The movie, The King's Speech, drew attention to the enormous challenges of public speaking and it can also be a challenge for most people.

This book provides hints on making a formal speech from a podium and techniques to enhance delivery.

It covers specific scenarios: the after dinner speech, delivering an address at a wedding and the delicate task of delivering a compassionate eulogy at a funeral.

It shows readers how to make effective presentations at business meetings, instructional seminars and workshops. It reviews several software programs to create great slides to reinforce a presentation.

This book goes behind the scenes at television and radio studios and how to speak "publically" over the Internet.

Practice and preparation are of vital importance.

This book is all about effective communication: how to impart a message to an audience; whether it be directly, face-to-face or indirectly over the airwaves or over the Internet. For those who want to be effective and dynamic speakers, they should read this book before they do anything else.