Presenting With Pizzazz

by Sharon L. Bowman

Do you teach, train, or give information to other people? This book is for you! Presenting With Pizzazz gives you a host of easy-to-apply tips and activities for getting learners of all ages more actively involved in their own learning. Based on accelerated learning research and written in a fun, conversational style, this book is a resource gem for today's busy teachers and trainers.

Genres: Teaching

107 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1997

About the author

Sharon Bowman is the president of Bowperson Publishing & Training, Inc. She has been a professional speaker, author, teacher, and trainer for almost forty years. She works with businesses and educational institutions that want to offer exceptional in-house training and professional development programs.

Sharon is a popular speaker at both the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and the Training Magazine Events annual conferences. She is the author of eight popular training books, including the best-selling Pfeiffer/Wiley books titled The Ten-Minute Trainer and Training from the BACK of the Room. Her newest book is Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick.

Sharon practices what she preaches by facilitating highly-interactive, informative, and unforgettable learning experiences. Whether the format is a conference keynote or breakout session, a half-day, full-day, or multi-day training, or webinars and other online learning venues, learners never sit long: they actively participate throughout the entire learning event. The experience is always EPIC: emotional, participatory, image-rich, and connected to their lives.

Join Sharon at one of her learning events and your teaching or training life will change forever!

Reviews

[Ed Schaefer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm preparing to take TBR-VE workshop in a few weeks by reading all of Sharon Bowman's books by publication date.

This is a great short and easy read with a bunch of unique approaches that are simple and quick to implement.

I liked the format as it will be easy to reference in the future, and lots of great example questions and activities to include in your workshops.

While this book does feel a bit dated overall, the techniques are really very timeless. Looking back I can see how some past workshop instructors have used these techniques to great effect.

The biggest limitation of this book is it's written with in person training and workshops in mind. It may be possible to translate some techniques into remote, but many of them seem more difficult or impossible to run in a virtual setting.

Looking forward to reading more of Ms. Bowman's more current works and excited to see what has been adapted or created to work in virtual settings.

[Beth Beutler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent, quick read with several great tips for trainers/presenters. I will incorporate some of these into future speaking engagements!