Aprenda a hablar sin miedo

by Graham Davies

LA COMUNICACIÓN ES LA CLAVE PARA EL ÉXITO. DESCUBRA EL MÉTODO PARA HABLAR CON SEGURIDAD Y CONVENCER CON SUS PRESENTACIONES. «No conozco a nadie que pueda ostentar el título de "coach de las presentaciones" con más méritos que Graham.»Daniel Finklestein, director ejecutivo, The Times «Tanto si es usted primer ministro como si es director ejecutivo, o alguien que necesita causar impacto en los demás, debe leer este libro, innovador y crítico, de Graham Davies.» Neil Sherlock, socio, KPMG «Sinceramente, este libro me irrita, porque me encantaría que Graham lo hubiera escrito hace veinte años. De haber sido así, quizá no habría tenido que pasarme innumerables horas torturado por inversores de banca que creen que "presentar" significa leer en voz alta todas las palabras que aparecen en sus diapositivas». Richard Klein, director general, Bank of America Merrill Lynch «Nunca más volverá a cometer el delito de aburrir a su audiencia con interminables frases cortas.» Penny Philpot, vicepresidente, Worldwide Partner Services, Oracle «Graham Davies es un maestro del humor que demuestra que la mejor manera de exponer un asunto serio es contando un buen chiste.» Boris Johnson, alcalde de Londres

Genres: Business, Communication, Nonfiction, Self Help

312 pages, Paperback

First published November 9, 2010

About the author

Graham’s career as a Professional Speaker started 33 years ago, shortly after he was elected President of the Cambridge Union Society.
For the first 12 years after Cambridge, he practised Law at the London Criminal Bar whilst simultaneously performing After Dinner Speeches for dozens of association and corporate clients in several different countries.
His Bluechip clients include all the usual suspects: Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Toyota, McKinsey, Deutsche Bank, UBS, HSBC, Mars and PWC.
In 1998, when the frequency of After Dinner Speeches got to over 100 a year, Graham left the Bar and branched out into daytime Keynoting and Compering / Facilitation, as well as elaborate hoaxes as a Corporate Imposter.
Hoax identities have included the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, the Wax Director of Madame Tussauds, a Professor of Total Quality Management, a Royal Navy Rear Admiral and the Lead Guitarist of Pink Floyd.
From 1999 onwards, Graham started to provide bespoke Presentation Coaching for CEOs and Politicians. His individual clients include 15 British Cabinet Minsters across several governments, as well as 2 Prime Ministers.
His book, The Presentation Coach, is the most popular title on its subject ever published in the UK. It has helped him to become the leading on-screen Speech Analyst for the BBC, ITV and Sky News.
Graham was a Founding member of the Professional Speaking Association of the United Kingdom and served on its Board for 8 years. He was the first recipient of the Professional Speaking Award of Excellence (the UK equivalent of NSA’s CPAE) in 2009, as well as the first recipient of the Paul Bridle Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Speaking Industry.
He now spends much of his time plotting to make sure that one of his clients becomes the next Prime Minister.

Reviews

[Jeff Bobin · Rating 5 out of 5]

The subtitle caught my attention, Bare Knuckle Brilliance because I spend way too much time listening to presentations that need some tough attention.

Taking you through what he describes as the presentation pipeline there is an outline from the two sentence to multi-day presentation on building impact.

What is your purpose, audience and key points? Excellent material on how to answer those questions and then build a talk that has power.

[Pedro Stein · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excelent book. Davies gives a lot of very specific and well argumented advices in order to prepare a good presentation. And if you are an experienced presenter, or if you work training other people in public speaking, this books offers a lot of good ideas that are useful for explaining complex concepts to beginners.

[AttackGirl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great desk top reference for all who speak in front of people or who help set up presentations. A well thought out book, I foresee many extras and additions coming with cheat sheets and check lists to help influence only become more efficient and effective. I think people who have created tictok have the attention span science down.

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my working life I've been making presentations for about twenty years. How I wish I'd read this book at the start of it! I really can't recommend this book highly enough, although I think that to benefit from the vast amount of experience-driven advice it gives, you have to be in a position to be able to practice what it preaches. If you're looking for a book to help you with a one-off presentation you have to make, I think this might be a bit advanced. On top of that, the style is no nonsense, straight talking and highly opinionated - you're either with this bloke or you deserve to die on your ar*e when the spotlight turns on you! It's also very amusing too, which makes it an enjoyable as well as a practical read. At the same time, it never verges away from the message, and some of the techniques are going to take a lot of commitment if you're going to take the book seriously. If you do, however, I really think that the advice herein is top notch, and I'm already itching to try out some of the tips when constructing and making my next presentation. It's one of the very few business books I'm thinking of buying for other people to benefit from, and I can't give higher praise than that. Excellent stuff.

[Manu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Covers a lot of details around basic approach when it comes to not only preparing a presentation but also around public speaking. Graham shares a detail plan that one should follow when working on presentations. Overall an interesting read & has some good take aways for improving on presentation skills.

[Ahmed Amir Neihoum · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice little read, with some interesting tips on improving presentation skills. Definitely worth reading.