The book highlights on building self-confidence, preparing for presentations, practicing with people and equipment, choosing a topic, audience analysis and handling difficult questions during and after presentations. The Confident Speaker will guide you through the speech-making process. We believe that it is important to focus on the practical process of speech making because we want this book to be a user-friendly guide to creating, researching and presenting public speeches. The Confident Speaker does not only teach speech principles by describing them but also shows them in action through extensive examples and extracts from real speeches. As a result, readers can read speech examples in the book and use them to practice.