Über den Autor
Gary Genard is one of America's leading speech coaches. As an actor and communications professor, he created The Genard Method to bring theater-based techniques to business leaders and other professionals with a need to influence audiences. Dr. Genard consults for corporations, governments, trade associations, the United Nations, both houses of Congress, and executives and leadership teams worldwide. He is the author of Fearless Speaking: Beat Your Anxiety, Build Your Confidence, Change Your Life and the weekly blog Speak for Success! In 2016 for the third consecutive year, Global Gurus ranked him as #11 on its list of the World's Top 30 Communication Professionals. You can find him at GenardMethod.com and follow him on Twitter @GaryGenard.
Klappentext
If fear of public speaking is undermining your success, Fearless Speaking can change your life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Gary Genard shares his proven method for transforming your self-doubt into confidence. His easy-to-use system will help you escape the negative thinking, physical symptoms, and avoidance behavior that are holding you back. This step-by-step, personalized approach features 50 exercises that will dramatically boost your comfort level and skill in as little as 12 days. nnFrom business presentations to contributing at meetings to persuasive speaking to wedding toasts, Fearless Speaking will help you put your anxiety into perspective, turn harmful self-talk into positive thinking, and acquire the skills to become a more dynamic speaker. You'll find techniques to dramatically reduce the physical and emotional aspects of stage fright while boosting your focus and presence. Actor and speech coach Dr. Genard shows you how to grow your confidence quickly with The Fearless Speaking System, a performance-based approach that has helped thousands worldwide. nnYou'll learn how to understand your personal fears while discovering ways to create your own success. If you've been avoiding speaking opportunities, if you dread delivering speeches, or if you have a make-or-break presentation coming up, this is the book for you. It's a self-directed course for eliminating speaking fear forever that you can learn quickly, efficiently, and effectively. Dr. Genard's exercises, many of them directly from the world of the theater, help people from all walks of life deal with issues like establishing rapport with an audience, pacing your presentations, moving and activating listeners, and other critical challenges.nnDon't let fear of public speaking limit your success any longer. Read the book, practice the exercises . . . and start enjoying public speaking!
