The New Talkpower
The Mind Body Way to Speak Without Fear (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development)
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ISBN-10: 1-892123-24-X
ISBN-13: 9781892123244
Publisher: Capital Books
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Year: August 1, 2000
Size: 20.32 x 24.64 x 2.03cm
Number of pages: 364
Weight: 658gr
Binding: Paperback
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The New TalkPower is a mind-body system that integrates neurobiology, behavior modification, performance techniques, speech crafting and leadership skills to help you master every aspect of public speaking – from gracious toasts to great speeches. Learn how to breathe, sit quietly, maintain concentration, and reduce rapid heartbeat, trembling, and adrenaline rush triggered by speaking in public. From the TalkPower Action Formula through the Survival Kit for Public Speakers, to the speech-writing-made-easy speech templates, everything you need to be an assured and engaging speaker is here. The first edition of »TalkPower« (Dodd, Mead, 1982) sold more than 60,000 copies and was translated into nine foreign languages. Now the New TalkPower offers Ms. Roger's clinically-tested, perfected, and expanded system to a new generation of fearful public speakers.
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I found Natalie Rogers' text, THE NEW TALK POWER, very useful for a Public Speaking college course. Rogers gives a step-by-step guide made up of »templates« for standard 5-7 minute speeches. She integrates the preparation phases with acting exercises (proper breathing, visualization, etc.)and provides the reader with many examples of speeches. The book is a valuable tool for speech classes. My only quibble is that she might have provided a little more background in interpersonal communication including providing examples and definitions of terms associated with effective verbal and non-verbal communication (i.e., emblems, rhetorical questions, decoding, etc.)
I tried many books on the subject, as well as many techniques. They all seemed to be just alike. Before I had read Talkpower I went online and learned Ms Rogers would be having a workshop in March of 2009. As I began reading the book I realized I needed to participate in the Mar. workshop and called Natalie. I registered for the workshop realizing it was a step I normally would have avoided. Talkpower seemed to be talking to me. I attended the workshop and am so thankful. I met some wonderful people who shared the same anxiety I did. I am 60 years old, and to a degree successful in most things I've attempted in my life, with the exception of public speaking. I wanted to address this problem. The workshop mirrored the book, I later found out, since I had not finished the book when I attended the workshop. I gave a 5-6 min. speech on the 2nd day. I was quite taken aback. Ms Rogers has a technique that will take your mind off the fear as you begin speaking. I could go on about it but don't find it necessary. If you want to address this fear I can't think of a better way, speaking strictly from my experience
That learning a technique can overcome such a powerful fear, but it did! Very well written, and the techniques are fully explained in both the »how to« sense, and the underlying basis for them. Highly recommended.
Why did I buy this book? I was hooked at once when I began to read the introduction, where the author, Natalie Rogers, a former actress, acting teacher and behavioral psychotherapist, reports the feelings she had when she attended a class about »Oral Communication« and witnessed the students' ordeal during presentations:
»Was I the only one aware of the discomfort and loss of concentration? Apparently, the instructor was not concerned. Apart from her command to relax, she ignored the students' profound distress and continued urging them to make eye contact and speak more slowly. `Don't be so nervous,' she'd add, presumably trying to be helpful. `We support you.'
I was bewildered . This wasn't at all like the systematic training I had received in acting school, where we were given intensive coaching for concentration, relaxation, attention, and awareness. Here, except for the suggestion to relax, the sole focus was on the preparation of the speech, with no serious attention paid to the painful loss of confidence that many students were experiencing.«
Natalie's book gives you the training. It teaches detailed, concrete, step-by-step methods to address the fear of public speaking. I have consulted various books about the fear of public speaking during the past couple of years, but this book provides the most powerful and straightforward step-by-step training approach of them all. Just to give only a few concrete examples of how this book is full of extremely valuable information page for page: It provides a detailed step-by-step instruction of correct belly breathing – all the other books which mentioned breathing techniques left me with the impression I had to take »deep« breathes in order to have the desired effects. Another example: The author writes »The idea of managing or confronting your fear is meaningless … People with anxiety about speaking in public cannot overcome their problem with cavalier advice. The only reasonable solution is a method that will eliminate the fear and its devastating effects.«, and later in the book explains why videotape is not the appropriate tool for beginning and fearful speakers – now I understand why training seminars with video, offered by my company, only left me embarrassed and frustrated, and with an even greater feeling of helplessness! And a last example: I always had wondered why visualization exercises had not the desired effects for me, and attributed it to my lack of commitment – now I know better!
This book is much more than only a book on public speaking. It teaches a comprehensive, systematic mind-body training approach on how to prepare yourself for performance situations. In the author's words: »Performance is any situation where you feel that you are being judged or evaluated by others. This ability to detach your thoughts from focusing on the audience and their approval, is a skill that you can develop if you commit yourself to the TalkPower program as described in this book.« Buy this book – it provides you with the practical methods you need to help yourself.
I teach a public speaking class and I'm a longtime member of Toastmasters International. This is the best public speaking book I have ever seen. I am planning to make it the required reading for my public speaking class. The author, Natalie Rogers in an actress and psychologist and has helped people overcome her speaking fears for many years. One thing Toastmasters does not teach is the psychology behind public speaking and the fear of it. I found some articles to cover this. This book does an even better job. There are templates for speeches in the book. You can read it through once, then refer to it when you need it. It is also easy enouch to follow to keep ones interest. Dr. Rogers is a very gentle teacher and I recommend this without question.
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