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Silver Goldfish
How do you avoid giving the typical boring corporate presentation?
You need the tools and the approach to delivering memorable presentations. Filled with 64 tips, Silver Goldfish provides 10 keys and a six-step approach to coming across Loud & Clear when presenting.
Silver Goldfish is divided into four parts:
The first section is “The Why.” We make the case for why you should invest in becoming a more engaging and memorable presenter. Here we’ll tackle the biggest myth in communication and explain the meaning behind the Silver Goldfish. We’ll delve into the meaning of “five by five” and silver. We’ll explore the idea that little things can make a huge difference in the metaphor of a goldfish. We’ll also shed the notion of a silver bullet in communication.
The second section is “The What.” Here we explore the keys to coming across “Loud” and “Clear” when you present. Specifically, we’ll address how to rise above distractions with your presentation skills. You’ll learn tips on how to impress, connect, express, facilitate, and entertain your audience. In addition, you’ll understand how to craft your content with clarity and organize your presentation in a way that makes your message memorable.
The third section is “The How.” Here we’ll share the six step S.I.L.V.E.R. process for creating a presentation. The first three letters involve preparation: Starting, Illustrating, and Learning. The second three provide guidance for the actual delivery of your presentation: Vaulting, Educating, and Requesting. We also include the Silver Preparation Grid and the Silver Presentation Matrix.
The last section of the book gives you the Five Key Takeaways.
You need the tools and the approach to delivering memorable presentations. Filled with 64 tips, Silver Goldfish provides 10 keys and a six-step approach to coming across Loud & Clear when presenting.
Silver Goldfish is divided into four parts:
The first section is “The Why.” We make the case for why you should invest in becoming a more engaging and memorable presenter. Here we’ll tackle the biggest myth in communication and explain the meaning behind the Silver Goldfish. We’ll delve into the meaning of “five by five” and silver. We’ll explore the idea that little things can make a huge difference in the metaphor of a goldfish. We’ll also shed the notion of a silver bullet in communication.
The second section is “The What.” Here we explore the keys to coming across “Loud” and “Clear” when you present. Specifically, we’ll address how to rise above distractions with your presentation skills. You’ll learn tips on how to impress, connect, express, facilitate, and entertain your audience. In addition, you’ll understand how to craft your content with clarity and organize your presentation in a way that makes your message memorable.
The third section is “The How.” Here we’ll share the six step S.I.L.V.E.R. process for creating a presentation. The first three letters involve preparation: Starting, Illustrating, and Learning. The second three provide guidance for the actual delivery of your presentation: Vaulting, Educating, and Requesting. We also include the Silver Preparation Grid and the Silver Presentation Matrix.
The last section of the book gives you the Five Key Takeaways.
236 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2020
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May 22, 2020
Part of a color-coded series of business-help books, Silver Goldfish focuses on tips for delivering better, and more efficacious, business presentations. While the theme is sometimes contrived, I was pleasantly surprised to find an incredibly comprehensive and useful guide. If put into practice, the book should help improve your business presentation skills and results.
Several layers of structure make the guidance easy to read and understand. The overarching theme used to explain the theory is LOUD and CLEAR. The former isn't so much volume, although that is one component. By LOUD the authors mean the ability to be heard above the noise in your audiences head - distractions caused by to-do lists, expected calls, deadlines, and the ever-present smart phones. Similarly, CLEAR is the ability to be understood, how you can get your points across such that the audience will remember them, and repeat them. Each of these two main concepts is developed in its own chapter, including Impress, Connect, Entertain, Objective, Simplify and more. These chapters are eminently useful in helping to guide your thoughts.
Another layer uses the S.I.L.V.E.R. acronym as a basis for explaining the details of the presentation itself: Start, Illustrating, Learning, Vaulting, Educating, and Requesting. Here the authors present concrete steps to improve presentations. Many are well-known (after all, there are hundreds of books on how to do good presentations), but others are more insightful, all presented in such a way as to make them memorable - a key goal of everyone's presentation. I particularly liked more obscure tips like use of the "B Key" and "Presenter View" in PowerPoint.
Overall I found this book to be surprisingly worthwhile. Readers should walk away with a plan that, if they practice, practice, practice, will vastly improve their ability to meet their business presentation goals.
Several layers of structure make the guidance easy to read and understand. The overarching theme used to explain the theory is LOUD and CLEAR. The former isn't so much volume, although that is one component. By LOUD the authors mean the ability to be heard above the noise in your audiences head - distractions caused by to-do lists, expected calls, deadlines, and the ever-present smart phones. Similarly, CLEAR is the ability to be understood, how you can get your points across such that the audience will remember them, and repeat them. Each of these two main concepts is developed in its own chapter, including Impress, Connect, Entertain, Objective, Simplify and more. These chapters are eminently useful in helping to guide your thoughts.
Another layer uses the S.I.L.V.E.R. acronym as a basis for explaining the details of the presentation itself: Start, Illustrating, Learning, Vaulting, Educating, and Requesting. Here the authors present concrete steps to improve presentations. Many are well-known (after all, there are hundreds of books on how to do good presentations), but others are more insightful, all presented in such a way as to make them memorable - a key goal of everyone's presentation. I particularly liked more obscure tips like use of the "B Key" and "Presenter View" in PowerPoint.
Overall I found this book to be surprisingly worthwhile. Readers should walk away with a plan that, if they practice, practice, practice, will vastly improve their ability to meet their business presentation goals.
May 28, 2020
If you have ever taken classes or attended presentations, then it is almost certain that you have been a victim of the presentation pits. This is where the presenter could bore the paint off the walls, causing the audience to lose interest and have little to no information transferal. The consequences are that all would have been better off daydreaming, for at least there, a good idea might have emerged.
This book contains advice on how to make a presentation work, where the information is transferred, and no one enters the area of brain lock from inertia. The foremost point is that doing presentations right is an acquired skill that all can learn, it simply takes work, practice, and an overwhelming desire to succeed. Presenting well also takes courage, for it is necessary for you to set yourself up with a potential for failure if you are to succeed. Being dull is safe, but hardly helpful to you and your organization achieving your goals. The same advice for getting to Carnegie Hall also applies to delivering winning talks.
This book is one in a series of “{Insert color here} Goldfish” books written by the authors, there is little in the way of color coding, the precious metal in the title should not be considered the pinnacle. Each of the books deals with a different subject matter. For example, there is “Yellow Goldfish – Nine Ways to Drive Happiness in Business For Growth, Productivity and Prosperity.”
On a side note, on page 21 the authors talk about how the growth of goldfish is limited by the size of their confinement and that they can grow rather large when not confined to a fishbowl. I can personally attest to this. A friend of my father’s was an avid fisherman and he once caught a goldfish in Cedar Lake in Cedar Rapids that was close to 20 inches long. He called us up and we went over to see it. Very impressive and memorable.
This book contains advice on how to make a presentation work, where the information is transferred, and no one enters the area of brain lock from inertia. The foremost point is that doing presentations right is an acquired skill that all can learn, it simply takes work, practice, and an overwhelming desire to succeed. Presenting well also takes courage, for it is necessary for you to set yourself up with a potential for failure if you are to succeed. Being dull is safe, but hardly helpful to you and your organization achieving your goals. The same advice for getting to Carnegie Hall also applies to delivering winning talks.
This book is one in a series of “{Insert color here} Goldfish” books written by the authors, there is little in the way of color coding, the precious metal in the title should not be considered the pinnacle. Each of the books deals with a different subject matter. For example, there is “Yellow Goldfish – Nine Ways to Drive Happiness in Business For Growth, Productivity and Prosperity.”
On a side note, on page 21 the authors talk about how the growth of goldfish is limited by the size of their confinement and that they can grow rather large when not confined to a fishbowl. I can personally attest to this. A friend of my father’s was an avid fisherman and he once caught a goldfish in Cedar Lake in Cedar Rapids that was close to 20 inches long. He called us up and we went over to see it. Very impressive and memorable.
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June 4, 2020I have read all of the Goldfish series and this is my favorite.
The writing is excellent, the instruction is "loud and clear" (5/5) and easy to follow.
Thank you Stan and Alan for all the work you did to generate this book. I know it
was not a simple task to reduce the substantial knowledge you both have on the
subject matter to just 200 pages.
The writing is excellent, the instruction is "loud and clear" (5/5) and easy to follow.
Thank you Stan and Alan for all the work you did to generate this book. I know it
was not a simple task to reduce the substantial knowledge you both have on the
subject matter to just 200 pages.
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