How to Be the Life of the Podium: Openers, Closers and Everything in Between to Keep Them Listening

Rating:
Summary: A Good Handbook for Ideas
Review: This is more of a reference book than a how to give a speech book. It give lots of useable one liners, proverbs, fables, tales and how to pick on people tastefully. A lot of it is useable but more importantly it give you the insights of how and why they work so that you can create your own. Your own will better fit the situation. It gives 15 excellent mini speech bits that can be adapted to your own use. The author provides excellent advise on rehearsal of speeches. The main points are: do lots of it and do it out loud-- and much more about rehearsal. My own modest objection to the author's speech style is recommending or offering weak segues into stories and examples. If your are famous like Winston Churchill, Bob Dole or Will Rogers, you can be self deprecating. For us nobodies, we have to speak with clarity, conviction, well and short. We may not get another chance. If you have to apologize or make excuses for something you are about to say, you are making a mistake.(This refers to the repeated style of how the author recoends segues. The author emphasizes that you should spend a lot of time on the opening and closing. However, a lot of the closings seemed rather weak. Bottom line the book is worth getting a hold of as a good reference.

Rating:
Summary: A Good Handbook for Ideas
Review: This is more of a reference book than a how to give a speech book. It give lots of useable one liners, proverbs, fables, tales and how to pick on people tastefully. A lot of it is useable but more importantly it give you the insights of how and why they work so that you can create your own. Your own will better fit the situation. It gives 15 excellent mini speech bits that can be adapted to your own use. The author provides excellent advise on rehearsal of speeches. The main points are: do lots of it and do it out loud-- and much more about rehearsal. My own modest objection to the author's speech style is recommending or offering weak segues into stories and examples. If your are famous like Winston Churchill, Bob Dole or Will Rogers, you can be self deprecating. For us nobodies, we have to speak with clarity, conviction, well and short. We may not get another chance. If you have to apologize or make excuses for something you are about to say, you are making a mistake.(This refers to the repeated style of how the author recoends segues. The author emphasizes that you should spend a lot of time on the opening and closing. However, a lot of the closings seemed rather weak. Bottom line the book is worth getting a hold of as a good reference.