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| The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking | 
 enlarge | Author: Dale Carnegie
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (28 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3695
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0671724002
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.51
EAN: 9780671724009
ASIN: 0671724002
Publication Date: March 1, 1990
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 A practical book on effective speaking July 28, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dale Carnegie discusses several aspects of effective speaking:
1. Keep your goal before you, visualize success, and seize every opportunity to practice.
2. Prepare well and be confident.
3. Speak on a topic that you have expertise in and are passionate about.
4. Limit the scope of your talk, know 10X what you put on slides, and fill talk with illustrations and examples.
5. Talk to your listeners' interests, give honest and sincere appreciation, empathize with audience, make them a partner in your talk, be modest.
6. For short talks, give an example / incident from your life (70%), state your point and action desired from audience, and the benefit that the audience may expect.
7. For informational talks compare strange with familiar.
8. For impromptu talks, get into an example immediately, speak with animation / enthusiasm.
9. Converse with your audience, specific details help
Numerous examples reinforce the above notes. Useful and easy to apply.
 Myth: Great speakers are born January 8, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Myth: Great speakers are born. Dale Carnegie's "The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking" may be a misnomer - it's not as easy as easy as the title may imply, but more importantly, he shows that it's nurture not nature that makes a great speaker. The book is filled with inspiring examples, tips and lessons. If you want to become a great speaker, this is a must read. You'll learn about the common pitfalls, the structure of the talk, the importance of introductions, conclusions, and much more. This book has stood the test of time and helped thousands of people, I'm glad to say that I'm one of them.
Nothing short of effective. January 5, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great book to pick up and read to get a better understanding of ways to speak in front of big audiences, as well as small crowds. Highly effective if the reader really puts himself into it and follows the principles listed in the book. I have other Dale Carnegie books in my possession and I recommend all of them.
 erroneous delivery January 1, 2007
1 out of 42 found this review helpful
The cd I received is entitled "Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business" by Dale Carnegie; however the content corresponds to Napoleon Hill's recordings. I didn't order Hill's recording and I don't want it. Please send what I ordered.
Timeless advice from a master July 19, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
You can rarely go wrong if you follow this rule of thumb: If it's by Dale Carnegie, then it's going to be well worth reading. 'The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking' is no exception!
To be honest, though, the title probably doesn't do the book justice, because while being an effective and very marketable title, if fear of public speaking had a 'quick and easy' solution, there wouldn't be so many folk out there still fretting about it.
That said, if you want a beginner's guide that startes out by covering the fundamentals in a clear and user-friedly way, then you wouldn't be making a bad choice if you opted to read this.
'The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking' covers the basic speaking process, dealing with the fear of public speaking, which, if we are honest, is THE key element that leaves us tongue-tied or backing away in dread, which in turn, is bound to affect the quality of our speech, no matter how well prepared we are in other ways.
On choosing a topic for the speech, Dale gives us refreshingly realistic advice - to choose a topic that we already love and know a lot about as a basis for a speech, but to be aware that it may not be your audience's choice.
All in all, you're in good hands. Dale draws upon his vast experiences as a speaker himself, and a teacher of public speaking to help the reader understand the process. He also draws upon the public speaking abilities of great men in history, such as Abraham Lincoln.
Recommended.
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