Presentation skills for quivering wrecks / Bob Etherington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Etherington, Bob, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business presentations.

Public speaking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Business, 2018.

Summary:

Spiders, death, dentists, snakes and flying are in the list of the top ten fears of businesspeople (Book of List). But the top position is held by "public speaking". So great is this fear that most businesspeople have a single objective: to get off the platform as soon as possible. This book, based on a hugely successful course given to thousands of businesspeople, shows how anyone can speak with confidence to an audience of any size. Laced with humour and wit, the author emphasizes that you don't have to be a brilliant orator to be an effective speaker in business. Simply being good is plenty, because 95% of all business presenters are so awful! 10 reasons you must buy this book and avoid "death by slide-show"! 1. Most business audiences have a single objective: to get out of the room. 2. Most business presenters have a single objective: to sit down in the audience again. 3. Most corporate audiences can't remember, 24 hours later, what was presented, the title of the presentation or the presenter's name. 4. Like it or not, 55% of the persuasive power of a presentation is transmitted by the speaker's body language, 38% by the speaker's voice tone and only 7% by the content. 5. 75% of speaker-nerves disappear with correct rehearsal. 6. You can discover how to generate applause when you want it. 7. There is a simple model you can use which will create a terrific presentation for you every time. 8. Bullet points are not what slides are for, and using all capital letters makes long stretches of text very hard to read. 9. Reading words off slides (as most presenters do) puts your audience to sleep in about 30 seconds. 10. Good presenters are very rare. When you become a good presenter you can often negotiate better employment terms, a higher salary, and even get yourself promoted - I did... so can you!.

Contents:

cover

half title page

title page

verso page

contents

section 1

introduction

section 2

the art of "don't worry" for the quivering wreck

section 3

prior preparation prevents pathetically poor performance

section 4

the language of mime-almost

section 5

I'm a big executive not "an actor"... unfortunately you're wrong

section 6

ah yes... you probably can't see that at the back

section 7

it'll be all right on the night

section 8

dealing with the "clinically difficult

about the author

back cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789814794886

9814794880