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This book is a collection of the transcripts of 26 interviews that will give you insider tips and suggestions on how to start or grow your business as a speaker. And it's not just about professional speaking. It doesn't matter what you do for work, just about all of us have to speak as part of our business or marketing plans to do our job successfully or grow our businesses stronger. First, here's where this book came from.

You are about to speak... You're terrified! Heart racing, hands wringing, stomach churning. You're not just speaking, but speaking in public. You can't get out of it now. You've got to leave the safety of your chair, trek to the front, turn around and face your audience. What to do, where to go, where is the emergency exit? STOP. Breathe. You are in safe hands. You know your stuff, you have a powerful message to share. With Ges as your guide you will rediscover your natural confidence. You will let go of your anxiety and engage your audience powerfully.

From bargains in the Big Apple to the bustling bazaars of Istanbul, from in-store to interactive and online to mobile, neuromarketing pioneer Dr. David Lewis goes behind the scenes of the "persuasion industry" to reveal the powerful tools, techniques, technologies, and psychologies seeking to stimulate us all to buy more - often without us consciously realizing it.

Do you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The 50 easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation.

In No Hard Feelings, you'll learn how to navigate the emotional minefield that is the modern workplace, and express your feelings and identity at work. After all, the financial success of the 21st century depends on it. Without the ability to communicate and correct stress, we risk burnout. Without emotions, we cannot make decisions, influence others, or be creative. As our jobs become more collaborative, complex, and stressful - as well as the centre of our identities - effectively embracing emotion will only become more important.

How to Design (and Deliver) TED-Worthy Presentation Slides is a short, practical and step-by-step guide to creating sexy slides. It is based on an extensive analysis of some of the best TED speakers, such as Brene Brown, Daniel Pink, Amy Cuddy, Larry Lessig, Seth Godin, Bill Gates and many, many more.

What makes for a successful board of directors, and how is it accomplished? In only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction, learn the answer to this question from the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide, who helped bring American Power Conversion public in 1988, a company that recently sold for $6.1 billion.

Wisdom without passion is a Ferrari with no gas in the tank. Passion without wisdom is a tricked-out 57 Chevy with no steering wheel. Baby Boomers have relied on wisdom to pave the way to success. Education, knowledge, investing strategies, 401(k)s, real estate leverage, and carefully contrived career paths were expected to lead to success in the golden years. Seeing the overall failure of that formulaic approach to life, younger generations today have relied on passion as the guiding principle for their version of success.

That’s what your colleagues or clients will say once you have facilitated a workshop using what you will learn in this book by nationally recognized facilitator and award-winning author Eric Meade.

Learn how to tell a good story with Your Story, Well Told! Jam-packed with some of the best storytelling strategies, this manual gives creatives the confidence bump they need to make the sale, land the client, propose a toast, or impress their date. The following is (not) a work of fiction. We've all got stories to tell - but how do you make your story the best story? In Your Story, Well Told!, The Moth veteran Corey Rosen inspires you to get on stage and tell your story.

In this book, Public Speaking: The Best Tactics to Master the Art of Speaking and Presenting in Public, you will be provided with valuable tools and techniques that will allow you to achieve success in any occasion in which you are called to speak in front of a crowd.

Our society and workplaces have become overly polarized. While once we could agree to disagree, we now avoid or even cancel those who have opinions differing from our own. I help leaders prevent and overcome polarization to craft a healthy workplace culture by illustrating . . . How people respond in conflict Engagement levels and what leads to quiet quitting The resulting culture if we don’t fix this problem How to foster diversity of thought Behaviors preventing polarization Steps for overcoming toxic division—if you’re already thereDiscussion questions at the end of each chapter ...

Scrum has been practiced more regularly in the past few years. It's important to learn more about it and understand what you're doing. Have you heard about it before? Are you curious about what scrum and agile are all about? Do you want to know all the specifics about this emerging, trendy phenomenon? Then this is the book you'll need. It's short but powerful, and it teaches you all the basics you need to understand. So let's not waste any time and begin right now!

Get on the express for first impression. Know how to charm and connect with people upon meeting them, and create a lasting impression. Do you get butterflies in your stomach whenever you enter a room full of people? Do you become nervous with the thought of having to engage with a fellow stranger? Do you sweat like a pig at any attempt of connecting with others? Don't worry, you're not alone! This is all too common. It's normal that we all want to make a good first impression upon other people.

Meetings have become a pain point for millions, wasting time, money, and energy. But in reality, meetings are at the heart of effective organizations. In Make Meetings Matter, business consultant Paul Axtell reaffirms the importance of meetings and reimagines them using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, this revolutionary book will teach you to redesign meetings to achieve results, move projects forward, and build relationships that make remarkable work possible.

Fortune 500 strategist and best-selling management author Ken Tucker explores the challenging skill sets required to navigate conflict and crucial conversations effectively. Drawing upon decades of experience in the corporate and government worlds, Tucker teaches leaders how to say what they really need to say and say it right, so their people and organizations execute the results they want and need.

Leadsology®: Marketing the Invisible is written for independent professionals who want to enjoy a predictable weekly flow of high quality new client inquiries.

Pitching sucks. The word alone conjures up dull PowerPoint decks, pushy tactics, and shouty emails. But it doesn't have to be that way. Danny Fontaine, an expert in innovative pitching, presents a game-changing guide that transforms pitching into an exciting, creative and enjoyable experience. Drawing from his billion-dollar pitching experience, this book delves into the psychology of connection, storytelling mastery, and practical methods and frameworks for persuading any audience, backed with anecdotes of some of the very best, and worst, pitches of all time.

Today, the very word ‘meeting’ conjures up images of time wasted in badly lit, airless offices. People sitting around tables unsure why they are there and wishing they were somewhere else. Hour after hour. Day after day. ‘Will There Be Donuts?’ is business expert David Pearl’s first book and he draws on his 2 decades of consulting with some of the biggest companies in the world to re-educate the reader on how to hold meetings and, crucially, how to make them great.

When I coach speaking under pressure, my specialty is to help the speaker make a real and significant change during one private session of less than two hours. I learned this from the culmination of my life's journey, as told in these true memoirs of my real-life experiences being an actor, a spy, and a licensed private eye. There are no unrealistic techniques or made-up theories in this book. Every solution given to you has been actually done by me or witnessed in others. Everything is proven, and everything works - tried and true.