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

A leader's most important job is to communicate. Every day, whether in a meeting or a presentation, a water-cooler conversation or a formal speech, his or her ability to craft and deliver a clear message, one the audience will believe, is the tipping point between forgettable and transformational. The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence is a concise tool kit containing more than 100 practical tips for creating and communicating meaningful messages with presence and authority. Readers 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; and more.