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Say It with Confidence: Overcome the Mental Blocks that Keep You from Making Great Presentations and Speeches

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Margo's book is filled with excellent tips, techniques and exercises to help even the "neediest" in the realm of speech giving/presentations. I find myself referencing this book over and over again - with each new presentation I give. The pages are dog-earred for a reason - I can always find an area that I need to refresh my skills in. I can "Say it With Confidence" - buy this book - you'll be glad you did.

Margo deeply understands the fears and problems faced by her readers. I found her knowledge on the subject practical, enlightening, and comforting.

I was as fascinated to learn why we feel the way we do, as to the remedies offered. More than once, while reading, I caught myself thinking, "so that's why I feel this way...now I know why, I can begin to change."

This is a well written, extremely helpful book.

I have found this book extremely helpful in planning and giving presentations - much more than most of the other books out there on public speaking. I make a lot of speeches every year, and I often go back to the presentation analysis form the author suggests to make sure I'm going to connect with the audience.

The very best thing about this book is the underlying message in every chapter: it's not about you the speaker. It's about your relationship with the listeners. When you are thinking about them and helping them understand your ideas, you lose the self-consciousness about yourself.

This is a useful book for both experienced speakers (the exercises are terrific!) and people new to speaking who need a boost in confidence.

I read this book because I found, after many years out of the workforce, I was less confident in my ability to present to any size audience. It was hard to use my voice effectively and relax. "Say It With Confidence" showed me better than any other book that the internal process of finding a personal style, using what feels natural and feeling the success of doing all of that really well produces a solid level of self confidence that stays with you for a longer time than any program with the same list of steps to follow for everybody. The whole idea of approaching yourself, not with a formula, but with a real self analysis makes so much more sense.
Say It With Confidence uses personal experiences of the author to show you that she really knows how to help people overcome mental blocks because she personally overcame her own and understands what it takes. Her anecdotes tell the story of what works and what doesn't work more so than any lecture or 'how to' approach ever could. The author's experience helping people with this subject/skill with advice tailored to each unique person in their own unique set of circumstances shows great insight into the individual and that we all can't expect ourselves to turn ourselves into 'someone else' in order to succeed. I loved the book. I'd recommend it to anyone trying to overcome fear of presenting, to anyone interviewing for jobs, for anyone who wants to learn how to communicate to customers, management or even subordinates.

I used to shake- literally tremble -at thought of presenting. My heart would pound, my palms would sweat - I felt completely out of control. "Say it with Confidence" helped me take control, relax and conquer my anxieties. I now do public speaking on a regular basis and each time it gets easier. This book is entertaining and a fun read...but more importantly it is the antidote to presentation fears!

This book is a lifesaver for anyone who is in a position where they need to present either professionally or in their personal life. Ms Krasne clearly outlines the blockages that we all suffer in this area and gives a clear and consise 'method' which takes the mystery and difficulty out of presenting. I thoroughly recommend this book to all who need or just want to be able practice the art of confident presenting.

I was going to give this only three stars before it hit me why this book is so good. The reason for the three stars--it's obvious that this is the author's first book. It needs to be heavily edited, it starts out pretty slowly, and it's written more toward the level of high-level public speakers. It also tells you more of what not to do rather than what to do.

But, as I've been thinking about it for the last week since I finished the book, I've realized why this book is so good. This author has tons of unique concepts on speech. I've been thinking about this book ever since I finished it, and these really cool concepts that the author discusses keep coming back to me.

A few of them are:

-Making sure that all of your speech relates to the audience's "carrots"

-That confidence comes from three things: 1) knowing what to do, 2) learning to do it, and 3) doing it often enough so you can do it with confidence

-How public speaking is like dancing

-That PowerPoint is bad for almost all presentations

The book's last half is much, much stronger than the first half. This is pretty rare in a book.

Hopefully this author will write another book. She's got a lot to share, and I think that her next book will be a bestseller.

I used to shake- literally tremble -at thought of presenting. My heart would pound, my palms would sweat - I felt completely out of control. "Say it with Confidence" helped me take control, relax and conquer my anxieties. I now do public speaking on a regular basis and each time it gets easier. This book is entertaining and a fun read...but more importantly it is the antidote to presentation fears!