Think about it: on weekends, we’re all great communicators because our default is storytelling. When we go to a party on Saturday night, we don’t talk about how we optimized our calendar last Wednesday to monetize our mission-critical, best-of-breed, seamless-solution-provider business. (If you do, that’s probably why you haven’t been invited back to many parties). Instead we tell a story about something that happened on Wednesday. On the weekends our speech is conversational, simple, clea...

Ideas 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. Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a successful presentation. Now public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo explores what makes a great presentation by examining the widely acclaimed TED Talks, which have redefined...

Covering every aspect of launching, building, and maintaining a successful speaking career, Paid to Speak is a must-read for professional speakerswhether keynote speaker, motivator, coach, trainer, facilitator, or consultantas well as those aspiring to a speaking career.Divided into four sections, the content corresponds with the four core competencies that the National Speakers Association (NSA) has identified for success as a professional speaker:- Eloquence: platform mechanics, presenti...

Team Building Secrets Revealed: The Ultimate Team Building Course, Proven Strategies To Build, Inspire And Motivate Successful Teams That Will Get Things Done. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tabletThis book contains proven steps and strategies on how to establish, inspire, and encourage effective, successful work teams. Normally, goal-oriented individuals are keen on challenges and thrive on great development opportunities. Being a team leader, you must be able to take advantag...

This reader-friendly series is must read for all levels of managersAll managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little brushing-up now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books Series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations.The ability to give a great presentation can be a tremendous career booster, whil...

In the Chair is a practical, up-to-date, and comprehensive guide to becoming the successful chair of any body, whether it's the organization you work for, a community group or charity, or a public or company board. What qualities and skills do you need? How should you approach your group and its members? How should you prepare for and conduct meetings? How do you arrive at decisions and cope with difficult situations and people? The book contains invaluable advice on chairing form...

We have interviewed event planners and professionals who have held more than their share of conferences, workshops, and seminars, and they’ve shared their successes, and failures, to help you achieve, and avoid, the same things. With the tips for creating distinct content and engaging your audience in this book, your workshop, seminar, or conference will leave people wanting more.

The world is your stage. Own it.Great speaking does not come easy. But even the wallflowers among us can’t avoid speaking forever. In Own Any Occasion, speaker and educator Erik Palmer taps into his vast experience to simplify the process of extraordinary speaking, whether you’re giving a wedding toast or preparing for a one-on-one sales call. His approach is equal parts preparation and delivery: Never speak unless you have something worth saying, and never let a poor performance d...

This third Edition of SELLING 101 is drawn from the selling skills training courses and sales training how-to books the author developed for top marketing organizations. Ideal for sales meetings and continuing OJT, as well as for sales training retreats. Or for those selling consulting services or free-agent assignments.SELLING 101 is a sales training book designed to provide practical sales how-to guidance on the kind of sales and selling skills useful for sales people looking for...

AS IN SPORTS, great presentations start with great preparation. The Presentation Playbook: Be a Most Valuable Presenter (MVP), Volume 1: Analyzing Your Scouting Reports invites you into a truly unique, in-depth preparation process that will change your perception of speaking itself. You'll know how to calculate the vast value of every audience members, prevent and respond to disasters in your speaking environment, outsmart your speaking competitors, and turn any audience into your loyal fa...

Corporate Cocktail is a classy and rich blend of different ingredients, which not only ensures that the high spirits, symbolic of the cocktail, are maintained, but also makes sure that the stories of the corporate trek keep flowing continuously. The lucid articulation, supported by heart-touching stories and incidents, opens up new vistas and avenues for the readers to introspect and create nice memories of humility, positive attitude, helping and caring behavior towards the co-pass...

It’s no secret: marketing punches below its weight in the Boardroom. CEOs and other board members perceive that marketers lack commercial credibility when compared to their peers.Marketing in the Boardroom helps marketers to be more commercially credible and thereby more successful in the Boardroom.Ruth Saunders explains the importance of marketing in the Boardroom, and why marketers often struggle to engage the Board. She then shows how to develop compelling marketing stra...