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Almost everyone has some fear about speaking before groups. You can improve your self-confidence and wow the crowds even if you're shaking on the inside using the tips and tricks found in
Standard Deviants: Public Speaking. The Standard Deviants have won 19 Tellies for Best Educational Video, and it's easy to see why: educators, comic actors, and experts in the field team up to present the essentials of each subject in a concise and entertaining fashion. Public speaking is a natural for these folks--it's much easier to show viewers how to stand, gesture, and enunciate than, say, to calculate integrals or parse sentences. The program goes beyond simple stage fright to explore effective techniques of persuading, informing, and charming audiences. The scenes move quickly but never confuse the viewer, and the video comes with a cheat sheet so you needn't waste time taking notes.
--Rob Lightner
Product Description
Whether you fear or crave the chance to speak in public, learn how to organize ideas, analyze an audience and make them sit up and listen. Deliver your speech in style and influence your audience with a clear message, sufficient supportive materials and appropriate anecdotes. Whether youre cramming for a speech or preparing ahead, these sure-fire methods are certain to win your audience!
Contributors: Dr. Kerry Riley, professor at George Washington Universitys Department of Education and Dr. Susan Faust, professor at Wake Forest Universitys Department of Communications.
