The Hip-Pocket Guide to Speaking in Public

This pocket-sized manual is a handy tool for people who speak to audiences. Essential for novice and occasional speakers, even professional speakers will glean insights and information from every page. A law school Professor of Persuasion and Advocacy and an acclaimed national speaker, author Marc Garfinkle states the not-so-obvious about gaining and keeping your audience's attention and making the speaking experience a pleasant one. In this quick-moving, humorous manual, Garfinkle offers simple strategies for focusing your thoughts, speaking comfortably to groups, improving your vocabulary with words you already know, enhancing your credibilty, reducing your need for notes, recovering from a crash-and-burn, and so much more. "The Hip-Pocket Guide to Speaking in Public" even includes a few oral exercises you can "do safely at home." An easy-to-carry personal coach for any person who addresses audiences.