If you're a professional in business then getting your message across is a critical skill.
In this book, you'll discover all the essentials to becoming a compelling, confident speaker and presenter, from how to develop your voice, through how to craft your message, to how to read and engage with your audience, how to use body language and how become the most compelling and purposeful speaker you can be.
This is much more than a book about 'presentation skills' or 'public speaking'. This is a book about how to build a powerful inner belief that you are highly effective on your feet, and the certainty you can handle whatever may arise.
And if the worst happens? You'll learn how to handle that, too.
NOT JUST FOR PRESENTATIONS!
...Giving Business Presentations
...Leading Team Meetings
...Leading Project Meetings
...Leading Brainstorming Sessions
...Leading strategy groups
...Giving Webinars
...Giving Sales Presentations
...Giving Keynote Talks
...Leading Cross-Functional Teams
...Leading Problem-Solving Sessions
...Running Training Courses
...In fact anywhere you are on your feet in front of a group.
...and this is the book I wish I'd had right back at the beginning.
In my career I've given business presentations, managed meetings, run brainstorming sessions, lectured at university, spoken to business groups, and run training courses internationally for some of the most demanding clients on the planet.
Some lessons I learned the hard way. Others I learned from some of the best teachers in the world. In this book I've drawn together four decades of experience and distilled out the elements that have truly made the most difference for me personally. I hope my take on them will be useful to you as you advance in your career.
This is much more than just about speaking and presenting. There are life skills in here that will set you on a firm footing in both your professional and personal life.
...and this is the book I wish I'd had right back at the beginning.
In my career I've given business presentations, managed meetings, run brainstorming sessions, lectured at university, spoken to business groups, and run training courses internationally for some of the most demanding clients on the planet.
Some lessons I learned the hard way. Others I learned from some of the best teachers in the world. In this book I've drawn together four decades of experience and distilled out the elements that have truly made the most difference for me personally. I hope my take on them will be useful to you as you advance in your career.
This book is much more than just about speaking and presenting. There are life skills in here that will set you on a firm footing in both your professional and personal life.
How to build your personal cababilities as a speaker: your breathing, your voice, your confidence and your 'stage presence'...
How to make sure you are on top of your topic, and what to do if your audience wants to take you off-piste...
How to gain a deep understanding of your audience so you can predict with certainty how to best serve them...
How to craft your message to make it as engaging, compelling and effective as possible, so you echieve the outcome you want...
How to use visual aids to support yourself and your message, to make it as easily accessible and memorable as it can be...
How to confidently deliver your talk or presentation so your audience wants to listen and stay with you all the way...
How to deal with difficult audiences, difficult subjects and difficult situations — and what to do when it all goes wrong...
How to review your talk or presentation so you can take all the learnings and do an even better job next time...