Public Speaking: Face It, Don’t Force It

Public Speaking: Face It, Don’t Force It features public speaking trainer Elliot Essman’s key rules for public speaking success. Based on three decades of experience coaching clients in public speaking skills, Elliot gives major insights into the techniques and attitudes good speakers use to reach their audiences, as well as many of the traps that can cause them to fail.Learn to position yourself strategically, for specific audiences, as well as in your speaking career in general. Overcome your fear of speaking, and use your own vulnerability as a powerful communications tool. Learn to craft your speech humor to be appropriate and super-effective, even for the most serious of topics. Build an arsenal of speech content that works for your own particular purposes. Learn how to spot speech materials and techniques that simply do not work. Most important, develop the capability to be “original,” speaking with your own voice.Not your typical “how-to,” Public Speaking: Face It, Don’t Force It concentrates on fine-tuning your own attitude to the function of addressing groups, building your leadership skills, fulfilling your responsibility to the audience, and so much more. The book includes 22 “Real World—Real Speaker” vignettes that will put you into actual front-line public speaking situations.The goal: you speak, you get through to your audience, you build your effectiveness, and you thrive in the process. Read more