The Leader's Guide to Speaking With Presence: How to Project Confidence, Conviction, and Authority
- 40m
- John Baldoni
- AMACOM
- 2014
The key to leadership communication excellence!
A leader’s most important job is to communicate. Every day, whether in a meeting or a presentation, a water-cooler conversation or a formal speech, his or her ability to craft and deliver a clear message, one the audience will believe, is the tipping point between forgettable and transformational. The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presence is a concise tool kit containing more than 100 practical tips for creating and communicating meaningful messages with presence and authority. Readers will discover how to:
- Present their ideas clearly and provide context
- Radiate confidence and put the audience at ease
- Refine their delivery
- Use stories to inform, involve, and inspire
- Leverage the energy of any room
- Convey optimism tempered with reality to gain buy-in
- Turn PowerPoint presentations into performances
- And more
To be truly effective, a leader’s words need to ring true, and his or her delivery needs to be authentic. This handy little guide helps readers achieve the kind of genuine presence that leads to lasting trust and quantifiable influence.
About the Author
JOHN BALDONI, president of Baldoni Consulting LLC, is an internationally recognized executive coach, speaker, and author of a dozen leadership books. In 2013, Global Gurus International ranked John No. 14 on its list of the world’s top 30 leadership experts. John has written over 400 columns for the online sites of Harvard Business Review, Forbes and FastCompany.
In this Book
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The Sound of your Leadership Speech
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Present as a Leader
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Make the Audience Feel Welcome (and Banish Stage Fright)
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Stand up Straight (and Don't Forget to Breathe)
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Lead your Presentation, Don't have it Lead you
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Turn Powerpoint into Performance Art
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"Tell Me a Story"
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Project Optimism the Right Way
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Master the Art of Meeting and Mingling
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Leverage the Energy of the Room
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Avoid Nuance When you Speak Out Loud
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Develop your Leadership Presentation
