What is the secret to being a captivating and credible speaker? Never be boring If you are boring, people will not listen. The central message and focus of PowerSpeak is the importance of engaging, stimulating, and maintaining an audience's attention.

This book focuses on the elements of speaking effectively from a design and a delivery perspective. Dorothy Leeds isolates these essential elements to assure that any speaker can gain and keep the audience's attention. She focuses on the trouble spots of any presentation and the six major faults speakers make.

This book also includes tips on the following:

Breaking the fear barrier.
-- Ten steps that guarantee a complete presentation.
-- How to avoid weak, passive language and make humor your ally.
-- Voice and speech exercises.
-- How to handle the Q & A portion of a presentation.
-- How to develop your own style and project positive body language.
-- How to incorporate (or not incorporate) new technology into presentations.

Questions...

? demand answers
? stimulate thinking
? give us valuable information
? put us in control
? get people to open up
? lead to quality listening
? get people to sell themselves

They're an essential tool of the seeker and the problem-solver, and in our personal and professional lives, they can make the difference between getting what we want and going without. Questions have power-and by harnessing that power, we can change our world. This unique book reveals the seven powers of questions-and shows how to use them most effectively. Learn how questions can improve relationships, help determine what people really want, uncover opportunities, persuade others, and get more out of every business or personal encounter.

Called "a must" by Norman Vincent Peale, this definitive guide from the author of The 7 Powers of Questions shows how to ask for the most from your staff -- and get it