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A practical guide to public speaking covering such typical speeches as a keynote, panel participation, workshop, and more. In addition to YagerAAasAazAs own extensive speaking experiences, the author includes excerpts from interviews or communications with other speakers. There are chapters on protocol issues that speakers have to be concerned about as well as 12 of the most dreaded situations you might encounter as a speaker, and how to handle each one. Includes references, resources, and an Appendix; indexed.

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Publié par	Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.
Date de parution	01 janvier 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781938998324
Langue	English

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S ELECTED O THER B OOKS BY D R . J AN Y AGER
N ONFICTION Work Less, Do More: The 14-Day Productivity Makeover (2 nd edition) Productive Relationships Grow Global When Friendship Hurts Friendshifts:The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives Effective Business and Nonfiction Writing Road Signs on Life’s Journey 365 Daily Affirmations for Happiness 365 Daily Affirmations for Time Management 365 Daily Affirmations for Creative Weight Management 365 Daily Affirmations for Friendship Business Protocol: How to Survive & Succeed in Busines Who’s That Sitting at My Desk?: Workship, Friendship, or Fo? 125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life Creative Time Management for the New Millennium Career Opportunities in the Film Industry (with Fred Yager) Career Opportunities in the Publishing Industry (with Fred Yager)
F ICTION
The Pretty One Untimely Death (with Fred Yager) Just Your Everyday People (with Fred Yager) The Cantaloupe Cat (illustrated by Mitzi Lyman)

Copyright © 2013 by Jan Yager, Ph.D.
All rights reserved. This book is copyright protected. It may not be duplicated or shared, except for brief quotes for the purpose of reviewing the work, without written permission of its publisher.
Published by: Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. 1127 High Ridge Road, #110 Stamford, CT 06905 USA http://www.hannacroixcreekbooks.com hannacroix@aol.com
ISBN: 978-1-889262-65-9 (hardcover) ISBN: 978-1-889262-68-0 (trade paperback) ISBN: 978-1-938998-32-4 (Ebook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yager, Jan, 1948- The fast track guide to speaking in public / Jan Yager.
p. cm. ISBN 978-1-889262-65-9 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-889262-68-0 (trade pbk.)
1. Public speaking. I. Title. PN4129.15.Y344 2013 808.5'1--dc23
2012026943
CONTENTS
1. Getting Started as a Speaker
2. What It Takes to Be an Excellent Speaker
3. What Makes Speaking Such a Unique Way to Educate, Inform, or Entertain
4. What Every Speech and Speaker Needs
5. 12 Secrets for Giving a Terrific Speech
6. Cultural Considerations When You Speak
7. The Keynote
8. Workshops, Webinars, and Other Types of Speaking Engagements: Panels, Facilitating, Toast, Roast, Commencement Address, Eulogy
9. The Mechanics of Speaking
10. How to Handle the Top Twelve Challenges You May Face as a Speaker
11. Speaking for Authors
12. Giving TV/Cable Interviews
13. In Conclusion/Summing Up
Glossary
References
Resources
APPENDIX
New Speaking Engagement Inquiry Form (Sample)
Confidential Pre-Seminar Survey (Sample)
Keynote Preparation Work Sheet (Sample)
Feedback/Evaluation (Sample)
Index
About the Author
Chapter 1
GETTING STARTED AS A SPEAKER
W hen I spoke in Kolkata, India before approximately two-Whundred fifty mutual fund managers, I knew that I was connecting with the audience without even having to review the video clip that the meeting planner posted at www.youtube.com because I could sense it in the room. Although I couldn’t see many faces because of the lighting and the way the podium was set up, I could see at least a few people right in the front and it was their connection to my words that kept me going.
That speaking engagement is a wonderful example of why I speak. Not only did I have the opportunity to share my expertise and insights about work relationships, time management, and achieving greater productivity and work-life balance, but I also got to travel to an amazing part of the world. I met extraordinary men and women, and even children and teens since the meeting planner asked me to also speak at a Rotary Club in Kolkata where there were many children and teens performing and in the audience.
Everyone knows that today you need excellent communication and computer skills to get ahead in business. Being well versed in business protocol will certainly help as well. But you can add to that list another basic competence that can make or break your career: your presentation skills. Being able to research, write, and deliver a memorable and effective speech, whether it’s a ten-minute presentation on a panel or a forty-five minute keynote address at an international conference, is a skill that should accelerate your professional, and even your personal, success.
The exciting part about speaking in public, once you learn to embrace the unpredictable nature of the experience, rather than fear it, is that you do have to "think on your feet" and to learn to be flexible. You might use the same opening story before several different audiences and it works again and again, but you get the instinct, this time, just as you’re about to speak that there’s something going on with the particular audience in this room that tells you, that cries out to you, "Use a different story."
And you follow your instinct and you find out later that it was the right decision because there was something in that "signature" story that would have offended the majority of people in that specific group.
You can master public speaking! This book will help you with that goal by providing information as well as true-life anecdotes and examples from my own professional and personal experiences, the research I’ve done, as well as interviews I’ve conducted or communications I’ve received just for this book with outstanding speakers from around the world.
Every speaker, even those commanding six figures for just one speech, started where you are right now: at the beginning. And if you’ve been speaking, for work or professionally, and you think you could use a refresher course, or just some input from someone new, this book may just be what you’re looking for as well.
In his New York Times article, "Social Anxiety: New Focus Leads to Insights and Therapy," psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman noted that "the most frequent fear in one survey of 3,000 adults was found to be speaking before a group." 1
There’s also an old cliché that public speaking is feared more than death. I don’t know where that notion came from or what study it is based upon, but I do know that, while none of us can do anything about death, we can all do something about how comfortable we are speaking in public.
Are you afraid to speak in public?
If you are asked to make a speech, do you find yourself getting butterflies in your stomach from the moment you accept an invitation to speak until you give your address months, weeks, days, or even hours later?
If you are not fearful of speaking in public, do you still feel that your speaking skills could use some improvement based on feedback you’ve received or your own self-assessment?
You can get over your fear of speaking and improve your speaking skills.
Fortunately the basic techniques that you need to be a skilled speaker can be taught; becoming more secure in your speaking ability should help to decrease your fear of speaking. You will learn essential public speaking techniques in this book. Despite what you may have thought till now, being a dynamic speaker is rarely something that happens at birth. Yes, some may be more comfortable in front of an audience than others. But you can learn how to welcome, and not dread, getting in front of an audience and speaking in public. The tools that professional speakers use to craft and deliver a memorable speech are there for you to learn and use.
Few professionals "wing it," even if you think, sitting in that audience and listening to their speech, that that’s what they’re doing. They’ve planned, practiced, and prepped for that presentation, whether it’s five minutes, half an hour, or an all-day seminar. It took hard work to make that speech look as if it were extemporaneous and unplanned! Some speakers have been working on their craft for years, even decades. In this book, you’ll discover the secrets of professional speakers; if you apply these secrets, you will be on the path to becoming a more confident speaker in your own right with the pride of knowing that your speech made a difference in the lives of those in your audience. It is with that goal in mind that I pledged to research, write, and publish this book.
It is called The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public because the goal of this book is to help the novice speaker to fast track his or her career. You can do that by avoiding as many of the pitfalls of public speaking as possible by being as prepared as you can be through research, related to a specific topic that you are speaking on as well as on speaking in general, such as through reading this book or attending a speaking workshop or working with a coach, and by the practice that is advocated in these pages.
For the more experienced speaker, this book provides a useful review of your craft as well as exposure to the speaking techniques and experiences of others from whom you may learn as you improve your own content and style of each speech that you deliver.
The founder of the National Speakers Association, Cavett Roberts, espoused the belief that working hard at the craft of speaking would help a speaker’s presentation skills. The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public will hopefully make that hard work more fun and pleasant because you’ll be guided by a seasoned pro along the way. Everything I’ll be teaching you I’ve learned through four decades of speaking throughout the U.S. and internationally as well as training in public speaking going as far back as a course I took in public speaking as a college senior.
In this guide on how to prepare, and deliver, various types of speeches, you will discover basic steps that apply when you are a presenter, whatever the length of your program. You will also be reminded that you will want to develop your own speaking style; and, as you learn some of the proven techniques for overcoming stage fright or speaker fear, you will be able to apply those suggestions to your own situations.
I will also share with you some innovative ideas for how to get extra mileage out of your speech by recording it, rewriting