Presentation Essentials: The Tools You Need to Captivate Your Audience, Deliver Your Story, and Make Your Message Memorable

by Anne Bruce, Sardek Love

Must-know tips and tools for crafting and delivering powerful presentations—from the new Essentials Series for business professionals

From one-on-one meetings to pitching to a packed convention center, knowing how to craft and deliver engaging presentations is an essential skill in every line of business.  Whether you’re just starting out or looking to update your understanding of best practices, you’ll find what you need here in three easy to digest

PART THE ESSENTIALS delivers a thorough explanation of presentation types, structure, openers, narrative (storytelling), closers, and more.PART THE ESSENTIALS APPLIED teaches you how to effectively use images, improve your online presentation skills, developing your signature style, and more.PART BEYOND THE ESSENTIALS delivers guidance if you want to become a professional presenter and takes you through the ongoing journey of presenting.PLUS Presentation Structure Guidelines, a Presentation Development Worksheet, a Post Presentation Evaluation, and more!

Packed with smart tips, effective tools, insights, and a skills self-assessment, Presentation Essentials ensures you'll walk away feeling confident of your abilities and prepared to put your skills into action right away.

251 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 25, 2022

About the author

About the Author Anne Bruce is a nationally recognized speaker, workshop leader, and author. Her books with MHP include "Motivating Employees" (Briefcase), "Be Your Own Mentor" (Briefcase), "Building A High Morale Workplace" (Briefcase), "How to Motivate Every Employee" (Mighty Manager), "Perfect Phrases for Documenting Employee Performance Problems", and "Discover True North".

Reviews

[Amy Phelps · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for work - some great tips

[Kari Olfert · Rating 5 out of 5]

If I had to give a presentation, I'd use this book as a pocket guide. Even on a daily small scale, the tips are there.

Chunking it down with the method of three. Using 3 examples or power points to build your message around.

Effectively diagnosing the problem to build an interesting and relevant presentation.

The 8 parts of a powerful presentation. How to basically build the overall structure.

The storytelling formula to make it interesting.

I liked the essential take aways at the end of every chapter.

Then of course the essential toolkit at the last chapter. A good summary at the end esp for non fiction is so key.

[Benjamin Vanevery · Rating 3 out of 5]

The advice is good, but is primarily focused on the *how*. In a book format I would expect a deeper analysis explaining the *why* behind each piece of guidance. I'm otherwise left feeling completely overwhelmed with memorizing information. I'm glad that I read it and I do expect that I'll refer back to it.

[Nick Salenga · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book that ensures you will walk away feeling confident of your abilities & prepared to put your skills into action right away packed with smart tips, effective tools, insights, & skills self-assessment.