7 Seconds to Connect: 3 Steps to Engage Your Audience with Confidence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781734900590)

You're standing in front of the room, and you have to get your point across. You know what you want to say-but your heart is pounding, your throat is dry, and your palms are sweating. You have seven seconds to connect with your audience. Seven seconds! Can you pull it off?

In 7 Seconds to Connect: 3 Steps to Engage Your Audience with Confidence, you'll learn how to open with a bang to capture the attention of the people in front of you. In addition, you'll learn how to structure your opening for maximum audience engagement and buy-in. With these tools, you will:

• Be confident.
• Be heard.
• Be able to engage your audience throughout any type of presentation (online and in-person).

You can benefit from this book whether you speak to board members, management, clients and potential clients, or community groups. You can especially benefit from this book in the age of virtual presentations and speeches. Online audiences have distractions near at hand. You'll be able to engage them throughout your speech by incorporating the three elements of a powerful opening into your talk.

"Start your speech off strong every single time! Is that possible? Yes, but only if you have the right tools.

"That's why I'm absolutely thrilled that Carolyn Jenkins has written this groundbreaking book entitled 7 Seconds to Connect: 3 Steps to Engage Your Audience with Confidence. The best presenters understand that it only takes 7 seconds before their audiences realize whether or not they like them and it only takes 30 seconds before they realize whether or not they want to hear more. That's why it's important to open your speech with a bang and Carolyn has provided a fantastically effective roadmap for doing just that." (From the Foreword by Craig Valentine, 1999 World Champion of Public Speaking)

You'll also gain some online speaking tips from the Appendix on Virtual Presentations. By following these delivery techniques, you'll be able to distinguish your speech from the rest of them.

7 Seconds to Connect will empower you to open your presentations with energy and impact. Don't hesitate! Buy this book now!