Develop Your Presentation Skills

Gain essential skills on delivering presentations with impact, improve your confidence and learn how to present remotely on screen.

Provides step-by-step advice to prepare effectively and nail that presentation. This quick and easy guide provides a practical toolkit for developing a winning presentation and improving your confidence. Complete with case studies and expert input to help you avoid disaster, Develop Your Presentation Skills includes content to help you to deliver a presentation 'stripped bare' and to use new media to engage with your audience. This fully updated 5th 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. 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. 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.

Is part of the bestselling Creating Success series, which has sold over 1.5 million copies and contains practical advice on essential skills to help you develop your career

Autorentext
Theo Theobald is a freelance writer and business consultant with a track record that includes six years in senior sales and marketing management positions with the BBC and a creative writing career embracing major internet and audio production. In 2001 he started his own company, Shocktactic Ltd, and has undertaken major writing and production projects for a host of organisations such as the BBC and CIPD. He is the author of On Message and Develop Your Presentation Skills, also published by Kogan Page.

Inhalt

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction;
  • Chapter - 01: What's your motivation?;
  • Chapter - 02: Where do you begin?;
  • Chapter - 03: What on earth are you going to say?;
  • Chapter - 04: It's time to write now!;
  • Chapter - 05: The power of storytelling;
  • Chapter - 06: Using humour;
  • Chapter - 07: Working from home;
  • Chapter - 08: Rehearsal;
  • Chapter - 09: Finding your voice;
  • Chapter - 10: Openings;
  • Chapter - 11: Endings;
  • Chapter - 12: Handling your nerves;
  • Chapter - 13: Handling your audience;
  • Chapter - 14: Question and answer sessions;
  • Chapter - 15: Getting ready Some practical aspects;
  • Chapter - 16: As the moment approaches;
  • Chapter - 17: Stripped bare;
  • Chapter - 18: Advanced interactivity;
  • Chapter - 19: Progress report;
  • Chapter - 20: Confidence under pressure;
  • Chapter - 21: What next?