The Well-Spoken Woman: Your Guide to Looking and Sounding Your Best

The Well-Spoken Woman: Your Guide to Looking and Sounding Your Best

by Christine K. Jahnke
The Well-Spoken Woman: Your Guide to Looking and Sounding Your Best

The Well-Spoken Woman: Your Guide to Looking and Sounding Your Best

by Christine K. Jahnke

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Overview

Sheryl Sandberg advises women to "lean in" to realize their full potential. To do so successfully, women need effective communication skills and a confident presentation style.In this must-have guide, one of the nation's premier speech coaches shares tested techniques from twenty years of coaching women on what works and what doesn't. The author details the practices and techniques of successful women to help all women improve their presentation and public speaking skills. With access to her expertise, you'll learn strategies that will help you present your best self in forums from PTA meetings to TV studios, conferences to classrooms, boardrooms to YouTube. The author has advised First Lady Michelle Obama for her International Olympic Committee speech, provided speaker training to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, and coached corporate CE's and more women elected officials than any other trainer. Every woman can benefit from studying the polished speaking skills of such powerful women. Strategic advice on everything from messaging to hair and hemlines will allow you to come across as polished and prepared. The author includes easy-to-follow exercises so you can try out techniques immediately, from the use of sound bites and secrets to establishing eye contact to what not to do with your hands.Filled with behind-the-scenes advice, this book is for every woman who wants to present herself well, express her ideas with confidence, and earn the respect of any audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781616144623
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/20/2011
Pages: 360
Sales rank: 531,383
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Christine K. Jahnke is the president and founder of Positive Communications (www.poscom.com) and has provided speech coaching and media training to leaders in business, the nonprofit community, government, and politics since 1991. Jahnke has advised First Lady Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and has worked with women CEOs at companies as diverse as the National Geographic Channel and the International Speedway Corporation, parent of NASCAR.

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