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Innovative Presentations For Dummies


Innovative Presentations For Dummies


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von: Ray Anthony, Barbara Boyd

18,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 19.05.2014
ISBN/EAN: 9781118856710
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 384

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<b>Be the speaker they follow with breakthrough innovative presentations</b> <p><i>Innovative Presentations For Dummies</i> is a practical guide to engaging your audience with superior, creative, and ultra-compelling presentations. Using clear language and a concise style, this book goes way beyond PowerPoint to enable you to reimagine, reinvent, and remake your presentations. Learn how to stimulate, capture, and hold your audience in the palm of your hand with sound, sight, and touch, and get up to speed on the latest presentation design methods that make you a speaker who gets audiences committed and acting upon your requests. This resource delves into desktop publishing skills, online presentations, analyzing your audience, and delivers fresh, new tips, tricks, and techniques that help you present with confidence and raw power.</p> <p>Focused and innovative presentations are an essential part of doing business, and most importantly, <i>getting business</i>. Competition, technology, and the ever-tightening economy have made out-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 to stand out from the pack, and <i>Innovative Presentations For Dummies</i> provides a winning game plan. The book includes extensive advice on the visual aspect of presentations and, more importantly, it teaches you how to analyze your audience and speak directly to them. A personalized approach combined with stunning visuals and full sensory engagement makes for a winning presentation.</p> <ul> <li>Learn how to be an innovative, not just "effective" presenter in any situation</li> <li>Understand how to read and cater to specific audiences</li> <li>Create captivating visual materials using technology and props</li> <li>Creative customize presentations to best communicate with audiences</li> </ul> <p>More and more employees are being called upon to make presentations, with or without prior training. With step-by-step instruction, vivid examples and ideas and a 360-degree approach to presentations, <i>Innovative Presentations For Dummies</i> will help to drastically improve your presentation outcomes as never before.</p>
Introduction 1 <p><b>Part I: Getting Started with Innovative Presentations 5</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: Winning Traits of Innovative Presentations 7</p> <p>Chapter 2: Communicating Innovatively 15</p> <p>Chapter 3: Coming Across as a Consummate Presenter 33</p> <p><b>Part II: The Secrets of Presentation Success 41</b></p> <p>Chapter 4: Analyzing and Focusing on Your Audience 43</p> <p>Chapter 5: Planning Your Winning Strategy 65</p> <p>Chapter 6: Creating Compelling Content 73</p> <p>Chapter 7: Honing Your Platform Skills 87</p> <p>Chapter 8: Choosing Resources and Rehearsing Your Presentation 111</p> <p><b>Part III: Giving a Great Presentation 127</b></p> <p>Chapter 9: Captivating Your Audience 129</p> <p>Chapter 10: Keeping Your Audience on the Edge of Their Seats 145</p> <p>Chapter 11: Ending on a High Note 159</p> <p>Chapter 12: Reminding Your Audience of Your Message 175</p> <p>Chapter 13: Dealing with Questions, Resistance, and Audience Hostility 181</p> <p><b>Part IV: Mixing Creativity and Technology 201</b></p> <p>Chapter 14: Reinventing How You Create and Use Multimedia Visuals 203</p> <p>Chapter 15: Using Presentation Board Systems, Flip Charts, and Props 215</p> <p>Chapter 16: Winning Proposals and Presentation Handouts 239</p> <p>Chapter 17: Going Beyond Bullets on Slides 261</p> <p>Chapter 18: Selecting and Set ting Up Hardware 273</p> <p>Chapter 19: Visiting the Future Today 285</p> <p><b>Part V: Tailoring the Message 295</b></p> <p>Chapter 20: Giving an Opportunities, Results, and Benefits Presentation 297</p> <p>Chapter 21: Presenting to Executives and Decision Makers for Surefire Wins 305</p> <p>Chapter 22: Condensing Your Pitch: The Elevator-Ride Approach 315</p> <p>Chapter 23: Presenting as an Impressive Team 321</p> <p><b>Part VI: The Part of Tens 335</b></p> <p>Chapter 24: Ten Traits of Innovative Presenters 337</p> <p>Chapter 25: Almost Ten Reminders from the Laws of Communication Impact 341</p> <p>Index 345</p>
<p><b>Ray Anthony</b> has helped Fortune 500 clients close multi-million dollar deals by designing and developing extraordinarily innovative, solution-selling presentations with superior value propositions for his clients. <b>Barbara Boyd</b> has worked as a marketing and technology consultant for more than 10 years and is the author of several books.</p>
<p><b><i>Learn to:</i></b></p> <ul> <li>Impress with superior, compelling, and creative presentations</li> <li>Use innovative ideas to out-present competitors</li> <li>Identify your audience’s needs</li> </ul> <p><b>Be the leader audiences will follow with innovative presentations</b></p> <p>Do you want to enhance your presentations in creative and compelling ways? In plain English, this hands-on guide shows you how to reimagine, reinvent, and remake your presentations! You’ll get up to speed on the latest presentation design and delivery methods, learn to develop targeted messages, and gain the skills to present with confidence and power.</p> <ul> <li>Awesome business presentations — get a handle on ways to communicate with innovation and come across as a flawless presenter</li> <li>Can the canned presentation — discover the secrets of presentation success, from analyzing and focusing on your audience to creating compelling content and honing your platform skills</li> <li>Grab and keep their attention — find out how to keep your audience on the edge of their seats with time-tested tips on the laws of emphasis, engagement, interest, and repetition</li> <li>Wow them with multimedia visuals — reinvent how you use visuals by combining imaginative board systems and props with the latest technology like tablets and augmented reality</li> <li>Make your message pop — grasp the nuances involved in presenting to executives and decision-makers, presenting as a team, and presenting a pitch</li> </ul> <p><b>Open the book and find:</b></p> <ul> <li>The different types of business presentations</li> <li>How to prepare for any response or behavior</li> <li>Advice on choosing presentation tactics that support your strategy</li> <li>Guidance on rehearsing for custom presentations</li> <li>The importance of starting out with a bang</li> <li>How to end your presentation on a high note</li> <li>Tips on choosing the best hardware and apps for your needs</li> </ul>

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