High impact speeches : how to create and deliver words that move minds
Heller, Richard2003
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Crafting good speeches has become an essential business skill and a component of any successful career. There are many different skills involved in speaking well, but you need to know how to choose and organise words - you need to be able to write. The author has written speeches for political leaders.
Main title:
High impact speeches : how to create and deliver words that move minds / Richard Heller.
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Imprint:
London : Prentice Hall Business, 2003.
Collation:
xv, 191 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
High Impact Speeches: how to write and deliver words that move minds Introduction - "I'm making a speech" 1. Do I Have To? When to accept; when to decline and opportunities to avoid. 2. What You Must Research Audience and setting. How to make it there, make it relevant and know your audience. 3. I Came Here for A Result Choosing the topic, choosing the title. How to get what you want to achieve 4. Speech Architecture How to design a great speech that's easier to write and easier to deliver 5. Writing It Down: Talking It Out Why write a draft in full. A speech as a journey. 6. Tricks & Techniques: Simple Speech and Weird Words How to get the most from language 7. Tricks & Techniques: Getting Familiar With Your Audience How to make your subject familiar and engaging. 8. Tricks & Techniques: Variety & Vitality How to add colour, rhythm, pace and emotion to your speech 9. Perswaysion How to win over the disinterested, doubtful or hostile 10. The Final Edit How to revise and refine, line by line. 11. Rehearse, and Again I Say Rehearse Rehearsal is an endless process of discovery and development. 12. DeliveryOvercoming stage-fright, moving and standing, using your voice well. 13. Vision OnA visual aid should be the servant of a speech, not its master. 14. Speaking to the World Using the media to get your message beyond the room Appendix: Some High Impact Speeches, and What Makes Them Work From John Donne to the Chairman of a Management Consulting firm.
ISBN:
9780273662020 (pbk)
Dewey class:
808.51808.51
LC class:
PN4121
Language:
English
BRN:
200654
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