Well Said!: Presentations and Conversations That Get Results

by Darlene Price

Whether you’re making a formal presentation, wooing a client, closing a sale, or proposing an idea, persuasive communication is essential.

Based on the same concepts that guide the author’s award-winning training and consulting company, Well Said! teaches business professionals to put themselves in their audience’s shoes and tailor their messages to the needs of decision makers.

Darlene Price reveals the simple but powerful techniques you can use to prioritize, organize, and economize your words so that your communication wins the day. Complete with real-life examples illustrating the concepts in action, this handy guide shows how

use the words and phrases that get people to listen,capture and hold an audience’s attention,gain instant credibility with decision makers,optimize body language,handle QA with finesse,make connections,shine with or without PowerPoint,perfect the elevator pitch.You don’t have to be a motivational speaker to get through to others. By placing words carefully and with confidence, you’ll captivate your audience and make big things happen in your career.

Genres: Business, Communication, Nonfiction

257 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 22, 2012

Reviews

[Kriska · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book definitely gives a lot of tips and tricks. I enjoyed the step by steps and examples given. This book is a little outdated with some information such as chapter 14 on writing emails that gets results. The subject line tips are very long. No one in my current place of employment or even my last do not write email subject lines that long.

The chapter on best dress codes practices I also feel outdated a little. Women do not need to wear panty hose anymore and also some of the advice for men and women were the same. It wasn't necessary to make it separate, it could have said for both men and women. I also feel like the last chapters, 14-17 once again are outdated and repeated. I admit I even skimmed through them and lost interest.

All the chapters before on presentations was very helpful of what to do versus what not to do and how certain things you do and say can be perceived. I currently do not do presentations but this book definitely gave me some confidence to do one. My current place of employment does lots of meetings, trainings and presentations.

[Steven Schwaitzberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had the amazing opportunity to work with Darlene Price in order to prepare for a major presentation. it was an amazing experience and the presentation was the best I have ever given. Then I read the book - (she sent it as a gift).

I could see all of the point she taught me in the sessions in the book - they really worked.

If you cannot work with Darlene directly then the book is the next best thing.

[Joelle B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of great tips! Some are common sense, but depending on the individual common sense may not be so common, so I understand why she included the “obviously” tips.

This book didn’t have to be this long as there were multiple redundancies. But perhaps, she did that to hone in on what she wanted the reader to take away. That style may work for some, but as a reader, I don’t like redundancies.

I walked away with a few extra nuggets of information, I’ll consider it time well spent.

[Kristaps · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's definitely an interesting read.
The book goes into detail about important things you should keep in mind in business world if you want to be recognised as a professional.
It touches different topics ranging from how to dress to how to properly write an email.

[Renee Botelho · Rating 5 out of 5]

ton of very helpful ideas and tips for presenting, conducting effective meetings and showing up well at work

[Akshay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book as we were preparing an agenda for our semi-annual sales team meeting because we wanted to see what (if anything) from here we could include in the education part of the agenda. This was a good, easy book, and definitely has material you can pull from if that's the sort of thing you are looking for. There's a lot of tactical stuff in here, which is decent, but the core message is, "what's the most important part of your presentation?" Everything else mostly follows.

[Abdul · Rating 3 out of 5]

A light book that talks about:

- how to persuade a decision maker
- crafting your presentation
- using effective body language to show confidence
- speaking with the voice of authority
- planning and conducting powerful conversations
- delivering winning webinars

[Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay you won't find many non-fiction or business books on my list, but this one was a good, fast read filled with useful tips.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book has useful tips on speaking well. Each chapter has executive summary which you can use as a checklist when you're in a rush.