Your Public Best - Lillian Brown [0]
Praise
Title Page
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
ONE - YOUR PERSONAL APPEARANCE
FEELING GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF
YOUR CLOTHES
MAKEUP FOR WOMEN
TELEVISION MAKEUP FOR MEN AND WOMEN
HAIR
WOMEN’S HANDS
EYEGLASSES
TWO - YOUR VOICE
THE IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD VOICE
THE STRUCTURE OF YOUR VOICE
VOICE CHARACTERISTICS
VOICE QUALITY
LISTEN TO YOUR VOICE
CHANGING YOUR VOICE
CARE OF YOUR VOICE
BREATHING
THE SPACE BETWEEN YOUR TEETH
PHONETICS
ARTICULATION AND PRONUNCIATION
THREE - PUBLIC SPEAKING
MAKING A COMMITMENT TO GIVE A SPEECH
PREPARING YOUR SPEECH
GIVING YOUR SPEECH
A PRE-SPEECH CHECKLIST FOR OUT-OF-TOWN SPEECHES
BEING A SUBSTITUTE SPEAKER
A SPEECH TO REMEMBER
FOUR - HANDLING THE MEDIA
A TWO-WAY STREET
THE PRESS CONFERENCE
THE PRESS KIT
YOUR RELATIONS WITH MEMBERS OF THE PRESS
THE NEWS MEDIA STAKEOUT
BECOMING A POLITICAL CANDIDATE
GOING ON RADIO
ATTENDING A MEDIA TRAINING SEMINAR
THE PANEL DISCUSSION
THE TELECONFERENCE
CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW
ON A BOOK TOUR
BEING A SPOKESPERSON
ACCEPTING AN AWARD
WORKING WITH AN AGENT
BEING PHOTOGRAPHED
TALKING ON THE TELEPHONE
FIVE - APPEARING ON TELEVISION
PREPARING FOR YOUR TELEVISION APPEARANCE
AT THE TELEVISION STATION
APPEARING ON CAMERA IN A REMOTE LOCATION
THE INVESTIGATIVE TV UNIT
BE A TELEVISION CRITIC
SIX - SURVIVING PUBLIC LIFE
AVOIDING ILLNESS
SMOKING
GETTING EXERCISE
FOOD AND DRINK
STRESS
TRAVEL FATIGUE
THE BOTTOM LINE
FOR FURTHER READING
INDEX
Copyright Page
Praise for Your Public Best
“Eminently practical advice…a notably helpful guide.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An enormously practical guide to managing your appearance as effectively as you manage your business…Everything Brown discusses comes across in the same intelligent, no-nonsense fashion.”
—Mark J. Estren, The Miami Herald
“Lillian Brown is a godsend for anyone who plans to meet the public directly or through the media. If you can’t have Lillian with you in the dressing room, this book is the next best thing.”
—Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas
“There is something of interest here for anyone wanting to improve one’s public image.”
—Jane Larkin, Booklist
“Lillian’s advice helped me look 10 years younger and 10 pounds thinner!”
—Senator Barbara Mikulski
“The definitive work in a very crucial area—public performance. It should be beneficial to the neophyte as well as the experienced person. I cannot help but believe this will become the standard against which all competing books will be measured.”
—Lou Prato, former Director of Broadcasting,
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
“A guide to making successful public appearances. It covers everything from how to deal with a balding head on television (powder it) to handling stage fright (one tip: rehearse, rehearse, rehearse).”
—Sharon Nelton, Nation’s Business
“Business people at all levels, government officials, teachers, congressional staffers, city council members—all of these people must take to the platform and put their best foot forward. This book will be essential to them.”
—Richard Lesher, former President,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
“Lillian Brown’s coaching is the best in the business. She makes even the most inexperienced amateurs look like professionals.”
—James J. Kilpatrick
“Your Public Best is essential reading for anyone whose public presentation is key to their personal success...will help make the right impression for just about any audience the reader will face.”
—Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato
“Lillian Brown brings to this book the wealth of her experience and the respect of the best people in our business.”
—Charlie Rose, The Charlie Rose Show
“Lillian Brown is the greatest—the best voice trainer I ever had. I don’t know what I would have done without her. Thank heaven she has put it all in a book.”
—Dr. Geraldine Cox, Vice President & Technical Director,
Chemical Manufacturing Association
“Lillian Brown is a pro! In her popular performance workshop