Speaking with Credibility and Confidence

In Speaking with Credibility and Confidence, you'll learn how your posture, voice, eye contact and other non-verbal signals influence how the audience perceives you. The Self-Evaluation Checklist will help you to identify what behaviors you need to work on to raise your effectiveness.

Whether you're meeting one-on-one with clients, interacting with colleagues or delivering a formal presentation, appearing confident and credible will significantly raise your effectiveness. This 30-minute DVD will help you to identify the behaviors that signal confidence and credibility so you can take control of the image you project.

Cara Hale Alter, founder and principal trainer for Speechskills LLC, has trained thousands of business professionals on how to align their body language with their message. Cara defines and demonstrates how your posture, voice, eye contact and other non-verbal signals influence how the audience perceives you. You'll learn what it takes to be intentionally effective, so that you can call on these skills any time you need them - even if the stakes are high, even if you're thinking on your feet, even if your adrenalin is running.

DVD Contents

PART 1 - BODY LANGUAGE

The strength of your posture has a big impact on how much confidence and personal power you project.

• Develop effective sitting and standing posture
• Use gestures effectively
• Use movement with purpose

PART 2 - VOICE

There's a big difference between being technically audible and really reaching your audience.

• Use volume effectively
• Learn the importance of articulation
• Improve your pacing
• Vary vocal expression

PART 3 - EYE CONTACT

Effective eye contact will help you to appear more credible, trustworthy and approachable.

• Develop optimal length of eye contact
• Keep the room engaged
• Read your audience

PART 4 - DERAILERS

Derailers are behaviors that distract the audience from your message.

• Identify non-fluencies ("uhs" and "ums" ) and fillers words
• Avoid "masking"
• Eliminate distracting gestures
• Identify and eliminate "self-commenting"

PART 5 - BALANCING AUTHORITY AND APPROACHABILITY

Highly effective communicators know how to project authority and approachability at the same time. If you need to bolster your image on either end of the spectrum, Speaking with Credibility and Confidence defines and demonstrates the behaviors that tend to send the right signals.

Speaking with Credibility and Confidence
Run time: 30 minutes
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Improving Your Speaking Skills

The best way to differentiate yourself in the workplace is with consistently strong communication skills. But how do you develop those skills?

This 50-minute DVD and companion workbook give you practicing strategies - exercises, games and drills - to help you develop your most vital communication skills, from posture to eye contact to vocal variety.

Improving Your Speaking Skills gives you detailed, step-by-step demonstrations to help you develop your most vital communication skills, from posture to eye contact to vocal variety. For each skill, you'll get several practicing strategies - exercises, games and drills - to help you either correct a bad habit or develop a good one.

The most effective way to work on your speaking skills is to practice them in your real-world situations. But for most of us, the biggest hurdle is focusing on a new skill and putting our thoughts together at the same time.

These exercises are designed to give you an intermediate step, a way to practice on your own -- a way to gain aptitude before you test out your skills in more important conversations.

A companion workbook on CD-ROM includes all the contents of the DVD and more! You'll find additional exercises, a Self-Evaluation Checklist, an Action Plan template and literature excerpts for practicing out loud.

DVD Contents

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

PART 2 - GETTING STARTED

PART 3 - VOLUME AND BREATH SUPPORT

PART 4 - ARTICULATION

PART 5 - PACING AND PAUSING

PART 6 - VOCAL EXPRESSION

PART 7 - EYE CONTACT

PART 8 - STANDING POSTURE

PART 9 - MOVEMENT

PART 10 - HAND GESTURES

PART 11 - EXTRANEOUS FILLER WORDS

PART 12 - EXCESSIVE SMILING

PART 13 - EXCESSIVE HEAD MOVEMENT

PART 14 - MISPLACED UPWARD INFLECTIONS

PART 15 - LACK OF FACIAL ANIMATION

PART 16 - CONCLUSION

Improving Your Speaking Skills
Run time: 50 minutes
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Speaking with Credibility and Confidence

In Speaking with Credibility and Confidence, you'll learn how your posture, voice, eye contact and other non-verbal signals influence how the audience perceives you. The Self-Evaluation Checklist will help you to identify what behaviors you need to work on to raise your effectiveness.

Whether you're meeting one-on-one with clients, interacting with colleagues or delivering a formal presentation, appearing confident and credible will significantly raise your effectiveness. This 30-minute DVD will help you to identify the behaviors that signal confidence and credibility so you can take control of the image you project.

Cara Hale Alter, founder and principal trainer for Speechskills LLC, has trained thousands of business professionals on how to align their body language with their message. Cara defines and demonstrates how your posture, voice, eye contact and other non-verbal signals influence how the audience perceives you. You'll learn what it takes to be intentionally effective, so that you can call on these skills any time you need them - even if the stakes are high, even if you're thinking on your feet, even if your adrenalin is running.

DVD Contents

PART 1 - BODY LANGUAGE

The strength of your posture has a big impact on how much confidence and personal power you project.

• Develop effective sitting and standing posture
• Use gestures effectively
• Use movement with purpose

PART 2 - VOICE

There's a big difference between being technically audible and really reaching your audience.

• Use volume effectively
• Learn the importance of articulation
• Improve your pacing
• Vary vocal expression

PART 3 - EYE CONTACT

Effective eye contact will help you to appear more credible, trustworthy and approachable.

• Develop optimal length of eye contact
• Keep the room engaged
• Read your audience

PART 4 - DERAILERS

Derailers are behaviors that distract the audience from your message.

• Identify non-fluencies ("uhs" and "ums" ) and fillers words
• Avoid "masking"
• Eliminate distracting gestures
• Identify and eliminate "self-commenting"

PART 5 - BALANCING AUTHORITY AND APPROACHABILITY

Highly effective communicators know how to project authority and approachability at the same time. If you need to bolster your image on either end of the spectrum, Speaking with Credibility and Confidence defines and demonstrates the behaviors that tend to send the right signals.

Speaking with Credibility and Confidence
Run time: 30 minutes
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Price: $79.95

Improving Your Speaking Skills

The best way to differentiate yourself in the workplace is with consistently strong communication skills. But how do you develop those skills?

This 50-minute DVD and companion workbook give you practicing strategies - exercises, games and drills - to help you develop your most vital communication skills, from posture to eye contact to vocal variety.

Improving Your Speaking Skills gives you detailed, step-by-step demonstrations to help you develop your most vital communication skills, from posture to eye contact to vocal variety. For each skill, you'll get several practicing strategies - exercises, games and drills - to help you either correct a bad habit or develop a good one.

The most effective way to work on your speaking skills is to practice them in your real-world situations. But for most of us, the biggest hurdle is focusing on a new skill and putting our thoughts together at the same time.

These exercises are designed to give you an intermediate step, a way to practice on your own -- a way to gain aptitude before you test out your skills in more important conversations.

A companion workbook on CD-ROM includes all the contents of the DVD and more! You'll find additional exercises, a Self-Evaluation Checklist, an Action Plan template and literature excerpts for practicing out loud.

DVD Contents

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

PART 2 - GETTING STARTED

PART 3 - VOLUME AND BREATH SUPPORT

PART 4 - ARTICULATION

PART 5 - PACING AND PAUSING

PART 6 - VOCAL EXPRESSION

PART 7 - EYE CONTACT

PART 8 - STANDING POSTURE

PART 9 - MOVEMENT

PART 10 - HAND GESTURES

PART 11 - EXTRANEOUS FILLER WORDS

PART 12 - EXCESSIVE SMILING

PART 13 - EXCESSIVE HEAD MOVEMENT

PART 14 - MISPLACED UPWARD INFLECTIONS

PART 15 - LACK OF FACIAL ANIMATION

PART 16 - CONCLUSION

Improving Your Speaking Skills
Run time: 50 minutes
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Price: $99.95