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The Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers
Get World Class, CEO level strategies to accelerate the power of your presentation skills.
There is a common thread with all Highly Effective Speakers. They do lots of little things right. Whether they are speaking from the front of the room, across the table or on the ‘phone, Highly Effective Speakers use small techniques to get their message across.
In this book you will learn the skills they use, including:
- What to do with your hands
- The 1 best way to open any presentation
- The 2 techniques to get rid of Ums, errs and ahs
- The 3 things you should do if you are presenting at a conference
- How to speak at a moment’s notice and make it look prepared
- How to turn nervousness into an adrenaline rush
What the experts say:
Don’t just take my word for it…This analysis of public speaking is great. It gives strategies and approaches to resolve many problems speakers face. These skills and insights are very helpful to someone beginning on this journey, or someone who has already started. Well done Darren!
Mark Hunter,
2009 World Champion of Public Speaking
Darren is a rock star speaker and the tips he gives in this book are spot on. If you want to be a rock star speaker, presenter, or simply the best communicator you can be, you have to read this book now!
Cathey Armillas
Author, International Speaker and Non-Traditional Marketing Specialist
This book contains well thought out and superb advice. I can already see how these ideas will help me to communicate within my workplace when sharing my ideas and aid in my promotional prospects.
Dr Susan Pearce, PhD, BEng (Mech), BSc
Secure your copy today – get it now!This book offers a treasure-trove of advice, presented in easily-digested chunks. Each principle is first summarized succinctly and is then expanded with explanation and practical strategies. Realistic advice mixed with reassurance will encourage readers to have confidence in their ability to present.
Shelley Dunstone, LLB, B.Mgt Mktg, International Speaker, Thought Leader, Innovation Strategist
Speak Motivate and Lead
How Real Leaders inspire others to follow
If you are a Section Manager, Sales Manager, or Chief Executive Officer, connecting with your audience and getting your message across is often a challenge. This power-packed book is the answer you have been looking for.
Learn how to speak to your boss, your staff and your clients so they listen, understand and then take action on what you say.If you are a Section Manager, Sales Manager, or Chief Executive Officer, keeping your audiences’ attention is often a challenge. This power-packed book is the answer you have been looking for. Here is what Business Psychologist and the Head of Psychology Services for the Australian Olympic Team (199-2000) Graham Winter had to say about the book:
Darren Fleming has created a simple reference guide to the tricky task of getting your message across in a way that doesn’t just inform but actually engages the audience. The many useful tips will make it a valuable tool for the busy manager and team leader.
Graham Winter, Head of Psychology Services, Australian Olympic Team (1992-2000), Author of Think One Team, High Performance Leadership and The Business Athlete.
In this book you will get:
- The 5 rules of PowerPoint that must be followed so you don’t send your audience to sleep
- The 7 rules for Presenting in Boardrooms
- How to control your nervousness when speaking
- How to make every person in your audience feel as though you are speaking directly with them
- How you can make any topic interesting – even statistics training can be interesting!
- How to use your stories to connect with every person in the room
- And much, much, more
After reading this book you will know how to:Don’t be deceived by this seemingly thin book (only 50 pages!). It compresses many nuggets of solid speaking advice that will take you years to find in other presentation litreature. No fluff and straight to the point.
Eric Feng, Public Speaking Coach and Author of The FAQ Book of Public Speaking, Singapore
- Press your audiences’ hot-buttons
- Speak so people will want to listen
- How to prepare for your next sales presentation
- Connect with your audience in the most powerful way possible
- Put forward a different opinion and have others buy into it
- Sell with stories
Public Course Adelaide
Public Speaking Course Adelaide
Arkaba, Tuesday 31 January 2012, 9am – 4:30pm
Public Speaking Course Adelaide: This is a modfified version of the 1-day course I teach to my corporate clients. The course is designed to give you the skills to put together an engaging presentation with very little preparation time.
On the day, we will unpack the elements of a solid presentation, develop the skills you need to present like a leader and use the Executive Speaking Model template to build an engaging presentation and you can then deliver with no notes. Places are limited to 8. Content of the day includes:
- Beating the nerves – get into the “performance state”
- Multiple structures use time and again
- Corporate Stories – Uncovering stories to get your point across
- How to open a presentation
- The voice as a tool – how to speak with authority
- Body language that works
- No more “Ums, errs and ahs”
- Handle the Q&A session like an expert
- Develop and deliver a 10 minute presentation
- Get great feedback from your audience
- How to make use of feedback from your presentation
The Arkaba, 150 Glen Osmond Rd, Fullarton.
Tuesday 31 January 2012. 9am.
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How to Win the District Evaluation Competition
….And give Great Club Evaluations too.
For the first time, the secrets to winning the District Evaluation Competition are revealed here by the Current Champion. These secrets take the CRC formula to a new level to get you more points for the analytics section and other areas on the evaluation judging form.
Strong club evaluations and winning the District Evaluation Competition go hand-in-hand. This CD will tell you how you can evaluate any speech at club level in a clear, concise and constructive manner. It will give you different techniques for taking notes, different ways of applying the CRC formula so you can analyse and evaluate a speech in greater detail. This will help you, your club members and your club grow as a whole. These are the same skills you need to win the District Evaluation Competition. Specifically, the CD covers:
- Why new members make great evaluators
- How to make effective notes
- Different ways to evaluate different speeches
- The first and last things you must say in a competition
- How to show the judges you have analysed the speaker more than any other competitor
- How to give recommendations that get you vital extra points
- How to tie it all together so the judges love it.

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