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Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story
Jerry Weissman

ISBN-10: 0131875108
ISBN-13: 9780131875104

Publisher: PH Professional Business
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 336 pp
Published: 01/30/2006

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For students taking courses in Business Communication and Presentations.

 

This updated version of the best-selling presentation skills text includes two new chapters on Virtual Presentations and Effective use of PowerPoint slides.  Focuses on techniques to grab the audience early and tell stories effectively.

This updated version of the best-selling presentation skills text includes two new chapters on Virtual Presentations and Effective use of PowerPoint slides.  Focuses on techniques to grab the audience early and tell stories effectively.

 

Q:  "What presentation skills will your students need most in their careers?"
 PowerPoints and Virtual Meetings- Two new chapters on how to have effective Virtual Meetings and Power Point presentations!  Focuses on how to introduce Power Points after grabbing the audience and how to move past templates.  Plus, this text shows how to use new media to enhance basic presentation skills.
 
 Q:  "How do you teach students to relate to audiences?"
Audience based- Weissman devotes an entire chapter to grabbing the audience, plus integrates throughout specific examples of how to keep them interested.  Getting the audience involved and keeping their attention is the most effective way to deliver an effective presentation.
 
 Q:  "How much emphasis do you place on the use of special effects in presentations?"
Graphics- A presentation is not complete without graphics and special effects.  Weissman emphasizes using a minimal amount of special effects, but using them in a way that maximizes effect. 
 
 Q:  "What can your students learn from real presenters?"
Real-life- Weissman outlines real cases and stories from some of the top presenters that he's worked with as a Communications Consultant.  He's helped hundreds of CEOs with career-making speeches and presentations. 
 
 Q:  "What is the most important time in any presentation?"
90 seconds- The first 90 seconds of any presentation are the most important, and Weissman devotes an entire chapter to getting the audience hooked at the very beginning- even without the help of PowerPoints. 

Foreword to the Paperback Edition  xxiii

Preface: What’s Past Is Prologue  xxvii

Introduction: The Wizard of Aaaahs  xxix

Chapter One: You and Your Audience  3

Chapter Two: The Power of the WIIFY  15

Chapter Three: Getting Creative: The Expansive Art of Brainstorming  27

Chapter Four: Finding Your Flow  51

Chapter Five: Capturing Your AudienceImmediately  83

Chapter Six: Communicating Visually  109

Chapter Seven: Making the Text Talk  123

Chapter Eight: Making the Numbers Sing  143

Chapter Nine: Using Graphics to Help Your Story Flow  157

Chapter Ten: Bringing Your Story to Life  189

Chapter Eleven: Customizing Your Presentation  215

Chapter Twelve: Pitching in the Majors  231

Chapter Thirteen: Animating Your Graphics  237

Chapter Fourteen: The Virtual Presentation  257

Appendix A: Tools of the Trade  273

Appendix B: Presentation Checklists  277

Acknowledgments  283

Index  287

 

Jerry Weissman, the world’s #1 corporate presentations coach, founded and leads Power Presentations, Ltd. in Foster City, CA. His private clients include executives at hundreds of the world’s top companies, including Yahoo!, Intel, Cisco Systems, Intuit, Dolby Laboratories, and Microsoft.

Weissman coached Cisco executives before their immensely successful IPO road show; afterward, the firm’s chairman attributed at least two to three dollars of Cisco’s offering price to Weissman’s work. Since then, he has prepared executives for nearly 500 IPO road shows, helping them raise hundreds of billions of dollars. His techniques have helped another 500 firms develop and deliver their mission-critical business presentations.

Weissman is author of the global bestseller Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2003) and In the Line of Fire (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005) along with its companion DVD, In the Line of Fire: An Interactive Guide to Handling Tough Questions (www.powerltd.com).

 

In Presenting to Win: Persuading Your Audience Every Time, the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences--and move them to action. Jerry Weissman shows presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all--and learn to tell compelling stories that focus on what's in it for their listeners. Drawing on dozens of practical examples and real case studies, Weissman shows presenters how to identify their real goals and messages before they even open PowerPoint; how to stay focused on what their listeners really care about; and how to capture their audiences in the first crucial 90 seconds. From bullets and graphics to the effective, sparing use of special effects, Weissman covers all the practical mechanics of effective presentation--and walks readers through every step of building a Power Presentation, from brainstorming through delivery. Unlike the techniques in other presentation books, this book's easy, step-by-step approach has been proven with billions of dollars on the line, in hundreds of IPO road shows before the world's most jaded investors.

 

Foreword to the Paperback Edition  xxiii

Preface: What’s Past Is Prologue  xxvii

Introduction: The Wizard of Aaaahs  xxix

Chapter One: You and Your Audience  3

Chapter Two: The Power of the WIIFY  15

Chapter Three: Getting Creative: The Expansive Art of Brainstorming  27

Chapter Four: Finding Your Flow  51

Chapter Five: Capturing Your AudienceImmediately  83

Chapter Six: Communicating Visually  109

Chapter Seven: Making the Text Talk  123

Chapter Eight: Making the Numbers Sing  143

Chapter Nine: Using Graphics to Help Your Story Flow  157

Chapter Ten: Bringing Your Story to Life  189

Chapter Eleven: Customizing Your Presentation  215

Chapter Twelve: Pitching in the Majors  231

Chapter Thirteen: Animating Your Graphics  237

Chapter Fourteen: The Virtual Presentation  257

Appendix A: Tools of the Trade  273

Appendix B: Presentation Checklists  277

Acknowledgments  283

Index  287

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