What to Say When. . .You're Dying on the Platform: A Complete Resource for Speakers, Trainers, and Executives

by Lilly Walters

Provides information needed to organize, write, and deliver effective, entertaining speeches, from installations to toasts and roasts. This book pinpoints possible speaking contingencies, from failed electricity to a bored audience, and for each one tells how to prevent it, what to do about it, and what to say about it.

Genres: Business, Self Help, Communication, Psychology, Humor

314 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1995

Reviews

[Hamsa Selvam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully structured and humorous with practical illustrations. One of my favorite responses was something that goes like-
when a photographer is distracting your presentation, you say ' Try and make me look like Paul Newman will you?' by Gene Perret.

[Sandeep · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great resource for anyone who likes to (or is learning to) speak proficiently in public.

[Jane Beard · Rating 1 out of 5]

Holy Cow. This book is seriously dated, and the advice you get here is from an era we no longer live in. The idea of it is great. But many of these ideas, in today's world, will cost you serious credibility. Some may cost you your job. There's far too many horrible jokes (that would have been fine in the 1950's) and useless self-deprecating lines. Blaming the audience for poor behavior. I get it: the book is almost 30 years old. About the only reason I see to read this book (which came highly recommended to me) is for the anthropology of it.