Presentation Skills for Quivering Wrecks
- 2h 4m
- Bob Etherington
- Cyan Communications Ltd.
- 2006
It’s not what you say, it’s the way you say it.
10 reasons you must read this book and avoid, “Death by slide-show”
- Most business audiences have a single objective: to get out of the room.
- Most business presenters have a single objective: to sit down in the audience again.
- Most corporate audiences can’t remember, 24 hours later, what was presented, the title of the presentation or the presenter’s name.
- Like it or not, 55% of the persuasive power of a presentation is transmitted by the speaker’s body language; 38% by the speaker’s voice tone and only 7% by the content.
- 75% of speaker-nerves disappear with correct rehearsal.
- You can discover how to generate applause when you want it.
- There is a simple model you can use which will create a terrific presentation for you every time.
- Bullet points are not what slides are for and using all capital letters makes text very hard to read.
- Reading words off slides (as most presenters do) puts your audience to sleep in about 30 seconds.
- Good Presenters are very rare. When you become a good presenter you can often negotiate better employment terms, higher salary, and even get yourself promoted.
About the Author
BOB ETHERINGTON is a charismatic and inspiring speaker with a background in sales working for Rank Xerox, Grand Metropolitan and Reuters. Today, he runs his own training company, SpokenWord.
In this Book
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Introduction
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The Art of "Don't Worry" for the Quivering Wreck
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Prior Preparation Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance
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The Language of Mime—Almost
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I'm a Big Executive Not "An Actor" … Unfortunately You're Wrong
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Ah Yes … You Probably can't See that at the Back
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It'll be All Right on the Night
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Dealing with the "Clinically Difficult"
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