Focusing on communication, speech making, and the impact of facial expressions, Bender gives readers a full awareness of power presentations in the business environment--offering a method for improvement for the presenter and the company. Well-written and highly informative, this is an essential tool for success in today's fast-changing world.
In The 10 Secrets of Power Presentations, marketing activist Nurhafihz presents a holistic answer as to why some presentations do extremely well and others don’t. With deep insights into the many components that differentiate the normal speech from the extraordinary, from leveraging to designing good presentation slides, this jam-packed value book reveals powerful step-by-step tried and tested methods for executing masterful presentations. This book is a must for anyone who wants to understand the art and science of presenting well and take his own presentation skills to the next level.
Focusing on communication, speech making, and the impact of facial expressions, Bender gives readers a full awareness of power presentations in the business environment--offering a method for improvement for the presenter and the company. Well-written and highly informative, this is an essential tool for success in today's fast-changing world.
FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.
The Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Updated to include Steve Jobs's iPad and iPad2 launch presentations “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide to design your own passionate interfaces with your audiences.” —Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s wildly popular presentations have set a new global gold standard—and now this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to use his crowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs is as close as you'll ever get to having the master presenter himself speak directly in your ear. Communications expert Carmine Gallo has studied and analyzed the very best of Jobs's performances, offering point-by-point examples, tried-and-true techniques, and proven presentation secrets in 18 "scenes," including: Develop a messianic sense of purpose Reveal the Conquering hero Channel your inner Zen Stage your presentation with props Make it look effortless With this revolutionary approach, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to sell your ideas, share your enthusiasm, and wow your audience the Steve Jobs way. “No other leader captures an audience like Steve Jobs does and, like no other book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs captures the formula Steve uses to enthrall audiences.” —Rob Enderle, The Enderle Group “Now you can learn from the best there is—both Jobs and Gallo. No matter whether you are a novice presenter or a professional speaker like me, you will read and reread this book with the same enthusiasm that people bring to their iPods." —David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR and World Wide Rave
You use PowerPoint at work to create strategic plans, executive briefings, research reports and other boardroom-style slides. But could your slides be clearer, more convincing and built in half the time? You bet! Learn a new method for business managers who want to use PowerPoint at work to drive strategy. The Mindworks Presentation Method is based on 40 years of research in brain science, instructional design and information design and will help you to eliminate time wasters and complete PowerPoint decks three times faster, to enhance your credibility by creating visually pleasing slides using simple graphic design rules, to make complex slides easier to understand and avoid "Death by PowerPoint" forever, to make audiences more likely to agree with you by applying the proven principles of master persuaders.
The ability to speak with confidence and deliver winning presentations can accelerate your career, earn people's respect, and enable you to achieve your greatest goals. Anyone can learn to be a great speaker, just as easily as they can learn to drive a car or ride a bike. As one of the world's premier speakers and personal success experts, Brian Tracy reveals time-tested tricks of the trade that you can use to present powerfully and speak persuasively, whether in an informal meeting or in front of a large audience. In Speak To Win, you will learn how to: become confident, positive, and relaxed in front of any audience grab people's attention from the start use body language, props, and vocal techniques to keep listeners engaged transition smoothly from one point to the next use humor, stories, quotes, and questions skillfully deal with skepticism when presenting new ideas wrap up strongly and persuasively This no nonsense handbook is perfect for delivering talks that inform, impress, persuade and motivate. Brimming with unbeatable strategies for winning people over every time, Speak To Win lets you in on his most powerful presentation secrets in this indispensable, life-changing guide.
Think about the most powerful speech you’ve ever heard a leader give. What made that speech–and that speaker–memorable was likely a mix of authenticity, stage presence, masterful delivery, and–above all–an inspirational message. Nobody ever walked out of a great speech saying, “I loved the way she used PowerPoint.” Yet, all too often, speakers rely on tools like it to carry them through a presentation. Real leaders speak to make a difference, to promote a vision, to change the way people think and feel and act. Their ability to lead goes hand in hand with their ability to get their message across, no matter what size audience they’re addressing. Drawing on his years of experience in coaching executives, Christopher Witt shows not just how to make a speech but why and when you should make one. His practical advice on how to take your game to the next level includes: • You are the message. Who you are–your character, experience, values–shapes the message your listeners hear. • Content is king. Delivery is important, but it is only the helpful–or unhelpful–servant of your message. So build each speech around one, and only one, “Big Idea.” • A confused mind always says no. When you want your listeners to say yes, you’ve got to make them understand what you want them to do and why they should care. • Dare to do the unexpected. Leaders know the rules, and they know when, why, and how to break them. In chapters that can be read in five minutes or less and in a book that can be gone through in one sitting, Witt shows you how to become more confident, more commanding, more compelling speakers. But this isn’t just a book about speaking. It’s about leadership and about how people–CEOs and PTA presidents, small business owners and sales reps, middle managers and techno geeks–can present themselves and their ideas with greater impact.
Analytical and to some extent comparative studies examine Chinese nationalism, which the ebbing of Maoist ideology is exposing as a bedrock of loyalty to the state. The nine essays discuss the search for a nation in modern Chinese nationalism, nationalism outside the revolution, cultural imagination and state formation in postwar Taiwan, national economic identity and special economic zones, avant-garde nationalists attitude toward foreigners, and other topics. Paper edition (unseen), $24. 95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
