The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence: How to Project Confidence, Conviction, and Authority

By John Baldoni

Whether in a meeting or a presentation, a watercooler conversation or a formal speech, a leader’s most important job is to.

Your idea may be groundbreaking. The potential profits might be exhilarating. The time to act may be right now, but if you’re not able to craft and deliver a clear message that doesn’t lead the audience to gain your perspective, that can be the difference between your pitch being transformational and becoming forgettable.

Executive coach and leadership expert John Baldoni provides this concise tool kit containing more than 100 practical tips for creating and communicating meaningful messages with presence and authority.

In The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence, you will discover how to:

• Present their ideas clearly and provide context
• Radiate confidence and put the audience at ease
• Refine their delivery
• Use stories to inform, involve, and inspire
• Leverage the energy of any room
• Convey optimism tempered with reality to gain buy-in
• Turn PowerPoint presentations into performances

When a leader learns to own the room with an authentic and persuasive speech, the audience will become putty in their hands. The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence helps leaders achieve the kind of genuine presence that evolves into lasting trust and quantifiable influence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Nov 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9780814433805

John Baldoni

John Baldoni, presidente de Baldoni Consulting LLC, es un coach ejecutivo reconocido internacionalmente, conferencista y autor. En 2011, Leadership Gurus International lo clasificó nº 11 en la lista de los mejores 30 expertos de liderazgo del mundo. Es colaborador regular en línea para CBS MoneyWatch, Inc y Harvard Business Review.  

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More Praise for The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence

Baldoni's latest book capsules the basics of presenting with authenticity and confidence. The book delivers clear, concise, specific action items to add to any leader's personal success plan.

—Dianna Booher, author of Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader and Communicate with Confidence!

"No leader can accomplish much without the ability to bring people together for common cause. John Baldoni provides us with a road map with how leaders can use the power of their communication to connect with people authentically. The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence also provides practical advice on how to make your presentations sing and your messages resonate."

—Mark Goulston, M.D., co-founder of Heartfelt Leadership and author of the best-selling book, Just Listen

"John Baldoni's new book, The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence, is full of well-honed, practical tips for successful public speaking that you can put to work right away. Keep this book handy and refer to it before you go on stage!"

—Dr. Nick Morgan, President, Public Words, Inc., and author of Give Your Speech, Change the World

Also by John Baldoni

The Leader's Pocket Guide: 101 Indispensable Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Any Situation (2012)

Lead with Purpose: Giving Your Organization a Reason to Believe in Itself (2011)

The AMA Handbook of Leadership (edited by Marshall Goldsmith, John Baldoni, and Sarah McArthur, 2010)

12 Steps to Power Presence: How to Assert Your Authority to Lead (2010)

Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up (2009)

Lead by Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results (2008)

How Great Leaders Get Great Results (2006)

Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders (2005)

Great Communication Secrets of Great Leaders (2003)

180 Ways to Walk the Motivation Talk: Proven and Practical How-To's to Energize Everyone in Your Organization (coauthored with Eric Harvey, 2002)

Personal Leadership: Taking Control of Your Work Life (2001)

180 Ways to Walk the Leadership Talk: The How To Handbook for Leaders at All Levels (2000)

THE LEADER'S GUIDE TO SPEAKING WITH PRESENCE

How to Project Confidence, Conviction, and Authority

John Baldoni

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Baldoni, John.

The leader's guide to speaking with presence : how to project confidence, conviction, and authority / John Baldoni.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-8144-3379-9 (pbk.) — ISBN 0-8144-3379-0 (pbk.)

1.   Leadership. 2. Public speaking. I. Title.

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