The Leader's Guide to Speaking With Presence:
How to Project Confidence, Conviction, and Authority
AMACOM $9.95
A leader’s most important job is to communicate. Every day, whether in a meeting or presentation, a water-cooler conversation or a formal speech, his or her ability to craft and deliver a clear message, one the audience will believe, is the tipping point between forgettable and transformational.
The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presenceis a concise tool kit containing more than 100 practical tips for creating and communicating meaningful messages with presence and authority. Readers will discover how to:
Present their ideas clearly and provide context
Radiate confidence and put the audience at ease
Refine their delivery
Use stories to inform, involve and inspire
Leverage the energy of any room
Convey optimism tempered with reality to gain buy-in
Turn Power Point presentations into performances
To be truly effective, a leader’s words need to ring true and his or her delivery needs to be authentic. This handy, little guide helps readers achieve the meaningful, genuine presence that leads to lasting trust and quantifiable influence.
12 Steps to Power Presence:
How to Assert Your Authority to Lead
AMACOM $9.95
Leaders project power through their presence.
Leadership presence is the outward manifestation of leadership behavior. While leaders project their leadership, followers authorize it with their approval. Leadership presence is “earned authority.” Those two words are important. Earned means you have led by example.
12 Steps to Power Presencedemonstrates ways managers can improve their presence strategically and tactically to develop the trust of their people so that they can accomplish their goals and the goals of the organization.
12 Steps to Power Presence explains what it takes to be a leader – one who can develop the trust of people in order to can accomplish individual and organizational goals and results.
12 Steps to Power Presence
Project A2 (authenticity/authority) through presence
Transform good character into positive action
Explore five aspects of authority
Instilling pride of purpose
Projecting hope and optimism
Coaching your boss
Deliver practical tips for leadership who must communicate, delegate, manage and inspire
