E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-1-118-85671-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Innovative Presentations For Dummies is a practical guideto engaging your audience with superior, creative, andultra-compelling presentations. Using clear language and a concisestyle, this book goes way beyond PowerPoint to enable you toreimagine, reinvent, and remake your presentations. Learn how tostimulate, capture, and hold your audience in the palm of your handwith sound, sight, and touch, and get up to speed on the latestpresentation design methods that make you a speaker who getsaudiences committed and acting upon your requests. This resourcedelves into desktop publishing skills, online presentations,analyzing your audience, and delivers fresh, new tips, tricks, andtechniques that help you present with confidence and raw power.
Focused and innovative presentations are an essential part ofdoing business, and most importantly, getting business.Competition, technology, and the ever-tightening economy have madeout-presenting your competitors more important than ever. Globally,an estimated 350 PowerPoint presentations are given every second.When it's your turn, you need to go high above and far beyond tostand out from the pack, and Innovative Presentations ForDummies provides a winning game plan. The book includesextensive advice on the visual aspect of presentations and, moreimportantly, it teaches you how to analyze your audience and speakdirectly to them. A personalized approach combined with stunningvisuals and full sensory engagement makes for a winningpresentation.
* Learn how to be an innovative, not just "effective" presenterin any situation
* Understand how to read and cater to specific audiences
* Create captivating visual materials using technology andprops
* Creative customize presentations to best communicate withaudiences
More and more employees are being called upon to makepresentations, with or without prior training. With step-by-stepinstruction, vivid examples and ideas and a 360-degree approach topresentations, Innovative Presentations For Dummies willhelp to drastically improve your presentation outcomes as neverbefore.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with InnovativePresentations 5
Chapter 1: Winning Traits of Innovative Presentations 7
Chapter 2: Communicating Innovatively 15
Chapter 3: Coming Across as a Consummate Presenter 33
Part II: The Secrets of Presentation Success 41
Chapter 4: Analyzing and Focusing on Your Audience 43
Chapter 5: Planning Your Winning Strategy 65
Chapter 6: Creating Compelling Content 73
Chapter 7: Honing Your Platform Skills 87
Chapter 8: Choosing Resources and Rehearsing Your Presentation111
Part III: Giving a Great Presentation 127
Chapter 9: Captivating Your Audience 129
Chapter 10: Keeping Your Audience on the Edge of Their Seats145
Chapter 11: Ending on a High Note 159
Chapter 12: Reminding Your Audience of Your Message 175
Chapter 13: Dealing with Questions, Resistance, and AudienceHostility 181
Part IV: Mixing Creativity and Technology 201
Chapter 14: Reinventing How You Create and Use MultimediaVisuals 203
Chapter 15: Using Presentation Board Systems, Flip Charts, andProps 215
Chapter 16: Winning Proposals and Presentation Handouts 239
Chapter 17: Going Beyond Bullets on Slides 261
Chapter 18: Selecting and Set ting Up Hardware 273
Chapter 19: Visiting the Future Today 285
Part V: Tailoring the Message 295
Chapter 20: Giving an Opportunities, Results, and BenefitsPresentation 297
Chapter 21: Presenting to Executives and Decision Makers forSurefire Wins 305
Chapter 22: Condensing Your Pitch: The Elevator-Ride Approach315
Chapter 23: Presenting as an Impressive Team 321
Part VI: The Part of Tens 335
Chapter 24: Ten Traits of Innovative Presenters 337
Chapter 25: Almost Ten Reminders from the Laws of CommunicationImpact 341
Index 345
