Develop Your Presentation Skills
How to Inspire and Inform with Clarity and Confidence
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Develop Your Presentation Skills offers step-by-step advice to prepare effectively and nail that presentation. Going beyond just handling nerves and presenting slides, this quick and easy guide provides a practical toolkit for developing a winning presentation and improving your confidence along the way. From unpicking the original brief and understanding just what the audience wants, to facing your performance demons and constructing compelling content, you will keep your audience rapt with attention.Complete with anecdotes and expert input to help you avoid disaster, Develop Your Presentation Skills also includes content to help you to deliver a presentation 'stripped bare' and to use new media to engage with your audience. Fully updated for 2019, this 4th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips to help you find your voice and use it with style; to inform, to persuade, to impress. The Creating Success series of books...
Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.
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Contents
Table of contents
- Develop Your Presentation Skills
- Creating Success Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 01 What’s your motivation?
- 02 Where do you begin?
- 03 What on earth are you going to say?
- 04 It’s time to write… now!
- 05 The power of storytelling
- 06 Using humour
- 07 Visual aids and other tools
- 08 Rehearsal
- 09 Finding your voice
- 10 Openings
- 11 Endings
- 12 Handling your nerves
- 13 Handling your audience
- 14 Question and answer sessions
- 15 Getting ready – some practical aspects
- 16 As the moment approaches
- 17 Stripped bare
- 18 Advanced interactivity
- 19 Progress report
- 20 Confidence under pressure
- 21 What next?