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.

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 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.

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!

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.

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.