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Talk Your Way to the Top: How to Address Any Audience Like Your Career Depends On It

ISBN: 007140564X
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 95

Authors: Kevin Daley, Laura Daley-Caravella

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• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• Talk Your Way to the Top - How to Address Any Audience Like Your Career Depends On It
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Afraid? You Are Not Alone
• How Universal Is the Fear?
• The First Three Steps in Overcoming Fear
• Key Learnings for Taking the First Steps in Overcoming Your Fear
• Chapter 2: How to Stand Up and Speak as Well as You Think
• The Impact of the Audience
• How a Speaker Impacts an Audience
• The Five Forms of Evidence
• Key Learnings for Speaking as Well as You Think
• Chapter 3: How to Present Up the Management Chain
• Key Preparation Questions
• Formatting Your Presentation
• Key Learnings for Presenting Up the Management Chain
• Chapter 4: How to Be a Luncheon Speaker
• Formatting Your Talk
• The Story - The Right Way
• The Story - The Wrong Way
• Key Learnings for a Luncheon Presentation
• Chapter 5: How to Handle Audience Pressure
• QA Preparation: Questions, Answers, and Procedures
• When the Question Is a Challenge
• Hostility in a Larger Audience
• Key Learnings for Handling Audience Pressure
• Chapter 6: How to Orchestrate the Successful Business Lunch
• Using Lunch as a Business Tool
• Who Pays?
• Key Learnings for Orchestrating the Successful Business Lunch
• Chapter 7: How to Sell Your Ideas
• The Presentation Story: Increasing Vicks Sales
• Using the Organizational Format
• Using Evidence to Support the Idea
• Key Learnings for Putting Together and Delivering a Talk to Sell Ideas
• Chapter 8: How to Speak on the Spot
• The Right Way
• Organize Ahead of Time
• Key Learnings for Speaking on the Spot
• Chapter 9: How to Move a Group to Action
• The Demonstration
• Key Learnings for Delivering a Presentation to Move a Group to Action
• Chapter 10: How to Brief the Boss
• The Briefing
• The Bigger Picture
• Key Learnings for Briefing the Boss
• Chapter 11: How to Deliver Bad News
• The Importance of Trust
• Delivering Bad News - The Format
• Applying the Process to an Actual Speech
• Key Learnings for Delivering Bad News
• Chapter 12: How to Run a Meeting So Well Your Participants Will Applaud
• Building Successful Meetings from the Start
• Meeting Logistics and Rules
• What about Support Materials?
• Scheduling the Meeting
• Key Learnings for Running a Meeting Well
• Chapter 13: How to Disagree with Your Boss without Getting Fired
• Why Start a War?
• How to Get the Boss to Listen
• Key Learnings on How to Disagree with Your Boss and Not Get Fired
• Chapter 14: How to Persuade Through a Talk
• The Power of Passion in Speech
• Key Learnings for Delivering a Talk to Persuade
• Chapter 15: How to Emcee an Event, Introduce Speakers, and Present Awards
• Your Second Responsibility - To Introduce the Speakers
• Your Third Responsibility - Presenting Awards
• Key Learnings for How to Emcee a Meeting, Introduce a Speaker, and Present Awards
• Chapter 16: How to Deliver a Talk to Inspire
• Example One: A Tale of Two Little Girls
• Example Two: Breaking the Sound Barrier
• Key Learnings for Delivering a Talk to Inspire
• Index
• Index_B
• Index_C
• Index_D
• Index_E
• Index_F
• Index_G-H
• Index_I
• Index_J-K
• Index_L
• Index_M
• Index_N-O
• Index_P
• Index_Q
• Index_R
• Index_S
• Index_T
• Index_U-V
• Index_W
• List of Figures
• List of Sidebars