Publisher's Synopsis
Do you know How to Talk to Anyone? Do you want to know How to Talk to Anyone?
You probably know the feeling. An important person comes up to you -- someone you look up to, maybe your boss, a politician or a pastor. Your heart races. You can't believe he is giving you the time of day. "How's the wife and kids?" he asks. Your world crumbles. You...have no wife and kids.
It doesn't have to be someone important who is speaking to us to make us feel important...or not. Even the person sitting next to us on the bus has the ability to make us feel significant, or, like we don't matter at all. Regardless of how we may try to wiggle around it, while the ultimate goal of your communication may be to inform or express, you are never going to succeed at doing so if the person you are talking to feels you have no value for him or her. If you think about it, your reaction is, no doubt, the same.
After that "important person" greeted you and got up to give his speech or sermon, did you want to listen to it?
Every (good) speaker knows that the best delivery is one that makes each person in the audience feel every word was just for him or her.
If the speaker bombed out when speaking to you one-on-one, chances are his speech was a bomb in your book as well. Why? You did not feel significant. You didn't matter to him and therefore, his matters don't matter to you either.
In the art of effective conversation as well as public speaking, it is imperative to take an interest in the person or persons you are talking to.
Know what they like and what they don't like.
Learn what interests them.
Above all, don't ask about their wife and kids if they don't have any. Do your homework and you'll ace the test!
When you are uptight about speaking, be it publicly or privately, people sense your fear. While you work on getting over your anxiety of talking through measures taken in this book, you can fake it until you make it. Just pretending that you are not so nervous will help relax the person or persons you are speaking to and it might calm you as well.
In this book we will discuss the following topics:
- The Basics of Communication
- Effective Oral Communication
- Body Language
- Public Speaking
- And Many More!
Are you excited? Look no more!
