Develop your presentation skills
By: Theo Theobald
Edition: Third edition.
Series: Creating success series; Creating success
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780749475659
Subjects: Business communication; Business presentations
Description: "Going beyond handling nerves and presenting PowerPoint slides, the third edition of Develop Your Presentation Skills offers practical advice on developing a captivating presentation, constructing compelling content, and boosting self-confidence. The book includes three new chapters on delivering a "stripped down"presentation, using new media to engage with the audience, and handling being asked to present on short notice"--

"Going beyond handling nerves and presenting PowerPoint slides, Develop Your Presentation Skills, 3rd edition, provides you with a practical toolkit for developing a belting presentation and improving your confidence along the way. Step-by-step advice includes practical help with unpicking the original brief, understanding just what the audience wants and constructing compelling content that will keep your audience rapt with attention. Complete with anecdotes and expert input to help you avoid disaster, this new edition includes two brand new chapters, helping you to deliver a presentation 'stripped bare' and how to use new media to engage with your audience. Develop Your Presentation Skills, 3rd edition, will help you find your voice and use it with style; to inform, to persuade, to impress. With over one million copies sold, the hugely popular Creating Success series covers a wide variety of topic, with the latest editions including new chapters such as Tough Conversations and Treating People Right. This indispensable business skills collection is suited to a variety of roles, from someone looking to develop their time management skills for a society committee role, to someone with a business idea looking to build a strategic plan"--
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: What's your motivation?; title: Where do you begin?; title: What on earth are you going to say?; title: It's time to write ... now!; title: The power of story telling; title: Using humor; title: What's the point of PowerPoint?; title: Other visual aids; title: Rehearsal; title: Finding your voice; title: Openings; title: Endings; title: Handling your nerves; title: Handling your audience; title: Question and answer session; title: Getting ready some practical aspects; title: As the moment approaches; title: Stripped bare; title: Advanced interactivity; title: Progress report; title: Presentation in action; title: What next?