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Develop Your Presentation Skills
Develop Your Presentation Skills offers step-by-step realistic advice to improve your confidence, prepare effectively and nail that presentation. Going beyond just handling nerves and presenting PowerPoint slides, Develop Your Presentation Skills provides you with a practical toolkit for developing a belting presentation and improving your confidence along the way. It includes practical help with unpicking the original brief, understanding just what the audience wants, facing your performance demons and constructing compelling content that will keep your audience rapt with attention. Complete with anecdotes and expert input to help you avoid disaster, this new edition also includes two brand new chapters, which help you to deliver a presentation 'stripped bare' and to use new media to engage with your audience. Develop Your Presentation Skills will help you find your voice and use it with style; to inform, to persuade, to impress. The creating success series of books...
With over one million copies sold, the hugely popular Creating Success series covers a wide variety of topics and is written by an expert team of internationally best-selling authors and business experts. This indispensable business skills collection is packed with new features, practical content and inspiring guidance for readers across all stages of their careers.
With over one million copies sold, the hugely popular Creating Success series covers a wide variety of topics and is written by an expert team of internationally best-selling authors and business experts. This indispensable business skills collection is packed with new features, practical content and inspiring guidance for readers across all stages of their careers.
175 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 3, 2011
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April 2, 2026
Read for work. Some tips were very creative and I think will be very helpful. A lot of common sense. British author so some of the humour did not land well, ironic considering there is an entire chapter on humour warning about just that issue. Listened to audiobook, came across as a bit full of himself.
May 26, 2017
Common sense stuff.
July 3, 2022
Just okay.
July 5, 2016
We are being spoiled by Kogan Page presently who have been releasing a number of little guides to help refresh (or jumpstart) one’s knowledge in a range of business-related subjects; this one that looks at presentation skills does not disappoint either!
This is a revision of a previously well-received book, offering readers a practical guide to developing and refining a presentation, focussing on improving the positives such as content and delivery whilst taking away negatives such as nerves and boring the audience to tears. It is a book that sadly many “pros” will ignore, since they know it all don’t they? Despite it clearly being aimed more towards the beginner or inexperienced, it has the potential to teach an “old dog” a new trick or a better trick. It is worth a peruse in any case. It is competitively priced so it won’t break the bank. If it saves just one poor presentation with a nervous presenter and a very sweaty back it is more than worth it. Your audience may thank you and maybe your nervous, unstable stomach will too.
Probably it is fair to say that there is nothing revolutionary in the book, yet this is no criticism. It just has a lot of common sense as well as helpful and actionable advice that you can easily utilise. Whether you need to boost your presentation game for work, school or even a social setting, this can be a great little book to have watching your back, whispering advice into your shell-like!
What is there not to like? It guides you; it helps you and it can support you.
This is a revision of a previously well-received book, offering readers a practical guide to developing and refining a presentation, focussing on improving the positives such as content and delivery whilst taking away negatives such as nerves and boring the audience to tears. It is a book that sadly many “pros” will ignore, since they know it all don’t they? Despite it clearly being aimed more towards the beginner or inexperienced, it has the potential to teach an “old dog” a new trick or a better trick. It is worth a peruse in any case. It is competitively priced so it won’t break the bank. If it saves just one poor presentation with a nervous presenter and a very sweaty back it is more than worth it. Your audience may thank you and maybe your nervous, unstable stomach will too.
Probably it is fair to say that there is nothing revolutionary in the book, yet this is no criticism. It just has a lot of common sense as well as helpful and actionable advice that you can easily utilise. Whether you need to boost your presentation game for work, school or even a social setting, this can be a great little book to have watching your back, whispering advice into your shell-like!
What is there not to like? It guides you; it helps you and it can support you.
March 18, 2016
The idea of speaking and presenting in public is the main subject that the writer tried to deliver.
In general, this book is divided into 3 parts, even the parts were not mentioned by the writer, but it flows down to the end of the book.
Part of before presenting, more to the motivation, why are we talking, what are we going to say, what are our preparation of the talk and other things related to our preparations for the talk.
The second part is the presentation. The writer reminds us of our introduction which he quoted that it as the important part of the presentation. He also touches ending of the speech, how to control QnA session, the importance of concluding and so on.
The last but not least part is after the presentation. This I think was the three final chapter of this book. It touches stripped bare presentation, some vital things like reports, responds and some fact about audiences.
And i think overall, this book is really an aid and a must read for all beginner presenters or anyone who planning to be a speaker. Its nice and well-organised flow of motivations inside.
In general, this book is divided into 3 parts, even the parts were not mentioned by the writer, but it flows down to the end of the book.
Part of before presenting, more to the motivation, why are we talking, what are we going to say, what are our preparation of the talk and other things related to our preparations for the talk.
The second part is the presentation. The writer reminds us of our introduction which he quoted that it as the important part of the presentation. He also touches ending of the speech, how to control QnA session, the importance of concluding and so on.
The last but not least part is after the presentation. This I think was the three final chapter of this book. It touches stripped bare presentation, some vital things like reports, responds and some fact about audiences.
And i think overall, this book is really an aid and a must read for all beginner presenters or anyone who planning to be a speaker. Its nice and well-organised flow of motivations inside.
January 27, 2012
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Short and to-the-point book with a lot of common sense advice on how to maximize the self potential to do presentations; it emphasizes on preparation and practice. Bottom line: prepare and practice; prepare and practice and prepare more and practice more. That is the only way to get better.
Short and to-the-point book with a lot of common sense advice on how to maximize the self potential to do presentations; it emphasizes on preparation and practice. Bottom line: prepare and practice; prepare and practice and prepare more and practice more. That is the only way to get better.
June 17, 2016
A very valuable book, written with homour and in an easy to read way. It's not boring, like books of this nature tend to be.
Filled with useful and practical tips, which will help you craft a well-rounded presentation. The info in the book is not just suited for the business environment. The author makes a point to give insight into other application, like a speech at a wedding, or any situation, where you need to speak to a group of people.
Really well done
Filled with useful and practical tips, which will help you craft a well-rounded presentation. The info in the book is not just suited for the business environment. The author makes a point to give insight into other application, like a speech at a wedding, or any situation, where you need to speak to a group of people.
Really well done
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April 15, 2018Because this is a book I had to read for school, I'm not going to review it or rate it :)
July 14, 2016
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