The Experts Teach: Presentation Skills

Description

In "The Experts Teach: Presentation Skills", we bring together 25 articles from top experts on how to deliver successful business presentations. These experts will show you why so many people go weak at the knees when they face an audience while others come over as confident, entertaining, and authoritative.

The experts include Dianna Booher, who works with organizations to increase their productivity; Mary Sandro, who delivers fun, interactive presentation skills training; and Tom Antion, who has delivered more than 2500 professional presentations.

If you are a manager, these articles will inspire you to become a confident speaker. If you are a trainer, they are perfect for sharing with anyone who wants to master the art of presentations. If you are a learner, they are quite simply professional game-changers.

Preface

In each of “The Experts Teach” series, we’ve gathered together some of the world’s best thinkers to share their ideas with you. Their ideas offer new, refreshing, and insightful ways to look at old themes, allowing you to discover new perspectives, develop your understanding, and change the way you think.

Content

1. When Stage Fright Happens: Use It and Lose It by Judy Ringer
2. Creating an Image – Can a Speech Do it? by Bob Selden
3. How to Update Your Executive Presentation Skills Instantly by Milly Sonneman
4. How to Be a Great Speaker Without Using PowerPoint by Tom Antion
5. 5 Fail-Safe Tips When You Forget or Get Flustered During a Presentation by Dianna Booher
6. The Windows to the Soul by Robert Graham
7. Seven Strategies for Handling Difficult Questions – What to Say When You Don’t Know the Answer by Mary Sandro
8. Business Presentations – How Boring Are You? by Milly Sonneman
9. Public Speaking 101: Speaking Secrets of the Superstars by Colleen Kettenhofen
10. Keep Your Speech Interesting By Being Present Yourself by George Torok
11. Presentations are Better When they Sound Conversational by Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE
12. Exceptional Presentation Skills: Turning Up The Heat by Milly Sonneman
13. The Powerpoint Rules by Robert Graham
14. From Paralysis to Peak Performance by Dianna Booher
15. How Visual Aids Undermine Presentations – Three Ways You May Be Boring Your Audience to Tears by Mary Sandro
16. How Come Nobody’s Listening to Me? by Robert Graham
17. Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Presentation? – How the Pros Make Nervousness Their Friend by Mary Sandro
18. Three Mind-Tickling Techniques to Make Your Presentation Content More Memorable and Motivating by Mary Sandro
19. Seven Habits of Highly Effective Speakers by George Torok
20. The 5 Laws of Public Speaking (PEACE) by Arvee Robinson
21. Saved By a Cartoon: The Six Blind Men and the Elephant by George Torok
22. Special Delivery! Tips for Improving Your Humor by Tom Antion
23. Building Rapport with Your Audience – the “Like” Link by Dianna Booher
24. Suggestions for Using PowerPoint Effectively – or Not at All by Jim McCormick
25. How to Stay Cool When Speaking in Public by Joan Curtis
26. Using Jokes in Your Presentation by Alan Arthur