SPEAKING Like a Leader: Featuring 52 More Leadership Mints

In Speaking Like a Leader, the third book in the Leadership Mints Series, you'll refresh yourself with 52 ways to more fully engage often distracted and disengaged audiences with greater civility and credibility. And in the process you'll learn a 7-step Speechwriting Template, a 4-step process for facing an adversarial media, 6 ways to SEASON your sense of humor, 13 ways to spice your speeches for greater memorability and credibility and tactics in speaking like a leader while responding to a heckler, reprimanding an employee, dealing with an irate customer and tips on speaking persuasively in a meeting and tips on thwarting criticism in a job interview interview. These 52 Leadership Mints -- short stories consumed like a candy mint, quick and on-the-go--illustrate communications and leadership principles. Leaders earn how to effectively gain the attention and retain the interests of their audiences. That's why leaders think of this book at the WD-40 for the podium. Speakers use this book to lubricate their leadership language and ease their friction in a fast moving working environment dominated with app-dependent, smartphone-wielding, YouTube driven, Facebook-infiltrating, and Twitter-oriented, screen-staring employees who are less prone to listening to and concentrating on a public speaker in person and in real time. This WD-40 for the podium greases the gears for on-going effective two-way communications that are face-to-face and screen-free and depend on carefully selected words spoken responsibly and personally not simply tapped out on a keypad impulsively and impersonally. The 298-page book is comprised of three parts. In Part I on CREDIBILITY (Mints 1-17) leader/speakers deal with opposing opinions, admit their mistakes, apologize as necessary, act with humility and seek to convert obligatory hearers into appreciative listeners. With civility. In Part II on MEMORABILITY (Mints 18-35), leader/speakers tap into various speechwriting tools from the significance of metaphors, analogies and perspective comparisons to the power of imagery and gestures. In Part III on CAPABILITY (Mints 36-52) leader/speakers tap into tips and techniques on structuring, writing, rehearsing and delivering a speech to gain greater understanding and acceptance of your message. The green cover suggests well-spoken leaders voice a verdant, growth-oriented mindset and the blue text salutes the calming focus of a poised and purposeful leader at the podium.