7 Steps to Fearless Speaking

by Wilder, Lilyan

• ISBN13: 9780471321590
• ISBN10: 0471321591
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-26
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

"Lilyan Wilder has trained more broadcasters, politicians, and business executives than anybody." - Charles Osgood, Anchor, CBS News Sunday Morning. When people say they'd rather die than address an audience, they're not kidding. Fear of public speaking has even topped death in some surveys. But now top communications consultant Lilyan Wilder offers some sound advice on how to overcome the crippling inhibition of public speaking. Her clients have included media icons Oprah Winfrey and Charlie Rose, former President George Bush, John Sculley, and Katharine Graham. 7 Steps to Fearless Speaking will teach you how to cope with the panic, avoidance, and trauma of speaking as you give the gift of your conviction and experience your voice for the first time. "Lilyan Wilder is the industry's undisputed grand dame of broadcast coaching." -The New York Times. "Lilyan Wilder understands how to make the essential connection between a speaker and an audience. In this book, she tells you how to do it as she has told so well to so many famous communicators." -Charlie Rose. "7 Steps to Fearless Speaking has helped me to speak with persuasion and conviction....Follow Wilder's sage counsel, and you'll find your public speaking much improved and more rewarding." -Ivan Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO, Bell Atlantic. "Lilyan Wilder is simply the best. I continue to use many of her exercises on a daily basis. They're wonderful." -Dr. Bob Arnot, Chief Medical Correspondent, NBC News. "Lilyan Wilder is simply awesome, personally and professionally." -Maria Shriver, Correspondent, NBC News.

Author Biography

LILYAN WILDER is a communications consultant who has worked with the world's most notable public figures, broadcast correspondents at ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and many Fortune 500 companies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
The Five Fears	9	(12)
Let's Get Started	21	(8)
Step One: Experience Your Voice	29	(14)
Step Two: Get a Response and Structure Your Thoughts	43	(18)
Step Three: Establish a Dialogue	61	(16)
Step Four: Tap Your Creativity	77	(18)
Step Five: Learn to Persuade	95	(18)
Step Six: Achieve Your Higher Objective	113	(16)
Step Seven: Give the Gift of Your Conviction	129	(22)
The Seven Steps in Action	151	(14)
Special Situations	165	(18)
The First Aid Kit and the Emergency Kit	183	(8)
Be a Fearless Speaker Every Day	191	(6)
Appendix A: Voice Work	197	(16)
Appendix B: If You Need Medical Help	213	(2)
Selected Readings	215	(2)
Acknowledgments	217	(2)
Index	219