Volume 51 Issue 3 -March 2013 : Entertainment
Creating Personal Presence
Author : Dianna Booher
Title: CREATING PERSONAL PRESENCE
Author: DIANNA BOOHER
Publisher: BERRETT-KOEHLER PUBLISHERS
Reviewer: Lesego Bogatsu
It is not about status, symbols or position. It is not even about who you are, but about how you are. Presence is not something you have to be born with, it`s something anyone can learn. People with presence look comfortable, speak persuasively, think clearly even understand pressure and act with intention and integrity.
In this comprehensive guide , Award-winning speaker and consultant – Dianna Booher provides scores of practical tips on the physical qualities, attitudes that underlie powerful personal presence, thought processes and communication techniques. You will also be shown how to master the dozens of small significant things that work together to convey personal presence.
The way you dress-up, body language, manners and even your surroundings enhance credibility and build rapport. Things like using your voice and body language to demonstrate competence, thinking strategically, organising ideas coherently to relate to others in ways that convey genuine interest, respect, good humor and reliability can help you get a date, a mate a job or a sale. ‘For crying out loud`, this book can even help you lead a nation. Presence can take you wherever you want to go.
With Dianna Booher`s expert, entertaining advices, you can have the same kind of influence as the most successful CEOs, celebrities and civic-business leaders.
It may be difficult to define but we all know presence when we encounter it. Someone walks into the room and people step aside, heads turning. When those with presence speak, people listen. When they ask, people answer. When they lead, people follow.
Reading this book will enable readers to become compelling leaders, no matter what their current position.