Gary Michael, The Talk Doc, shows how emotional connection affects the success of public presentations as surely as private communions. In his latest book, Get in Bed With Your Audience And Satisfy Them EVERY Time, Michael says both personal and professional success depend on people's ability to connect with others at a soul level.
"We get nervous before a first time sexual encounter for much the same reason we do before a speech in public," says Michael. "In both cases, we know ourselves to be vulnerable, and suffer adequacy anxiety. Yet both situations offer unique, if different, opportunities to give of ourselves to others. Sex, when conducted with genuine affection for one's partner, becomes an instrument of comfort and regeneration. A carefully crafted, artfully delivered presentation has the same potential--just for a much larger audience."
Michael's previous book on public speaking, It Gives Me Great Pleasure, made The Tattered Cover's Business Best Seller list and garnered acclaim from CEO's, speech professors, authors, and professional speakers. St. Mary's University of Minnesota uses it for all its Communication Skills classes.
Get In Bed With Your Audience shows ways a speaker can bond with an audience in a way that transforms both. "Sure, it's about technique," Michael says--"technique in the service of soul."
What Others Say About Get In Bed With Your Audience:
"I have watched hundreds of leadership trainees go into Gary Michael's presentations with skepticism and trepidation, become absorbed by his insights warapped in warmth, sincerity and humor, and emerge ready to communicate with their audiences. This book is a perfect companion piece to those presentations."
Hank Kugeler, longtime organizer of training seminars for service club leaders
"The best book I've seen on how to talk to any audience, any time, about anything."
Leil Lowndes, author of the best-selling "How to Talk to Anybody About Anything"
"Eureka! This is the book I've been looking for and have adopted it as the text for my Communication Skills classes. It's the best book anywhere for adults who give speeches because it distills and presents the essentials of public speaking. Having taught speech to thousands of students in my 35 years of teaching, I'll be telling my graduate students, 'Everything you need to know about giving a speech is in Gary Michael's book.'"
Professor Tom Born, St. Mary's University of Minnesota
"At last everything anyone needs to know about how to design and deliver a dynamite presentation--and under one cover. Gary Michael puts the wisdom gleaned over many years into short, lucid form. Beginning and advanced speakers alike will benefit from his insights. The chapter on Delivery alone is worth the price of the book."
Fred Berns, author of the best-selling Sell Yourself! 50l Ways to Get Them to Buy from You
"Wow! All people who speak in front of others should have this book at their fingertips. It gives a road-map of easy to reference do's and dont's that will enrich every speaking opportunity. Anyone can use the techniques and mental cues Gary Michael provides to take those proverbial "butterflies" and make them fly in formation."
Dr. Jeffrey Magee, President of the Oklahoma Speakers Association
"A superb primer for aspiring speakers and an excellent skillbuilder for seasoned pros."
Fred Holden, author of Total Power of One in America and 23 year veteran professional speaker AUTHORBIO:He is a former radio announcer and television actor.
He has masters degrees in English and philosophy, a doctorate in humanities.
He is the only American born member of the National Speakers Association to have taught seminars in three foreign languages.
He has published over one hundred articles for periodicals as diverse as American Artist, Colorado Business, Professional Speaker, Toastmasters Magazine, Palette Talk, The Georgia Review, Journal of General Education, Southwest Art, and The Bloomsbury Review.
He has climbed fifty of Colorado's fifty-four 14,000 foot peaks and won city and state tennis championships.
His clients include Dames & Moore, Dean Witter Reynolds, the United States Air Force, Toastmasters International, Federally Employed Women, Advanced Business Consulting, Denver Art Museum, Rotary International, and Flying Colors Art Workshops.
He is a compulsive dog doter, chocolate consumer, and art viewer.
