Develop Your Presentation Skills

How to Inspire and Inform with Clarity and Confidence

Edition: 5 Date: 03/07/2022 Price: £12.99 ISBN Paperback: 9781398605930 ISBN Ebook: 9781398605947 Pages: 184 Format (mm): 216x138 Product Category: General Subject: Workplace Skills « Helps you face your performance demons, improve your skills and enhance your career prospects « Provides in-depth advice on how to cultivate successful interaction with an audience, find an authentic voice and judge what’s expected of a presenter « New to this edition: Updated to take into account new technologies, the basic rules of presenting on screen and how to interact with other people when working remotely « Is part of the bestselling Creating Success series, which has sold over 1.5 million copies and contains practical advice on essential skills to help you develop your career

Description

Provides step-by-step advice to prepare effectively and nail that presentation. This quick and easy guide provides a practical toolkit for developing a winning presentation and improving your confidence.

Complete with case studies and expert input to help you avoid disaster, Develop Your Presentation Skills includes content to help you to deliver a presentation ‘stripped bare’ and to use new media to engage with your audience.

This fully updated 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips to help you find your voice and use it with style; to inform, to persuade, to impress. From unpicking the original brief and understanding just what the audience wants, to facing your performance demons and constructing compelling content, you will keep your audience rapt with attention.

The Creating Success series of books...

Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you’ll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

Author Information

Theo Theobald has spent most of his adult life in front of an audience, as Management Trainer, Stand-Up Comic and most recently Funeral Celebrant, writing and conducting countless services. A media career including a senior role with the BBC, was followed by 20 years as a freelancer. He is the author of On Message, also published by Kogan Page. He is based in Worcestershire, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 What’s your motivation? 2 Where do you begin? 3 What on earth are you going to say? 4 It’s time to write… now! 5 The power of storytelling 6 Using humor 7 Visual aids and other tools 8 Rehearsal 9 Finding your voice 10 Openings 11 Endings 12 Handling your nerves 13 Handling your audience 14 Question and answer sessions 15 Getting ready – Some practical aspects 16 As the moment approaches 17 Stripped bare 18 Advanced interactivity 19 Progress report 20 Confidence under pressure 21 What next