Publisher's Synopsis
When you're speaking in front of people, your body language speaks as loudly as your words. So be sure your body makes you look powerful. Do not stare down at your feet, but make eye contact with the audience. Also, stand up straight while gesturing freely with your arms and hands.
This book offers practical advice and simple strategies for developing and honing your oral communication skills not only as you speak at the podium, but also as you interview for jobs and facilitate meetings for work, for school, and for the organizations to which you belong. Speech anxiety can be crippling for many people and the author offers some great insight into how to overcome the fear of speaking in public. In addition, the book covers how to master your nonverbal communication, what you should know about your audiences before you present before them, and how to strategically include slide presentations and other visual aids in your presentations. Thankfully, powerful public speakers are made, not born, which means that if you commit to studying and practicing the techniques in this book, you will be on your way to success as a public speaker!
