Power Speak: Engage, Inspire, and Stimulate Your Audience

by Dorothy Leeds

What is the secret to being a captivating and credible speaker? Never be boring! If you are boring, people will not listen. The central message and focus of PowerSpeak is the importance of engaging, stimulating, and maintaining an audience's attention. This book focuses on the elements of speaking effectively from a design and a delivery perspective. Dorothy Leeds isolates these essential elements to assure that any speaker can gain and keep the audience's attention. She focuses on the trouble spots of any presentation and the six major faults speakers make. This book also includes tips on the

Genres: Communication, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1988

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 2 out of 5]

Only got to page 57 of this for my SCM 470 capstone class.

[Lychee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helped with preparing my dissertation defense. Helped me come up with some ideas for a more interesting opening (although I experienced technical glitches when it came time to present, it worked slick during a practice run). Lots of good ideas for both polishing something up at the last minute, although increases my motivation to begin planning talks much earlier than has been my wont. I plan to pick up a copy to add to my collection.

[Ayoola Efunkoya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book by my standard. Dorothy Leeds' ideas packed in Powerspeak towards the end of the 1980's still work for me more than 2 decades after.

[Aisha Adnan · Rating 1 out of 5]

ملزمه لمساق الاتصال الشفهي ، ترجمه رديئة جداً .. :) / امتحاني بعد خمس ساعات

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent book on engaging stimulating and maintaining an audience's attention.

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

The only book I truely recommend for Public Speaking.