Publisher's Synopsis
Are you a person who has some experience of speaking in front of people? Are you someone who now wants to improve your basic presenting skills and learn how you can transform yourself into a competent public speaker? If so, How to give an Advanced Speech is the bookfor you. In it, you will learn the following: 1. The essential skills needed to be competent in speech making and delivering memorable speeches, such as good preparation, selection of material and thorough rehearsal. 2. How to use your voice to enhance your speeches. 3. How to use your body language, eye contact and hand gestures to powerfully support the messages you are conveying with your voice, in your speeches. 4. How you can add word pictures in your speeches, to evoke all the senses in your audience, so that they are fully engaged with what you say. 5. How you can use humour to make your speeches more entertaining. This book is full of exercises to help you practice different public speaking skills. At the end of the book, you will put all the advanced skills you have learnt into a highly polished speech.