“ How you say something matters more than what you say,” explains Michael Chad Hoeppner , author of the new book, Don’t Say Um: How To Communicate Effectively To Live A Better Life . This book will help you with all your daily interactions. It will help you by focusing on perfecting your delivery, one of the two primary buckets of all spoken communication. “ Content is what you say, delivery is how you say it,” adds Hoeppner. Hoeppner has coached presidential candidates, prominent CEOs, and Ivy League deans on their communication skills. He shares his best practices in the book, which is filled with kinesthetic techniques and hands-on exercises like finger-walking to stop using filler words or silent storytelling to avoid monotone. You will learn through a variety of simple-to-master exercises: Four common speaking mistakes that inadvertently impact your message and delivery. How the most effective speakers use the 5 Ps of vocal variety—a unique ...
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