A Modest Book About How to Make an Adequate Speech
- Author John-Paul Flintoff
- Narrator Kris Dyer
- Publisher Octopus
- Publish Date 18 February 2021
- Run Time 7 hours and 44 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Business communication and presentation, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Speaking in public: advice and guides.
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What to expect
This book will not magically transform you into a fast-talking, high-flying hotshot. But it does hope to teach you how to be adequate at public speaking - and, with a spot of luck, you might turn out to be 'rather good'.
Using Cicero's five canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery) and drawing upon his own highly entertaining tales of success and failure from the speech-giving circuit, Flintoff will arm you with a handful of simple structural techniques that will enable you to stand up, if not with delight, then at least with confidence, in front of any crowd - whether it's a serious work event or a best friend's wedding.
As humble as it is motivating, this is a guide to finding your voice, even if it's a bit croaky at first, and a reassuring affirmation that we all have something to say.
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Perfectly read.
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The whole book merges perfectly between chapters and it's 1 smooth narrative from start to finish
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