It’s not what you say that counts. It’s what they hear. And believe. Earning credibility on the podium and beyond is the thrust behind the third book in The Leadership Mints Series: SPEAKING Like a Leader. The 270 page book will be released on September 25, 2018. Stop talking. Anyone can give a talk. No listeners required. But speech making demands the audience be fully engaged in the process, especially disgruntled employees, disengaged team members and carping customers, notes the book comprised of 52 short stories on leadership principles called Leadership Mints. Consumed like a breath mint — quick and on-the-go — a Leadership Mint is a short story that energizes leadership behaviors and personalizes leadership principles so they are more easily remembered, more readily acted upon and more fully applied. Like its candy counterpart, a Leadership Mint is easily spooned, quickly digested and immediately reinvigorating. Calling on 30 years of business experience and 10 years as a college adjunct instructor, author Peter Jeff provides readers a virtual candy dish of Leadership Mints — including 14 ways to spice your speeches, and a 7-step speech writing template—to grab ‘n go in real time when a leader’s intervention can do the most good. That’s the intent of a Leadership Mint, a quick pick-me-up via a short entertaining story that provides a key tip or technique to handle a leadership issue like disagreeing agreeably or winning over a disgruntled audience. To help readers apply the key learning, each Leadership Mints ends with Today’s StateMINT — a one -sentence call-to-action summary of the key learning —that you can do today “to keep your leadership thinking in mint condition. SPEAKING Like a Leader (ISBN- 978-069-205-2488, 270 pages )— will be available on Amazon.com ($15 paperback, $7.99 e-book) — also features a bonus: an extensive 15-page, back-of-the-book, section on honing your sense of humor to better exercise the FUNdamentals of leadership thinking and a special section on speaking effectively to manage conflict and to deal effectively with adversarial news media reporters.