the job.  In Power Talk Sarah Myers McGinty analyzes the social and psychological elements of speech in the workplace, helping readers hear who's in charge and talk their way ahead.   Fast trackers match the right speaking style to the situation and develop a corporate voice that comes across loud and clear.  From the greeting on the answering machine to the voice mail message that gets a call back, from how to navigate through a department meeting to how to command center stage, Power Talk helps readers become their own best spokesperson and advocate and guarantees they'll be heard.

The 3-Dimensional Voice: A Fun & Easy Method of Voice (The Wilson Voice Series)  by Joni Wilson

'I Can See You Naked': A New Revised Edition of the National Bestseller on Making Fearless Presentations by Ron Hoff, Barrie Maguire A complete guide to public speaking describes the qualities of a good presenter and discusses openings, nervousness, boredom, audiences, question handling, and more.

7 Steps to Fearless Speaking by Lilyan Wilder This seven-step program for improving oral communication skills tells how to improve the voice itself, structure a presentation, use props, and demonstrate conviction.  Lilyan Wilder is a communications consultant who has worked with the world's most notable public figures, broadcast correspondents at ABC,  CBS,  NBC, and CNN, and many Fortune 500 companies.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Boardroom: Using Humor in Business Speaking by Michael Iapoce This is the first book to offer detailed advice on the effective use of humor in business situations such as presentations, meetings, or seminars.  The author is a speech writer who has written for the CEOs of AT&T, Xerox and Monsanto.  He has also written comedy for entertainers such as Rodney Dangerfield.  Presents the basics of writing humorously in a clear, step-by-step fashion, and reveals invaluable tricks of the trade for creating one's own custom-tailored jokes using techniques employed by professional comedy writers.

Speaker's Lifetime Library by Anistatia Miller (editor) Most people name public speaking as their greatest fear--it outranks even death for that coveted position.  If you're like most, your knees turn to water at the prospect of standing before your fellows and giving a speech, but it needn't be that way. Preparation builds confidence, and confidence is all it takes to win over a crowd.  The Speaker's Lifetime Library will help you prepare for any speech on any occasion with its four extensive sections: "The Speaker's Reference Guide," "Apt Comparisons," "The Day and Date Book," and "The Special Occasions Book."

Speaking Globally: Effective Presentations Across International and Cultural Boundaries by Elizabeth Urech Faced with multicultural and multilingual work forces and a global economy, it's essential to be able  to communicate effectively with any audience.  This book goes far beyond making a successful  presentation, giving a step-by-step approach to making speeches or presentations across a wide range of international and cultural boundaries.

Say It Like Shakespeare: How to Give a Speech Like Hamlet, Persuade Like Henry V, and Other Secrets from the World's Greatest Communicator by Thomas Leech A guide to conducting business presentations, using the communication and persuasion style of famous playwright, William Shakespeare.  Takes examples from Shakespeare's characters and plays to illustrate the qualities and skills an excellent communicator must have, helping readers empower  themselves to speak in front of any audience.  Whether it's to make a sale, rally a team, or ask for a raise, the ability to frame a clear, compelling message, deliver it with conviction, and hold an audience's attention to the end, is the essence of effective  communication.  Featuring powerful how-tos,  illustrated with pithy examples, insights, and witticisms from Shakespeare's works, Say It Like Shakespeare is an enjoyable look at what goes into successful communication.  Among other things, readers learn how to: gather vital audience intelligence; develop a sound action plan; organize a winning message; persuade with dress, voice modulation, and body language; read audiences' changing moods; win them over with pithy support material; manage feedback and results.

How to Speak, How to Listen by Mortimer Jerome Adler Adler takes some of the classical Greek writers ideas about persuasive speaking and "updates" them, makes them more understandable, and provides concrete illustrations of how it is done.  He helps you to better grasp the process of outlining, and provides an example of a speech he had given that employs the "methodology" of the text.

Dazzle 'Em With Style: The Art of Oral Scientific Presentation by Robert R. H. Anholt Anholt covers everything you need to know about making a good scientific presentation (in any discipline): how to structure a talk, how to present your data (on slides or overhead transparencies), how to use body language, how to answer audience questions.  He illustrates his tips with real-life examples (photos and drawings) and amusing anecdotes, so you can see the logic behind his suggestions and know what to avoid doing too.  The section on poster presentations was very helpful.   It includes a drawing of a real poster so that you can see an example of a good layout.  The book is well-organized, easy to follow and helps you avoid so many of the pitfalls that commonly plague scientific presentations.

No-Brainers on Public Speaking VHS "The No-Brainer series is clearly up on the most current ways to use their medium to entertain and inform." -Billboard Magazine

Public Speaking Made Easy VHS People hate to speak in public! In fact, public speaking ranks as one of the major fears of people everywhere.  Now, you won't have to lose anymore sleep about having to make a speech.  This video outlines some key strategies that will make public speaking easy and fun.  We will cover how to structure and outline the parts of a speech and we'll provide tips for better speech delivery.  Whether at a meeting or in the classroom, be poised and make your next speech exude self-confidence.

Standard Deviants: Public Speaking (2000) VHS Whether you fear or crave the chance to speak in public, learn how to organize ideas, analyze an audience and make them sit up and listen.  Deliver your speech in style and influence your audience with a clear  message, sufficient supportive materials and appropriate anecdotes.  Whether you’re cramming for a speech or preparing ahead, these sure-fire methods are certain to win your audience!

Standard Deviants TV: Public Speaking (2000) VHS Learn how to overcome the primary public speaking issue, FEAR!  Learn how to organize ideas, deliver an effective speech and relax!

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