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Four Books To Transform You From a Good To Great Public Speaker

Derek Hughes
4 min readFeb 13, 2023

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You are a decent presenter who knows the basics.

But now you want to up your game and move from someone who just keeps people’s interest to making a huge impact who those who listen to you.

How do you do that?

How do you get the edge in communicating that does more than keep people merely interested?

How do you become someone who makes a HUGE impact through your words?

Here’s the four books I’ve used to dramatically improve the power of my presentations.

Learn how to tell a good story (Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks)

I thought I knew how to tell a good story then I read Storyworthy and was blown away by it. Dicks, who is an award winning storyteller, has some brilliant insights that I had never heard from anyone else.

There are a lot of specific techniques that would be overwhelming to a someone new to public speaking. But if you are used to telling stories then this book is a goldmine of ideas. Dicks uses his own stories to demonstrate how the various techniques work which makes the book brilliantly practical.

I have definitely sensed my own communication becoming more engaging since using these ideas.

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Derek Hughes
Derek Hughes

Written by Derek Hughes

I'm an old bloke with zero writing experience. In 18 months, I built a $35k writing business. Get my free 5-step system: https://www.derekhughes.biz/

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