Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader [Paperback]

Personal presence is difficult to define but easy to recognize. People with presence carry themselves in a way that turns heads. When they talk, people listen. When they ask, people answer. When they lead, people follow. Personal presence can help you get a date, a mate, a job, or a sale. It can help you lead a meeting, a movement, or an organization.

Presence is not something you’re born with—anyone can learn these skills, habits, and traits. Award-winning speaker and consultant Dianna Booher shows how to master dozens of small and significant things that work together to convey presence. She details how body language, manners, and even your surroundings enhance credibility and build rapport. You’ll learn to use voice and language to demonstrate competence, deliver clear and memorable messages, and master emotions. You’ll learn to think strategically, organize ideas coherently, and convey to others genuine interest, integrity, respect, and reliability.

Take her self-assessment to measure your progress. With Dianna Booher’s expert, entertaining advice, you can have the same kind of influence as the most successful CEOs, celebrities, and civic leaders.Preface
Introduction: Why Should You Care?

Part 1: How You Look
Chapter 1: Consider First Impressions Like First Loves
Chapter 2: Take Stage
Chapter 3: Channel the Passion
Chapter 4: Translate Your Body Language to Credibility
Chapter 5: Don’t Disappear

Part 2: How You Talk
Chapter 6: Be Professional, Not Professorial
Chapter 7: Heed the Highlighter Principle
Chapter 8: Say the Right Thing at the Right Time and Leave Unsaid the Wrong Thing at the Emotional Moment
Chapter 9: Abandon Chicken Little, But Stop Sugarcoating
Chapter 10: Move the Conversation Forward

Part 3: How You Think
Chapter 11: Think Strategically
Chapter 12: Cut Through the Clutter
Chapter 13: Take a Point of View
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