Speaking Your Way To Success

Speak Your Way to Success

Public Speaking

Public Speaking: The Path to Success guides students through the process of preparing and delivering a successful speech. With new material on informative and persuasive speeches, this edition explores a unique set of insights that students can use right away to become more effective speakers. It offers step-by-step advice and updated examples to help students through every stage of the process -- from analyzing their audience to presenting their ideas. This book is packed with practical techniques that will transform novice speakers into confident communicators. Unlike traditional public speaking books, this text speaks directly to students in an engaging, personal way. It motivates students to push their fears aside and speak with passion about a cause that matters to them. Public Speaking: The Path to Success is an ideal text for courses on public speaking or rhetoric. It is a must-read for students who want to speak powerfully from the podium and develop the confidence to lead. Steven D. Cohen is a leading expert on public speaking and effective presentation skills. A professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, he is well known for helping leaders and professionals speak with authority, confidence, and influence. Dr. Cohen has been quoted in publications such as the Financial Times, Slate, HuffPost, and New York Magazine. He also was featured in the BBC Radio documentary "Churchill's Secret Cabinet." Dr. Cohen earned a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Maryland and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University. To learn more about Dr. Cohen, please visit www.stevendcohen.net.

How to Talk Your Way to Success

Have you ever stopped to think how much “talk” occurs in our own little busy world every day of our lives? Do you realize how much talk is involved in our jobs in everyday business? How everything we do every day of our lives involves conversation and speech on many different topics? Our conversations in our household and community affairs, at our desk in the office, out in the factory or on the road, with our fellow workers, executives, vendors, customers, visitors, friends—all these involve thousands of words every day in our lives. Imagine what help it might be to your prospects of success if all your talk and conversation were consciously directed to specific objectives and goals of accomplishment. Think of the pleasant and desirable things that might happen if your talks, your conversations, your letters, your telephone messages, your public appearances all were consciously channeled along the road to success. This book has as its major purpose the directing of all these words into proper, efficient, and effective lines of communication.