Taking Center Stage: Masterful Public Speaking Using Acting Skills You Never Knew You Had

by Deb Gottesman, Buzz Mauro

A definitive guide to public speaking draws on the unique insights and techniques of professional actors to explain how to enhance one's communication skills, offering helpful advice on how to define one's presentation objectives, creating a memorable speech, using basic rehearsal techniques, overcoming stage fright, and more. Original.

Genres: Communication

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

Reviews

[Nick]

This is a gentle introduction to using acting skills in public speaking. Most of it is simple, obvious stuff like having an objective, a purpose for what you do, and is the sort of thing you pick up in a beginning acting class. Good fun, not terribly original or insightful.

[April]

SUPER good, so far

[Benjamin Rubenstein]

I'm asking for a rehearsal-podium for my apartment for Hannukah after reading this treasure.

[Pyramids Ubiquitous]

Fairly obvious advice for giving fairly inauthentic speeches.

[Gerardo Martinez García]

Muy buen libro de técnicas para hablar, no solo discursos si no en cualquier tema. Muestra buenos ejemplos y te anima a tener seguridad en ti mismo.