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| Toastmaster's International Guide to Successful Speaking: Overcoming Your Fears, Winning over Your Audience, Building Your Business & Career |  | Authors: Jeff Slutsky, Michael Aun
Creator: Toastmasters International
Publisher: Dearborn Trade
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 314,469
Media: Paperback
Pages: 187
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0793123526
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.51
EAN: 9780793123520
ASIN: 0793123526
Publication Date: November 1996
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JEFF SLUTSKY MICHAEL AUN
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 This book gets straight to the point with tips you can use. December 13, 1996
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
Michael Aun and Jeff Slutsky deliver a practical guide to using the skill of speaking to move your business forward, whether you're a speaker or not. A lot of great information packed into an easy read. David DeCurtis, Executive Vice President, Enanti Corporation
 Finally a Speech Book for Geeks ! November 30, 2000
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
There is no passion to write an excellent book here. It might be a good book for geeks. Perhaps Chapter 4 (Engaging Audience) is the reason that I am left with this feeling. That chapter is particularly shallow. Or may be because the author Jefff Slutsky uses the powerful phrase "street fighter" so banally. The book is often very superficial in its advise. Just one example at bottom of page 30. "Humor should be funny." The title of this books touts three objectives. Overcoming fear is one of them. It never gets around to fear in any meaningful way. It is an easy book to read but partly because it does not get intense about any subject. This is a good book if you are going to be talking to very conventional run of the mill crowds where you can be contrived and shallow because you are not going to develop into a great speaker. If you address high powered people this is not the book for you. Co-author Michael Aun won the Toastmasters International championship in 1978. I have listened to this speech several times and it is greatness. Just to be a finalist is a glory--ardently admired. To win is beyond my ability to extol sufficient respect. Their are many good points to this book but they are found in quiet little places and if you have read a number of books on speaking this book can be read to advantage.
OK if you're promoting seminars... March 24, 2000
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book seems to be more directed at those who wish to promote themselves through public speaking. For the rest of us who just want some good, straightforward information on how to become better at speaking in front of a large group, it falls short.
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