How To Present To Absolutely Anyone: Confident Public Speaking and Presenting in Every Situation

by Mark Rhodes

Master the art of public speaking with a mind- and content-based approach to success

How to Present to Absolutely Anyone is the ultimate guide to successful public speaking. Presentations, talks, and speeches are unavoidable in school, work, and even social occasions (have you ever had to deliver a wedding toast?)—but fear of public speaking is statistically more common than fear of death. Author Mark Rhodes once pretended he had crashed his car to avoid doing a presentation! Permanent avoidance will eventually hold you back, but mastering the art of the successful presentation can take you to new heights! This book shows you how Mark eventually learned to love public by setting himself up for a self-sustaining cycle of presentation success.

It takes more than stage presence to make a great presentation—you need great content. Without it, you won’t get the result you’re after, and you will dread the next talk. But if your presentation stands on its own two feet and you manage to banish the stage fright, you get a taste of success that ignites your passion and gets you excited to present every time! Packed with practical advice for both mental anguish and content creation, this book approaches public speaking holistically to arm you with real skills for

Build confidence, reduce fear, and develop the right mindset for public speaking Engage your audience from the start, and reduce first-minute jitters Develop great content that you look forward to presenting each time Go beyond simple body language to reach your audience in a more authentic, organic way

Don’t mumble your way through a PowerPoint or try to put flash over substance. Craft an engaging, informative presentation that people want to see and that you want to present! This book covers performance anxiety, speaking skills, ideas/content, practice, preparation, and audience interaction. How to Present to Absolutely Anyone guides you from fear, to excitement, to success!

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Communication, Audiobook

224 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 26, 2018

Reviews

[Mathangi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picked up this book having felt that public speaking is such an important skill to master.

Some of the key points I took away from this:
1. Presenting and public speaking is a skill you can hone, failure only happens when you give up.
2. Reducing fear can come with visualisation, affirmations (where you focus on the feelings it brings rather than the words), and anchoring of an excited feeling using small habits.
3. Practise, practise, practise. Start as soon as you realise you will be speaking, and build your presentation from there. Sounds logical but I didn’t realise you could practise also by listening to your own recording (in different sections) and trying to remember your main points from there, depending on which section you want to listen to.
4. Start with a hook - say something relevant to the audience and draw them in (why they should listen to your speech) before introducing yourself because you’re more likely to make an impact that way.
5. Be consistent. Keep putting yourself out there and join a local toastmasters if that helps!

[Taylor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just because you speak for a living does not mean you should write a book.

This was an incredibly hard book to read with every paragraph being a run on sentence. There was no data to back up anything being suggested. Just one man’s experience and his scribbled down thoughts.

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I know practice and notes

[Jaber Al Haddad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written book on the subject of presenting. It's equipped with useful tips that will help taking you up from beginner level at speaking.

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

not all of this was relevant to me as i don’t create the content, only deliver it, but still felt the book was worthwhile and boosted my confidence when delivering to a room full of people.

[Ruben · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5.

It was good but I wanted more.

[Wee Meng Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

This self-help is a go-to book for anything that you are fear of when you are going to have a presentation, maybe soon or very very soon. It encompasses many of the remedies that Mark Rhodes, the, author, has shared in summarised form so you can apply it and make use of them on the go. If you read through this book, you'll realise that from the very beginning he sells to you the benefits once you have read the entire book. And at the end, you would have known all the strategies that Mark had came out with so you will be mentally prepared for any presentation to come.

I liked the part when he mentioned that practice and preparation begins when you have agreed to do a presentation for a specific event! That means from the first day, you have to start working on it and not procrastinating!

I'll definitely recommend to every student who will walk into the step of presenting to a class or to the public audience.