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Speak for Leadership: How to Engage, Persuade, and Inspire Any Audience
$24.95

Are you as successful as you’d like to be in meetings, presentations, speeches, and videoconferences? Do you achieve maximum impact and influence? Whenever you speak, you’re the leader in the room. Learn how to embody that role with poise, presence, and power!

In Speak for Leadership, actor and executive speech coach Dr. Gary Genard reveals how to engage, persuade, and inspire any audience. Discover how cutting-edge research in neuroscience and emotion, storytelling, body language, voice, and audience dynamics can transform the way you move listeners. This guide to more profitable speaking will show you:

  • How to fully develop your natural talents.

  • Secrets for greater clarity, conciseness, and confidence.

  • Ways to hook an audience within sixty seconds.

  • Storytelling tips to move listeners emotionally.

  • Essential qualities of speaking for leadership.

  • An actor’s techniques for commanding a stage.

  • How to achieve virtual presence . . . and much more!

Speaking Virtually: Gain Confidence, Boost Your Presentation Skills, and Acquire Virtual Presence in Online Meetings
$15.95

Ready to acquire virtual presence while boosting your online influence?

Today, “the virtual you,” is a vital component of your career. Online meetings are a daily test of how influential you are in your job and profession. Are you 100% comfortable and confident when speaking virtually? Or do you struggle with achieving online presence? From now on, you need a strong virtual persona! So, why isn’t there a hands-on guide to presenting yourself powerfully in cyberspace as well as your ideas?

Now there is.

Actor and speech expert Dr. Gary Genard can make anyone into a more dynamic communicator. Now the author of How to Give a Speech, Fearless Speaking, and Speak for Leadership reveals how you can command remote space with ease and authenticity, and make everything you say memorable.

In Speaking Virtually, you’ll learn how to:

• Get to the point and speak concisely.
• Improve your presentation skills in the virtual environment.
• Grab attention when you begin speaking and keep everyone engaged.
• Speak with warmth and personality to a webcam.
• Look and sound like yourself even when everyone’s camera is off.
• Develop a strong and reliable online presence.
• Calm your nerves prior to or at the start of a meeting.
• Become more personable and likable virtually.
• Improve your voice for greater power and authority.
• ‘Think on your seat’ when speaking under pressure.
• Handle tough questions and pushback with ease.
• Reduce Zoom fatigue with these 7 tricks.
• And much more!

Welcome to the secrets of success for speaking virtually!

Speaking Virtually is also available on this website as an E-book.

How to Give a Speech: Second Expanded Edition
$15.95

Easy-to-Learn Skills for Successful Presentations, Speeches, Pitches, Lectures, and More!

Your speaking abilities are key to your personal and professional success. Simply put, if you’re a confident communicator who can speak passionately about your ideas, you’ll be seen as a natural leader. This book gives you all the skills you need to understand audiences, enjoy public speaking more, and speak at your very best in any situation.

You’ll learn actor and speech coach Gary Genard’s powerful, easy-to-learn system of dynamic public speaking, The Genard Method. Professionals worldwide have used these theater-based techniques to succeed in speeches, presentations, sales pitches, meetings, lectures, and interpersonal communication. Discover the step-by-step method for reducing stage fright, organizing a presentation, engaging audiences, and speaking like a pro.

How to Give a Speech will help you:

  • Reduce your nerves and boost your confidence

  • Improve your rapport with listeners

  • Create strong content aligned with your purpose

  • Use storytelling to engage and persuade

  • Develop compelling openings and closings

  • Employ emotion to move audiences

  • Improve your body language and voice

  • Handle resistance and think on your feet

  • Speak with poise and eloquence

  • Master the art of stage presence

This expanded edition of Dr. Genard’s classic handbook includes new material on body language, breathing techniques, presentation technology, acting and speech performance, and the future of public speaking. More than ever, it’s the guidebook of great speaking for beginners, experienced speakers, and everyone in between.

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Fearless Speaking: Beat Your Anxiety. Build Your Confidence. Change Your Life!
$19.95

Gary shows you how to reframe your fear and provides you with scores of tips to deal with the physical symptoms of fear that we all find so uncomfortable. A must-read for the frequent speaker.” - Nick Morgan, author of Power Cues

"The book is actually a powerful toolkit for overcoming stage fright, reducing butterflies, and becoming a more empowered and engaging speaker. In many ways, it can help you unleash what you’re capable of." - J.D. Meier, Sources of Insights

Speech anxiety keeps many people from achieving their potential, feeling confident, and being heard. Fearless Speaking is practical, actionable, encouraging and empowering. What are you waiting for?" - Suzanne Bates, author of Speak like a CEO

You're overly anxious about speaking in public. When you're in front of an audience, your nerves get the better of you--destroying your focus, spiking your heart rate, sometimes putting you on the verge of a panic attack.

Sound familiar?

This book will help you permanently overcome the fears and anxieties about public speaking that are holding you back. As an actor and speech coach, author Gary Genard shows people from all walks of life how to overcome stage fright and grow their confidence through his proven method for eliminating speaking fear. Through 50 hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to:

  • Put your fear into perspective

  • Turn negative beliefs into positive thinking

  • Use body language to broadcast confidence

  • Create your own success with positive visualization

  • Practice biofeedback to control your stress response

  • Halt a panic attack before it starts

  • Acquire the skills to become a dynamic speaker

  • Build a much greater level of calmness and confidence

  • Enjoy public speaking again or for the first time!

If you suffer from speech anxiety, Fearless Speaking can change your life. Discover how to banish your speaking fear and build your confidence in as little as 12 days. Start enjoying public speaking today, and reap the rewards!