The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence: How to Project Confidence, Conviction, and Authority
By John Baldoni
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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.
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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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
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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.
HD57.7.B348944 2013
658.4'52—dc23 2013014940
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