Public Speaking

From the organization of a speech to knowing your audience, your vocals, and the delivery, this essential guide covers an entire course on public speaking yet is handy enough to reference throughout your speech preparation. With more preparation comes more confidence and with added inspiration throughout this guide you will stand to deliver.

Public Speaking Skills For Dummies introduces you to simple, practical, and real-world techniques and insights that will transform your ability to achieve impact through the spoken word. You'll discover how to overcome your nerves, engage your audience, and convey gravitas--all while getting your message across clearly and concisely.

Written by a business leader with Asperger Syndrome, it includes guidance and hands-on tools for preparation, research and delivery of successful speeches and presentations. It addresses all the key areas that can cause particular difficulty for people with Asperger Syndrome such as coping with anxiety, interpreting the facial expressions of your audience, awareness of your own body language as projected to others, sensory overload issues caused by the speaking environment, and surviving post-speech networking and social events.

This textbook provides concise information, classroom exercises, homework assignments, and speeches to enable college students to master public speaking. Chapter topics include speech anxiety, delivery, subject selection and audience analysis, thesis sentences, motivational appeals, organizing and outlining, introduction and conclusion methods and more.

This book focuses on ways to unleash what we already have inside us: the ability to communicate our message through powerful, and even world-changing, presentations. Read this book and learn to conquer your fear of public speaking by: focusing on the audience, delivering ideas convincingly, presenting a confident image, , and energizing an audience.