Now streamlined and updated, the book that has literally put millions on the highway to greater accomplishment and success can show you how to have maximum impact as a speaker--every day,and in every situation that demands winning others over to your point of view:

Chairing or addressing a meeting

Convincing a purchasing committee that your product is best

Teaching a method or explaining a subject

Making a fund-raising speech

Accepting an award

Speaking at social gatherings

DALE CARNEGIE BEGAN teaching his first public speaking course in 1912 for the YMCA at 125th Street in New York City. In those days, public speaking was regarded as an art, rather than as a skill, and its teaching aims were directed toward producing orators and platform giants of the silver-tongued variety. The average business or professional man who merely wanted to express himself with more ease and self-con-fidence in his own milieu did not wish to spend his time or money studying mechanics of speech, voice produc-tion, rules of rhetoric, and formalized gestures. Dale Carnegie's courses in effective speaking were immedi-ately successful because they gave these men the results they wanted. Dale approached public speaking not as a fine art requiring special talents and aptitude, but as a skill which any normally intelligent person could ac-quire and develop at will.

Introducfion

Part One / Fundamentals o/Effective Speaking

1. Acquiring the Basic Skills

2. Developing Confidence

3. Speaking Effectively the Quick and Easy Way

Part Two / Speech, Speaker, and Audience

4. Earning the Right to Talk

5. Vitalizing the Talk

6. Sharing the Talk with the Audience

Part Three / The Purpose of Prepared

       and Impromptu Talks

7. Making the Short Talk to Get Action

8. Making the Talk to Inform

9. Making the Talk to Convince

10. Making Impromptu Talks

Part Four / The Art of Communicating

11. Delivering the Talk

Part Five / The Challenge of Effective Speaking

12. Introducing Speakers, Presenting

  and Accepting Awards

13. Organizing the Longer Talk

14. Applying What You Have Learned

Acknowledgments