Speak with Power and Confidence

This title offers tips on everything from sitting down for a job review with your boss, to speaking before a courtroom. A comprehensive guide to improved communication skills, "Speak with Power and Confidence" offers tips on everything from preparing for a speaking engagement, to sitting down for a job review with your boss, to speaking before a courtroom, with the media or in a job interview. It will teach readers how to grab the attention of an audience with their first few words, how to deliver presentations that help close a sale, how to gain the upper hand in any negotiation and how to convey a positive, professional image in job interviews. "Speak With Power and Confidence" will equip readers with the ability to turn on their charisma and self-assurance to mesmerise, whether they're addressing an audience of one or of one thousand. Most importantly, the book gives readers the secrets to gain absolute control of their image, their message and their audience.

Patrick Collins is President of Power Communication Strategies and has lectured and conducted seminars worldwide on negotiation and other communication topics. He is a Professor of Communications and a Department Chair at John Jay College of the City University of New York. Collins worked as a director and producer of ABC News and has a scholarly interest in the impact of mass communication on society. He is also the author of Negotiate to Win!