Your ability to speak to an audience is essential to your success. Speaking well can garner the respect and esteem of others, make you more valuable to your company, and get attention from people who can help you and open doors for you. Good speaking ability will also convince people that you are generally more talented and intelligent than others who do not speak as well.
In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile
technologies--including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking,
Facebook, blogs, and wikis--are profoundly influencing how we read and
write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we might suppose.
Speak Without Fear: A Total System for Becoming a Natural, Confident Communicator
For over 20 years, Ivy Naistadt has helped individuals and Fortune
500 companies communicate with confidence, ease and authenticity. Ivy's
system will give you the tools and ability to speak fearlessly.
For many of us, public speaking is at best a chore marked by great
anxiety and at worst a potential career stopper. Ours is a time when
the ability to communicate in front of individuals or groups in all
types of business and other situations is becoming paramount.
Speak Without Fear offers a unique, practical process for combating the stage fright that plagues us every day in these situations.
Unlike other books on public speaking,
Speak Without Fear goes
beyond the external techniques, such as how to breathe properly and
keep eye contact, to delve deeply into the reason for your performance
anxiety. It gets to the root of what's giving you the sweats so you can
identify what's in the way and work through it to communicate naturally
and comfortably before audiences of any size.
How to Speak And Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin (Audio Book + PDF)
In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one
end in view, viz.: To make it serviceable for those for whom it is
intended, that is, for those who have neither the time nor the
opportunity, the learning nor the inclination, to peruse elaborate
and abstruse treatises on Rhetoric, Grammar, and Composition. To
them such works are ...