What to Say When You're Dying on the Platform

Informationen zum Autor Lilly Walters (Glendora, CA) is the executive director of Walters International Speakers Bureau, which accesses 36,000 speakers, conducts seminars, and publishes Sharing Ideas, the world's largest magazine for the professional speaking industry. She is the author of Secrets of Successful Speakers and coauthor of Speak & Grow Rich. Klappentext Provides information needed to organize, write, and deliver effective, entertaining speeches, from installations to toasts and roasts. This book pinpoints possible speaking contingencies, from failed electricity to a bored audience, and for each one tells how to prevent it, what to do about it, and what to say about it. Zusammenfassung Provides information needed to organize! write! and deliver effective! entertaining speeches! from installations to toasts and roasts. This book pinpoints possible speaking contingencies! from failed electricity to a bored audience! and for each one tells how to prevent it! what to do about it! and what to say about it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction.Speech Design and Preparation.Speech Delivery.Tips on Working With Specific Kinds of Audience Types.Problems with the Audience.Room and Equipment Problems.Other Tips on Specific Kinds of Speeches.Examples of Simple Group Exercises and Audience Participation Devices; Glossary of Professional Speaking Terms.Glossary of Celebrity Speakers Who Have Contributed Material Just for This Book.

Product details

• Authors: Lillet Walters, Lilly Walters, Lily Walters, Walters Lilly
• Publisher: McGraw Hill Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1995
• EAN: 9780070680395
• ISBN: 978-0-07-068039-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 225 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Business Books; Business Books
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Business & management, Public speaking guides, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Speaking in public: advice and guides, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc