CONFIDENT PUBLIC SPEAKING FREEWAY GUIDE Secrets for Painless Presentations!

With Susan Leahy’s rapid speaking style and a stream of in-your-face sound effects, this is a production that will require many listeners to crank up their auditory learning speed. But the author/narrator is concise, upbeat, and easy to understand, and she delivers a lot of advice with the time she has. (The Freeway Guides Web site offers additional information.) With a male voice helping with introductions and dialogue, the program offers useful tips on managing stress and explains a range of speaking variables such as word selection, emotional tone, body language, and confidence. The ideas are so rich and numerous that they invite further involvement. As a primer on the basics of making presentations in any setting, this is a winner. T.W. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2010]