Gravitas Timeless Skills to Communicate with Confidence and Build Trust
Boost your confidence and transform your speaking skills with wisdom from the ancients What does the word 'gravitas' mean today? In the world of ancient Rome, it was the manner of trust and respect cultivated by capable, strong leadership. In Gravitas: Timeless Skills to Communicate with C...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Melbourne, Victoria :
John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
[2024]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009811318206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface How Opera Taught Me the Key to Gravitas
- Introduction
- Communication and Confidence
- Learnings from the Ancients
- A Different Lens
- How to Use This Book
- Is This Book for You?
- Chapter 1 Gravitas
- Oratory, Gravitas and Rhetoric
- Understanding Oratory
- The rise and fall of oratory
- Understanding Rhetoric
- The five canons of rhetoric
- The twist
- Re-focus on delivery
- Understanding Gravitas
- A balanced approach
- Is gravitas learnable?
- Summary
- Chapter 2 Rethinking the Model of Communication
- Aristotle's Model of Communication
- A misinterpretation: The linear view of Aristotle's Model of Communication
- The Two-Way Communication of Rome
- Audience responsibilities
- How We See Communication Today
- Modern models of communication
- A New Model of Communication: Reshaping the Model for Achieving Gravitas
- Breath as the glue that joins us
- A word of warning
- Summary
- Chapter 3 The Language of the Body
- The Body in Ancient Greece and Rome
- Breath
- Posture
- Gestures of the body
- From Ancient to Modern
- Contemporary body work
- Our modern fascination with body language
- Dropping the ball with breath, posture and body gestures
- Learning Gravitas
- Practice, practice, practice
- The skills of breath
- Summary
- Chapter 4 Gestures
- Gestures in Ancient Greece and Rome
- Why did the ancients focus on gestures?
- The rules
- Dimensions
- Gestures were for all
- Gestures Today
- Modern repetitive patterns emerge from stifled gestures
- A personal experience with gestures
- What went wrong?
- Why did we lose gestures?
- What can we do?
- How does it work?
- Modern Use of Gestures
- The three golden rules of gestures
- Gestures of the hands
- Writing: a modern adaptation
- Practice exercise.
- Gestures of the eyes
- Summary
- Chapter 5 Voice
- The Romans and Voice
- The Romans and volume
- Connection to the body
- The Romans and pitch
- The relationship to singing
- The Romans and authenticity
- Voice and change
- Key takeaway from the Romans on voice
- Voice Today
- Contemporary Vocal Models
- Perceptions of the voice
- Stereotypes, authenticity and the 'fake it to make it' brigade
- Pitch, pace and volume
- Where did we go wrong?
- New ways of looking at pace, pitch and volume
- The role of the breath
- Reshaping the Paradigms and Models around Voice
- Watch for emperors with no clothes
- Developing the voice
- Developing your voice in practice
- Summary
- Chapter 6 Can Women Have Gravitas?
- The Romans and Gravitas for Women
- Ingredients of Delivery
- Posture
- Eye contact
- Voice
- Gesture and movement
- Individuality and artful expression
- The Future of Leadership Is Women
- Summary
- Chapter 7 A Modern World
- Invention
- Arrangement
- Answering a simple question
- Giving a presentation
- Answering difficult emotional questions
- Memory
- Have a framework
- Loci (the memory palace)
- Architectural design
- Linking
- Dissoi Logoi
- Gestures
- Style
- Non-discursive Rhetoric
- Ancient non-discursive rhetoric
- The modern non-discursive world
- Summary
- Conclusion
- References
- EULA.
