Public Speaking: A Bridge to Success
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Copyright: 2023
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Now more than ever, the world needs critical thinkers who are able to deliver an engaging message with clarity, verity and vitality. In the inclusionary and nuanced Public Speaking: A Bridge to Success, Simmons helps build the bridge from anxiety and trepidation for the diffident and discouraged budding speaker to success in a variety of public speaking situations.
The author provides the tools for students to overcome anxiety, design better presentations and integrate research, ethics, body language and use of voice into the foundation of how they present and who they are in the world. This book provides the tools and enables students to “build their bridge” with a new lens through which to view communication and public speaking and provides a solid foundation for success. The student will understand the importance of communication frameworks, audience analysis, avoiding fallacy and how to speak truth to power
The goal is to help prepare students to have the foundational skills to deliver in any public speaking context. Throughout the textbook, students are encouraged to understand the science and art of public speaking, to be honest and truthful in their presentation of information and to develop their “voice”.
Public Speaking-A Bridge to Success
- Is filled with practical examples
- Assists students in developing a topic that is germane to them, the environment and the audience
- Considers world issues and how to build truth and persuasion
- Integrates ethics, values, accountability, and social justice with a public speaking lens
- Provides a way for students to upload public speaking video assignments i.e., poetry, social media or other instructor speaking development assignment
- Contains flashcards, relevant videos, application exercises to reinforce the learning and knowledge checks
- Considers typical public speaking i.e., informative, and persuasive speaking and other areas including poetry, acceptance speeches, group projects and elevator pitches.
Thank you for helping to build the bridge to successful public speaking.
Forward
Introduction
Dedication
PART I: Building the Foundation
Chapter One: History and Models
Chapter Two: Language
Chapter Three: Listening
Chapter Four: Anxiety
PART II: The Structure
Chapter Five: Audience
Chapter Six: Research
Chapter Seven: Ethics
Chapter Eight: Organizational Patterns and Outlining
Chapter Nine: Breath, Voice and Body
PART III: The Types
Chapter Ten Purpose Persuasive
Chapter Eleven: Purpose Informative
Chapter Twelve: Purpose Entertaining
Chapter Thirteen: Navigating Group Presentations
Part IV: Obelisks
Chapter Fourteen: Presentation Media
Chapter Fifteen: Public Speaking on All Occasions
Epilogue/Conclusion
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Deirdre Simmons, an encouraging motivating speaker, is also a commercial talent, entrepreneur and business professional with practical lived experiences and competencies in human resources, operations, leadership, and public speaking. Her public speaking abilities allow others to see situations and paradigms with clarity as she brings new and interesting twists, as well as clarity, to messages for individuals and the masses.
As a learning and development specialist, STEM keynote speaker (including Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB), Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE), Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) and National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) representative Automated Communities 2050 Game Challenge at Games for Change) and graduation speaker, she has stood before audiences of 10 to 500+ people. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut (a major respected university in the United States) using various pedagogical methods to achieve course objectives and influence lives.
Writing, a key component to public speaking, is also a craft she has honed over the years. Deirdre has authored blogs, employee communications, executive leader speeches, crisis communications and her own speeches. Her thought leadership in communications, culture, organizational development, diversity and human resources can be found in her #MondayMusings on LinkedIn.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Communication with minors in Management and Supervision from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Human Resource Management from the UCONN School of Business, along with various certificates and accommodations. Her background includes volunteering in youth ministry, appearing in commercials and on television, facilitating conference sessions, speaking on leadership and diversity panels, and as a guest speaker for Disrupt HR delivering her session “HR Lessons from Cardi B.” In the past she has worked at her own HR consulting business, as a referring travel agent, Pepsi-Cola, Ford Motor Company, Department of Homeland Security and Bloomingdale’s. In addition to teaching, she is a certified coach helping others reach success, and a strategic team leader of Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut (CONECT) - a social justice organization.
She is married to Rev. Jerry L. Simmons, and they reside in Connecticut.
Now more than ever, the world needs critical thinkers who are able to deliver an engaging message with clarity, verity and vitality. In the inclusionary and nuanced Public Speaking: A Bridge to Success, Simmons helps build the bridge from anxiety and trepidation for the diffident and discouraged budding speaker to success in a variety of public speaking situations.
The author provides the tools for students to overcome anxiety, design better presentations and integrate research, ethics, body language and use of voice into the foundation of how they present and who they are in the world. This book provides the tools and enables students to “build their bridge” with a new lens through which to view communication and public speaking and provides a solid foundation for success. The student will understand the importance of communication frameworks, audience analysis, avoiding fallacy and how to speak truth to power
The goal is to help prepare students to have the foundational skills to deliver in any public speaking context. Throughout the textbook, students are encouraged to understand the science and art of public speaking, to be honest and truthful in their presentation of information and to develop their “voice”.
Public Speaking-A Bridge to Success
- Is filled with practical examples
- Assists students in developing a topic that is germane to them, the environment and the audience
- Considers world issues and how to build truth and persuasion
- Integrates ethics, values, accountability, and social justice with a public speaking lens
- Provides a way for students to upload public speaking video assignments i.e., poetry, social media or other instructor speaking development assignment
- Contains flashcards, relevant videos, application exercises to reinforce the learning and knowledge checks
- Considers typical public speaking i.e., informative, and persuasive speaking and other areas including poetry, acceptance speeches, group projects and elevator pitches.
Thank you for helping to build the bridge to successful public speaking.
Forward
Introduction
Dedication
PART I: Building the Foundation
Chapter One: History and Models
Chapter Two: Language
Chapter Three: Listening
Chapter Four: Anxiety
PART II: The Structure
Chapter Five: Audience
Chapter Six: Research
Chapter Seven: Ethics
Chapter Eight: Organizational Patterns and Outlining
Chapter Nine: Breath, Voice and Body
PART III: The Types
Chapter Ten Purpose Persuasive
Chapter Eleven: Purpose Informative
Chapter Twelve: Purpose Entertaining
Chapter Thirteen: Navigating Group Presentations
Part IV: Obelisks
Chapter Fourteen: Presentation Media
Chapter Fifteen: Public Speaking on All Occasions
Epilogue/Conclusion
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Deirdre Simmons, an encouraging motivating speaker, is also a commercial talent, entrepreneur and business professional with practical lived experiences and competencies in human resources, operations, leadership, and public speaking. Her public speaking abilities allow others to see situations and paradigms with clarity as she brings new and interesting twists, as well as clarity, to messages for individuals and the masses.
As a learning and development specialist, STEM keynote speaker (including Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB), Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE), Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) and National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) representative Automated Communities 2050 Game Challenge at Games for Change) and graduation speaker, she has stood before audiences of 10 to 500+ people. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut (a major respected university in the United States) using various pedagogical methods to achieve course objectives and influence lives.
Writing, a key component to public speaking, is also a craft she has honed over the years. Deirdre has authored blogs, employee communications, executive leader speeches, crisis communications and her own speeches. Her thought leadership in communications, culture, organizational development, diversity and human resources can be found in her #MondayMusings on LinkedIn.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Communication with minors in Management and Supervision from Purdue University and a Master of Science in Human Resource Management from the UCONN School of Business, along with various certificates and accommodations. Her background includes volunteering in youth ministry, appearing in commercials and on television, facilitating conference sessions, speaking on leadership and diversity panels, and as a guest speaker for Disrupt HR delivering her session “HR Lessons from Cardi B.” In the past she has worked at her own HR consulting business, as a referring travel agent, Pepsi-Cola, Ford Motor Company, Department of Homeland Security and Bloomingdale’s. In addition to teaching, she is a certified coach helping others reach success, and a strategic team leader of Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut (CONECT) - a social justice organization.
She is married to Rev. Jerry L. Simmons, and they reside in Connecticut.