The Top Performer's Guide to Speeches and Presentations: Mastering the Art of Engaging and Persuading Any Audience

Speeches and presentations are a facet of almost everyone's career, from professional speakers to executives to teachers. Top performers just like you struggle every day to not only get their message across, but convince the audience to change their actions according to that message.

The Top Performer's Guide to Speeches and Presentations is your essential handbook full of tips for crafting effective, engaging presentations that accomplish your goal, be it selling a product or service or teaching a new system. Discover:

• The four cornerstones of dynamic speaking and communication
• How to best use your eyes, voice, and body language
• Relating to your audience through story
• Tools for preparing a masterful Powerpoint presentation
• Developing your own signature style
• Tips and hints to ensure that your audience responds with action

Tim Ursiny, PhD, CBC, RCC is the CEO of Advantage Coaching & Training (www.advantagecoaching.com). He is a coach/trainer specializing in helping people reach peak performance, great relationships, and personal happiness.

Dr. Tim regularly speaks for Fortune 500 companies that want workshops that are practical yet entertaining. He also coaches CEOs, executives, sales professionals, and others on a variety of subjects related to performance and life satisfaction. Dr. Tim's previous books include The Confidence Plan: How to Build a Stronger You, The Coach's Handbook, and The Coward's Guide to Conflict, which is currently in its third printing and has been translated into several foreign languages. He is currently writing a series of books called What Top Performers Know about... around such topics as change, conflict, networking, attitude, and public speaking. He lives in Wheaton, Illinois, with his wife, Marla, and his three sons, Zach, Colton, and Vance. Gary DeMoss is the director of Van Kampen Consulting, which provides communication and relationship-skills training to financial advisors. Gary has been with Van Kampen for twenty-four years. He began his career with the company by starting and directing their national sales. He was later named director of marketing and in 1998 started Van Kampen Consulting. Gary is a keynote speaker, seminar leader, and consultant to advisors who want to build their affluent client base, and he was recently selected as a platform speaker at the 2003 Million Dollar Round Table conference. He is the coauthor of the book The Financial Professional's Guide to Persuading 1 or 1,000, which helps advisors learn the science and art of delivering more powerful client presentations both one-on-one and in group settings. Prior to joining Van Kampen, Gary was with Procter & Gamble in sales management. He has a BS in business from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Jim Morel is the founder/chairman and CEO of Jam Consulting Group, Inc., a sales and management consulting firm. In addition to his work as an executive sales coach and consultant, Jim is a sought-after keynote speaker. Prior to founding JAM Consulting Group, Inc., he worked for thirty years in financial services in several areas, including senior management as president of a broker dealer company, commissioned sales, and international and national sales management. Over the years, Jim has successfully rebuilt and re-energized hundreds of sales teams struggling at one time or another. Jim holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in education, psychology, and science from Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana. He is on numerous advisory boards and is involved with many nonprofit organizations. Jim lives in St. Charles, Illinois, with his wife, Sherry. He has three children, Tom, Kaleen, and Marques, along with six grandchildren.