HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations

HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations
Author: Nancy Duarte
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422187101

Terrified of speaking in front of a group> Or simply looking to polish your skills? No matter where you are on the spectrum, this guide will give you the confidence and the tools you need to get results. Learn how to wIn over tough crows, organize a coherent narrative, create powerful messages and visuals, connect with and engage your audience, show people why your ideas matter to them, and strike the right tone, in any situation.

How to Say It Persuasive Presentations

How to Say It Persuasive Presentations
Author: Jeffrey Jacobi
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2006-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1440624348

Banish presentation anxiety with tips and techniques that work. Making a powerful presentation requires more than preparing the right materials and rehearsing a speech. This book will turn any anxious reader into a dynamic speaker who engages and inspires listeners. Not only for businesspeople, it can also prove a lifesaver to students and anyone else who must speak in public.

Speak Inspire Empower

Speak Inspire Empower
Author: Mark Robinson
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2020-06-21
Genre:
ISBN:

Speak Inspire Empower If you had to give a speech to a hundred colleagues today, how would you feel? Mark Robinson would feel confident, but it wasn't always that way. In Speak Inspire Empower, he explains his secrets of presenting to any audience - how you can keep them hanging on your every word and persuade them to follow your call to action. In this book, you'll learn how to: - get everyone's attention from your first words - have a clear goal for your presentation - build self-confidence for your talk - learn from the very best public speakers of today - persuade your audience using influence techniques And he relates his personal story, how he gave his first presentation - terrified - to how he ended up on the TEDx stage to give the popular talk: "How to present to keep your audience's attention". This book is unlike any other on public speaking. The techniques are powerful and practical. Each chapter contains exercises for you to implement what you've learnt. His personal story is as inspiring as it is fun to read. And his message of positive feedback is something everyone needs to hear. "Mark has taken the principles learnt from my course and built on them to give a great TEDx speech, a first-class presentation skills workshop and now a winning book! The powerful techniques in this book are well explained, easy to implement and will take your presentations to a new level. And his personal journey, from a terrified presenter to the TEDx stage, is inspiring to all. Highly recommended!" Remco Claassen: Speaker & Best Selling Author "The core of TMC is to inspire engineers to become successful "Employeneurs". Some of them also become successful entrepreneurs. Mark is a living example of this idea: by setting up the highly acclaimed Mark Robinson Training, he is empowering his fellow engineers, and hundreds of others, to communicate confidently, persuasively and clearly! Everyone who wants to give great presentations and grow in self-confidence should follow his workshop and read this book!" Thijs Manders: Founder & President TMC Group, Founder & CEO TMI-Investments.com

Presentation Zen

Presentation Zen
Author: Garr Reynolds
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2009-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0321601890

FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

The As If Principle

The As If Principle
Author: Richard Wiseman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1451675062

Tossing out the rule book, Wiseman--a renowned psychologist with 90,000 Twitter followers and 13 million YouTube viewers--presents a radical new insight on how actions have the power to instantly change the way people think and feel.

Influence

Influence
Author: Robert B. Cialdini
Publisher: Pearson Scott Foresman
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1988
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Influence: Science and Practice is an examination of the psychology of compliance (i.e. uncovering which factors cause a person to say "yes" to another's request) and is written in a narrative style combined with scholarly research. Cialdini combines evidence from experimental work with the techniques and strategies he gathered while working as a salesperson, fundraiser, advertiser, and other positions, inside organizations that commonly use compliance tactics to get us to say "yes". Widely used in graduate and undergraduate psychology and management classes, as well as sold to people operating successfully in the business world, the eagerly awaited revision of Influence reminds the reader of the power of persuasion. Cialdini organizes compliance techniques into six categories based on psychological principles that direct human behavior: reciprocation, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Ethics in Human Communication

Ethics in Human Communication
Author: Richard L. Johannesen
Publisher: Waveland Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1478609125

Broad in scope, yet precise in exposition, the Sixth Edition of this highly acclaimed ethics text has been infused with new insights and updated material. Richard Johannesen and new coauthors Kathleen Valde and Karen Whedbee provide a thorough, comprehensive overview of philosophical perspectives and communication contexts, pinpointing and explicating ethical issues unique to human communication. Chief among the authors objectives are to: provide classic and contemporary perspectives for making ethical judgments about human communication; sensitize communication participants to essential ethical issues in the human communication process; illuminate complexities and challenges involved in making evaluations of communication ethics; and offer ideas for becoming more discerning evaluators of others communication. Provocative questions and illustrative case studies stimulate reflexive thinking and aid readers in developing their own approach to communication ethics. A comprehensive list of resources spotlights books, scholarly articles, videos, and Web sites useful for further research or personal exploration.

Persuasive Speaking

Persuasive Speaking
Author: Bowe Packer
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631879472

"Are you ready to take the big challenge of Sharpening your Speaking Skills?" "Looking for effective strategies to improving your your persuasive speaking skills?" "Ready to take your public speaking to a new level?" This Practical Guide Is Designed For Those That Might Not Really Understand The Science Behind Persuasive Speaking and How It Works and Are Looking To Increase Their Public Speaking Effectiveness. Believe it or not, there are powerful and effective strategies on ways to dramatically improve your fear of public speaking and become an effective presentation and public speaker. And I give them all to you within this guide. You will finally learn how to: Exercise and Strengthen your speaking skills through time tested, practical and efficient methods. Let's face it, if we don't know the strategies and techniques to hone our persuasive speaking skills then how can we expect to feel confident and become an effective speaker. Discover these techniques today and have a blueprint to dramatically improve your speaking skills. The secret to your success will be how well you apply what you discover in this guide. Learn these strategies, apply them and be well on your way to gaining the confidence needed to present information like a professional. Here is just a bit more of what You'll Learn about improving your Persuasive Speaking skills. * The power of emotions and the subconscious mind. * The Domino Model and its effectiveness. * Guidelines for better speech and projection. * The power of story telling. * Special closing techniques you must master. * The extremely effective persuasion techniques to master. * And much more.... Persuasive Speaking is like your muscles in your body. If you work it out, it becomes sharper and more powerful. Gaining the knowledge of these factors and applying a sound strategy to improving your public speaking skills will have you on your way to becoming a more effective speaker for the rest of your life!

Resonate

Resonate
Author: Nancy Duarte
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118008936

Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact, but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often, presentations don't resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action. Just as the author's first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author's approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you'll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact. Author has a proven track record, including having created the slides in Al Gore's Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth Focuses on content development methodologies that are not only fundamental but will move people to action Upends the usual paradigm by making the audience the hero and the presenter the mentor Shows how to use story techniques of conflict and resolution Presentations don't have to be boring ordeals. You can make them fun, exciting, and full of meaning. Leave your audiences energized and ready to take action with Resonate.