How to Speak So That People Want to Listen

By: Julian Treasure, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Professor Julian Treasure

Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

The human voice is a powerful instrument. When it comes to speaking effectively, just as in music, targeted training and regular practice are key. In the modern technological era, a greater number of obstacles exist to overcome for listening and speaking successfully. From conversing with friends to addressing large audiences, a robust communication toolkit equipped to handle these challenges will benefit anyone hoping to convey an important message. A strong and prepared communicator is better received and more accurately understood. 

So what can you do to beef up your communication skills? How can you kick hardened habits, and make lasting changes to your mindset, body, and environment in order to speak and listen more effectively? And is it possible to transform yourself from a nervous babbler to a confident and powerful public speaker? 

The nine invaluable episodes of How to Speak So That People Want to Listen can train you to become a strong and effective communicator for the modern era through a multilayered approach. With TED Talks speaker Julian Treasure as your expert guide, explore how the failure to communicate effectively can negatively impact everything from your physical health to your well-being. Discover how listening and speaking are intimately connected and how a good listener makes for a powerful and cool-headed speaker. Move to the mechanics of speaking and listening from the ear down to the diaphragm. Spend time practicing how to breathe and stretch before important speaking engagements. Understand the difference between content and delivery when it comes to conveying a message, and see how you can improve your skills in each of these two areas. Conclude by examining how you can address large audiences with authority and conviction by changing how you practice, prepare, and deliver your content.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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I got value from this

Was happy I accidentally did some things correctly for delivering a good talk. Many helpful tips

Highly recommended for anyone!

Julian Treasure did a wonderful job of emulating an engaging use of tonality throughout the course. My only wish is that he spent more time on storytelling as it does not come natural for everyone, especially these days.

There are so many great takeaways I have from this audio book as well as exercises and practice that I will use. Also, I know I will revisit key chapters on a regular basis to internalize certain recommendations. I highly recommend this out to anyone as many of his insights are extremely beneficial for improving everyday conversation.

useless

to much talking about nothing. waste of time and money.
the author spend 90% of the time taking about basic and useless concepts.

Don't waste your money buying this title

This book is sold (according to the publisher summary) as a learning tool for those who want to learn how to be an effective communicator. This is a false advertising lie and is wrong to market this title to people who want to learn how to be public speakers.

This book has nine episodes, eight of these episodes are useless fluff with pointless exercises like "take a silent walk in nature", or "use a soundboard to listen to different musical instruments".

Mainly, this book spends five hours telling you to LISTEN in order to be a better communicator. Five and a half hours filled with random information taken from other self-development books about charisma, meditation, and NLP. Now, there is nothing wrong about learning these skills, except, you are not given examples of how to use these skills in real-time.

The author also gives you rules on how to communicate your message, ironically, the author breaks his own rules with this title.
One rule is, know your audience, or, know who you are speaking with. Well, This is an audible title, so, why is the author talking to me as if I was watching a video? is it because this was supposed to be a video course but now he's trying to make some extra money by selling a video course for a listening audience?
Another rule is," be direct and don't waste your listener's patience by adding useless stuff to your presentation". Well, so why is the author wasting our time by telling us how dangerous is to be around loud noises and what is the highest level of sound a person can hear?

The author of this course is a musician and offers little to no experience in public or professional speaking. He constantly refers to his TED talks, but outside of that, there is no useful exercises for someone who wants to speak in one.

In short, this title is called "How to speak so that people want to listen." Well, this title is actually a guide to HOW TO LISTEN SO THAT YOU CAN SPEAK!!!!

Is not a lesson on how to Speak, is a lesson on how to listen coming from a musician who offers no speaking learning material!!!

Finally, there is a review by someone called Peter Pen who gave this title 5 stars. This person's review is a lie, a marketing review that sells you everything this title doesn't have. DON'T LISTEN TO PETER PEN'S REVIEW!!!!

Don't buy this title.
This title cost $17 brand new, well, you can buy three $5 books from Audible's library and get more value for your buck. Buy a charisma book, a public speaking book, and an NLP book and you'll have more useful material than what you will find here.