Best Public Speaking Reference Books
Here you will get Best Public Speaking Reference Books For you.This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
1. How Highly Effective People Speak: How High Performers Use Psychology to Influence With Ease (Speak for Success)
Author: by Peter Andrei
B089CSW3Y6
English
244 pages
Why do we think what we think? Think we know what we think we know? Believe what we believe?Like what we like?Do what we do? Why do others trust or distrust us? Respect or disrespect us? Listen to or ignore us?
Reach out to or neglect us?Like or dislike us? Praise or slander us? Believe or doubt us?That’s not all… Why do others follow our lead or stand in our way? Give us opportunities or send them elsewhere? Support our striving for success and appreciate our message or toss it and us aside?
Decades of cutting-edge (but unheard-of) scientific research presents an answer… Because hidden, little-known secrets of psychology influence everything about us… Neglecting them is swimming upstream. You can’t change minds, win friends, or influence people. You can’t earn undivided attention or get the respect you deserve.
You undermine your professional image, stagnate your career, and destroy your confidence until communication makes you anxious. You don’t deserve this.Neither did I. I remember wondering, “Why do people never support my ideas? Why am I drowning in a sea of ‘sorry, maybe later’ (AKA never)?
2. Eloquence: The Hidden Secret of Words that Change the World (Speak for Success)
Author: by Peter Andrei
B08GRSMLZC
English
257 pages
Why do people ignore our ideas or support them? Agree with our positions or undermine them? Tune out when we speak or give us undivided attention? Why do most of us fail to persuade others? Fail to formulate convincing arguments?
Fail to speak with confidence and fail to get our way? And why do some lawyers and legal professionals quickly soar above the competition, their words carrying immense weight, while others struggle to communicate effectively? 53 little-known, cutting-edge, and revolutionary (but practically unheard-of) scientific studies present a virtually unknown answer based on irrefutable empirical evidence…The answer?
If you can’t speak with eloquence, your words don’t count. This undermines your professional image and stagnates your career, holding you back and sabotaging your ideas. Eloquent words outperform their weak counterparts. Eloquent words convince.They compel.They captivate.They persuade.
They move hearts and minds. And they can change the world. What are the hidden secrets of words that change the world? This concise new release by an Amazon best-selling author dissects the little-known “eloquence secrets” of two of the most impactful messages in the history of American political persuasion.
3. ISE The Art of Public Speaking
Author: by Stephen Lucas
McGraw-Hill Education
English
1260548090
Fully updated for the thirteenth edition, the award-winning The Art of Public Speaking offers a time-tested approach that has made it the most widely used college textbook on its subject in the world. Seamlessly coordinated with Connect, McGraw-Hill Education’s pathbreaking online program, it supplies a proven set of teaching and learning tools that is without parallel among public speaking books.
For experienced instructors, The Art of Public Speaking presents a solid, fully customizable foundation and an abundance of teaching aids from which to choose, allowing for complete teaching flexibility in the course. For novice instructors, its wisdom, steady hand, and unmatched ancillary package instill confidence and build success in the classroom from day one.
4. Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great
Author: by Carmine Gallo
B077DZV3NW
June 5, 2018
English
As technology threatens to displace countless jobs and skills, the ability to communicate is becoming more important than ever. This book is full of examples to help you get better at transporting your thoughts and emotions into the minds of other people.
Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl SandbergHow to master the art of persuasionfrom the bestselling author of Talk Like TED. Ideas don’t sell themselves. As the forces of globalization, automation, and artificial intelligence combine to disrupt every field, having a good idea isn’t good enough.
Mastering the ancient art of persuasion is the key to standing out, getting ahead, and achieving greatness in the modern world. Communication is no longer a soft skillit is the human edge that will make you unstoppable, irresistible, and irreplaceableearning you that perfect rating, that fifth star.
In Five Stars, Carmine Gallo, bestselling author of Talk Like TED, breaks down how to apply Aristotle’s formula of persuasion to inspire contemporary audiences. As the nature of work changes, and technology carries things across the globe in a moment, communication skills become more valuablenot less.
5. Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
Author: by Carmine Gallo
St. Martin's Griffin
English
288 pages
Learn the public-speaking secrets of the world’s top mindsIdeas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams.
TED Talks have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking. TEDwhich stands for technology, entertainment, and designbrings together the world’s leading thinkers. These are the presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking.
Public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations.
6. TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
Author: by Chris Anderson
Mariner Books
English
288 pages
New York Times Bestseller Catnip for all the TED fans out there. Publishers WeeklyThe most insightful book ever written on public speaking …A must-read. Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times best-selling author of Give and Take and Originals Since taking over TED in 2001, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted talks can be the key to unlocking empathy, spreading knowledge, and promoting a shared dream.
Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience’s worldview; it can be more powerful than anything in written form. This invaluable guide (Publishers Weekly) explains how the miracle of powerful public speaking is achieved, and equips you to give it your best shot.
There is no set formula, but there are tools that can empower any speaker. Chris Anderson has worked with all the TED speakers who have inspired us the most, and here he shares insights from such favorites as Sir Ken Robinson, Salman Khan, Monica Lewinsky and more everything from how to craft your talk’s content to how you can be most effective on stage.
7. Speak With No Fear: Go from a nervous, nauseated, and sweaty speaker to an excited, energized, and passionate presenter
Author: by Mike Acker
English
181 pages
1733980008
When you think of public speaking, do you get nervous, anxious, or even sweaty? Would you prefer never to give a presentation? Do you want to gain confidence in your communication and beyond? This book can help you. You don’t have to be afraid any longer.
You don’t have to let communication anxiety keep you from your goals. While my upcoming book will give advanced strategies to master the game of speaking, this book allows you to get in the game and get started. Through this book you will learn 7 strategies you can begin today.
These strategies will give you a new perspective, they will prepare you, and they will give you actions to practice. As you implement these strategies, your fear will begin to fade. It can easily seem like everyone is a gifted speaker when you watch TED talks or compare yourself to skilled co-workers giving presentations.
Don’t get caught up in the costly comparison trap. Instead, take action to improve your ability and to overcome your fear. If you struggle in speaking, then first realize that you are not alone. Public Speaking is the #1 fear in America.You are not alone.
8. A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking
Author: by Dan O'Hair
Bedford/St. Martin's
English
336 pages
This best-selling brief introduction to public speaking offers practical coverage of every topic typically covered in a full-sized text, from invention, research and organization, practice and delivery, to the different speech types. Its concise, inexpensive format makes it perfect not only for the public speaking course, but also for any setting across the curriculum, on the job, or in the community.
The Sixth Edition is filled with new examples, research, handy tools, and digital support to help students master the basics of public speaking in the classroom and beyond. New speeches and examples from people like Will Ferrell, Emma Watson, and students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School engage students in current issues, demonstrate the impact of speech, and provide successful models.
Practical advice on topics like how to determine which organizational pattern to use when, how to adapt to an audience, and how to incorporate inclusive language provide easy-to-apply guidance. The book’s LaunchPad has been greatly expanded with an eBook; new, professionally shot videos; unit quizzes; and a new video assessment program that makes recording video and providing instructor and peer feedback a breeze.
9. The Referable Speaker: Your Guide to Building a Sustainable Speaking Career—No Fame Required
Author: by Michael Port
English
224 pages
1774581183
Use the gigs you get to get the gigs you want. You spend a ton of time building your personal brand to generate more speaking opportunities. You write a blog, record podcasts, post on Instagram, and upload to YouTube. You refine your speaking website, work on that book, participate in Clubhouse, and comment on LinkedIn.
You share your expertise and insight freely. All of that hard work might get you one gig. And, unfortunately, none of those things will guarantee you the next gig. But what if you became a referable speaker? In this ground-breaking guide to building a speaking career, New York Times bestselling author Michael Port, co-founder of Heroic Public Speaking, teams up with bestselling author and world-renowned keynote speaker Andrew Davis to show you the fastest, most practical way to increase your fee and generate more leads.
Discover precisely how event organizers select their keynote speakers, what you can do to win them over, and even how to set your fee. Port and Davis show you why you need to stop investing in marketing yourself as a great speaker and start investing in your speech.
10. The Art of Public Speaking (Communication) Standalone Book
Author: by Stephen Lucas
McGraw-Hill Education
English
388 pages
NOTE: This is a Standalone book and does not include Access card/ Code. The Art of Public Speaking personalizes learning for every student no matter who they are or where they are, ensuring that they come to your public speaking class confident, prepared with the principle foundations, and ready to participate in your teaching and coaching.
11. The Wedding Officiant's Guide: How to Write and Conduct a Perfect Ceremony
Author: by Lisa Francesca
English
136 pages
1452119015
Last year, more than one in three American weddings were officiated by a friend or family member. With the officiating trend on the rise, novice officiants need a resource to guide them. In The Wedding Officiant’s Guide, interfaith minister Lisa Francesca breaks down the entire officiating process, from becoming an ordained officiant and interviewing the couple to drafting and performing a moving ceremony.
Written in an engaging and friendly tone, and featuring empowering advice, suggested readings, stories and lessons learned from new officiants, and practical tips from wedding planners, this inviting handbook will help new officiants write and deliver a wedding ceremony that fulfills marriage laws, delights guests, and honors the marrying couple.
12. The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Author: by Dan Roam
Portfolio
English
304 pages
The acclaimed bestseller about visual problem solving-now bigger and better “There is no more powerful way to prove that we know something well than to draw a simple picture of it. And there is no more powerful way to see hidden solutions than to pick up a pen and draw out the pieces of our problem.”So writes Dan Roam in The Back of the Napkin, the international bestseller that proves that a simple drawing on a humble napkin can be more powerful than the slickest PowerPoint presentation.
Drawing on twenty years of experience and the latest discoveries in vision science, Roam teaches readers how to clarify any problem or sell any idea using a simple set of tools. He reveals that everyone is born with a talent for visual thinking, even those who swear they can’t draw.
And he shows how thinking with pictures can help you discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve your ability to share your insights. Take Herb Kelleher and Rollin King, who figured out how to beat the traditional hub-and-spoke airlines with a bar napkin and a pen.
13. The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Author: by Dale Carnegie
0671724002
Pocket Books
English
In this streamlined and updated edition of Dale Carnegie’s communications classic, learn how to achieve greater success and have maximum impact as a speaker in every situation that requires convincing others of your point of view. Good public speakers are made, not bornas the pioneer of personal business skills, Dale Carnegie, once argued.
Yet business, social, and personal satisfaction and success often depends heavily upon your ability to communicate clearly. In The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking, you can acquire and perfect your public speaking skills. Featuring accessible step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to build confidence, courage, and enthusiasm in every situation, including the boardroom and beyond.
14. Practically Speaking
Author: by J. Dan Rothwell
Oxford University Press
English
416 pages
Widely praised for its conversational tone and clear advice, Practically Speaking is the public speaking textbook your students will actually read. Filled with engaging stories and examples, sound scholarship and recent research, and useful tips and tricks, Practically Speaking shows studentshow to get started, practice thinking critically, and ultimately develop their own voices.
Practically Speaking is a winner of Textbook & Academic Authors Association’s Textbook Excellence Award.
15. Speaking Up without Freaking Out: 50 Techniques for Confident and Compelling Presenting
Author: by Matthew Abrahams
Kendall Hunt Publishing
English
176 pages
50 Scientifically-Supported Techniques to Create More Confident and Compelling Speakers Speaking Up without Freaking Out by Matt Abrahams is an easy-to-read book containing over 50 anxiety management techniques that are based on scientifically supported theory and evidence that will help you become a more confident and compelling communicator regardless of where you present – on stage, in a meeting or virtually.
Confident and compelling presenting involves a complicated mix of physiological and psychological factors. In the 3rd edition, this book provides specific guidance and opportunities to practice developing the skills you will need to feel more comfortable speaking in front of others in an engaging way.
This book is divided into seven chapters: Chapter 1 describes speaking anxiety, how it shows itself, its negative effects, and how you can appear less nervous. Chapter 2 describes the main theories about why people feel anxious when speaking and, importantly, offers you several specific techniques to reduce speaking anxiety and bolster your confidence.
16. Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform
Author: by Patrick Henry Winston
English
360 pages
0262539381
The essentials of communication for professionals, educators, students, and entrepreneurs, from organizing your thoughts to inspiring your audience. Do you give presentations at meetings? Do you ever have to explain a complicated subject to audiences unfamiliar with your field? Do you make pitches for ideas or products?
Do you want to interest a lecture hall of restless students in subjects that you find fascinating? Then you need this book. Make It Clear explains how to communicatehow to speak and write to get your ideas across. Written by an MIT professor who taught his students these techniques for more than forty years, the book starts with the basicsfinding your voice, organizing your ideas, making sure what you say is remembered, and receiving critiques (do not ask for brutal honesty)and goes on to cover such specifics as preparing slides, writing and rewriting, and even choosing a type family.
The book explains why you should start with an empowerment promise and conclude by noting you delivered on that promise. It describes how a well-crafted, explicitly identified slogan, symbol, salient idea, surprise, and story combine to make you and your work memorable.
