Public Speaking: Storytelling Techniques for Electrifying Presentations

This book reiterates lots of well known style and content best practices. A quick read will provide the reader with a refresher of good idea. It provides clear examples in the speeches that are broken down line by line. By it's nature it is a bit formulaic by sharing examples that work in the ToastMasters competitions. That is not much of a knock though, as the techniques listed have value for holding an audience and making the presentation memorable. Well worth the price.

This was the kind of book I was looking for. Very practical, with simple explanations and lots of tips and information that can help improve the quality of a speech/presentation. Nice job!

Amazing book! Very quick read, 100% practical! I'm doing seminars in front of hundreds of people since 10 years already and I also was doing acting for a while. The book gave me great ideas which I can apply immediately! The book consists 4 of the greatest public speeches from Toastmasters' champions and deep analysis of each of them. I've read a lot of other books about public speaking, but most of them are full of fluff talk by the authors, in order to write more pages. This one is exactly the opposite - short and to the point. Great read not only for public speakers but also for people who want to shape their communication skills.

The tips are good but the whole experience is of an infomercial. However some of the free video links do not work anymore, instead you go to an add to buy a course.

I found this book easy to ready and jammed with valuable tips to create a compelling speech or presentation. As a current Toastmaster, I was already familiar with the speakers/speeches the author highlights. I loved the author's analysis of their speeches and their tools to create a winning speech. At the end, I found the 35 tips (summarizing the book's content) beneficial when developing any speech for Toastmasters, especially a contest-worthy speech. Thank you, Akash Karia, for writing such a worthwhile book!

Useful information for beginners and even for advanced speakers. The author It is specific and the examples are quite good.

Easy to read, understand, and to the point. If you really are open to learning, it is excellent. If you are arrogant, then it is not the book for you!

This was given as a gift to a new Toastmaster attending a district conference on storytelling. Toastmasters is an international non-profit organization where individuals learn presentation and leadership skills. Most join for the communication skills, and this book is a great first reference, for adding story to engage an audience while making a point for audience benefit. Stories stick, long after statistics have been forgotten.

Thank you for giving such lucid insight on story telling or presentation..Must read for all. Strongly recommend to read it once Khanjan

Author has done a great work in covering all the key points required for a great speech in a small book.

Terrific book - very thoughtfully staged how to engage the audience, how to create excitement and what to do to keep the attention span with your audience so that your message resonates and stays with the audience. Thank you Akash - the book is very much an enrichment of my speaking practice. - This book is an absolute must have and a keeper

Does the thought of presenting feel with you dread , don't know how to start, fill out the middle and then reach the end, with your audience still in the room and still awake! Then this book,full of tips and sage advice, is a bit like completing a jigsaw puzzle, each part carefully constructed to interlock easily together, eventually revealing to your audience the wonderful picture that you wanted your presentation to be. A great must read book.

Akash has done a good job in deciphering speeches that won competitions. The analysis on each speech is simple and easy to relate to. It would have been great if few corporate speeches are deciphered or analysed. Reason being that the audience and needs are different. Nevertheless a good read.