1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452819903321

Autore

Abela Andrew V. <1965->

Titolo

Advanced presentations by design [[electronic resource] ] : creating communication that drives action / / Andrew V. Abela, Ph.D

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Pfeiffer, A Wiley Imprint, 2013

ISBN

1-118-41676-7

1-299-47573-6

1-118-42028-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/52

Soggetti

Business presentations

Business communication

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why Do We Need to Reinvent the Way We Design Presentations?; The Presentation Challenge Is Greater Than Ever; Current Presentation Standards-Space Age or Sophomoric?; Bad Advice; Bad Examples; The Problem of Presenter-Focus and the Seven Deadly Mistakes of Presentation Design; Good Advice, Not Applied; How to Reinvent Your Presentation: The Extreme Presentation TM Method; Ten Steps for Developing an Extreme Presentation; The Main Insights in This Book, on One Page; Where to Start . . .

If You Have an Important Presentation Due Soon (e.g., Tomorrow Morning) If You Have More Time; How This Book Is Different from All Other Presentation Books; What This Book Is and Is Not-About; The Structure of This Book; PART I: Who?; 1: Audience; Understanding What Types of Communication Will Be Most Effective for Your Audience; Step 1: Identify the Communication Preferences of the Different Personality Types in Your Audience; How to Estimate Your Audience's Personality Types; How to Match Your Presentation Design to Different Personality Types in the Same Audience; Introverts vs. Extroverts

Sensors vs. Intuitors Thinkers vs. Feelers; Judgers vs. Perceivers;



Additional Information About Your Audience; PART II: What?; 2: Objective; Setting a Measurable Objective for Your Presentation; Step 2: Set Specific Objectives for What You Want Your Audience to Think and Do Differently After Your Presentation; The Typical-and Wrong-Way to Set Presentation Objectives; Developing Effective Presentation Objectives; The Curse of the "Update" Presentation; How Do You Know Whether You Have Set the Right Objectives?; 3: Problem Solution

Articulating the Audience's Problem and Your Proposed Solution to It Step 3: Identify a Problem Your Audience Has That Your Presentation Will Contribute to Solving; Choosing the Right Problem; How to Find the Right Problem-The Five Why's; How Do I Find the Right Level of Analysis?; What If the Problem Is So Big That I Cannot Help Them Solve It?; What If All I Can Come Up With Are a Bunch of Small Problems Rather Than One Big One?; What If I'm Just Presenting Information or Providing an Update?; What If I Am Creating a Training Presentation?

What If There Is Clearly a Problem, But the Audience I Am Trying to Engage Just Does Not Seem to Want to Hear About It? Isn't Focusing on "Problems" Rather Negative?; Crafting Your Solution; What If I Only Have a Solution to Part of the Problem?; How Do I Know Whether I Have Chosen the Right Solution?; Should I Include Rival Solutions to the One I'm Offering?; How Do I Handle Really Controversial Solutions?; What If I Just Can't Get My Thoughts Straight? Using the One-Page Memo; What Do I Do If There Really Isn't a Clear Solution to the Problem?; The Importance of Being Audience-Focused

4: Evidence

Sommario/riassunto

Offering a new, exciting approach to the typically conventional practice for creating presentations, this new edition to a popular resource has compiled its material from more than 200 research studies in the fields of communication, marketing, psychology, multimedia, and law. The book demonstrates how to adapt a presentation to different audience personality preferences, what role the data should play and how much of it is necessary, how to turn data into a story, and how to design persuasive-yet-comprehensible visual layouts.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154604603321

Titolo

Science and spectacle in the European Enlightenment / / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Blondel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-90187-7

1-138-24579-8

1-315-24371-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945

Altri autori (Persone)

Bensaude-VincentBernadette

BlondelChristine

Disciplina

509.4/0903

Soggetti

Science - Social aspects - Europe - History - 18th century

Science - Social aspects - Europe - History - 19th century

Science - Social aspects - Europe - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The laboratory, the workshop, and the theatre of experiment / Larry Stewart -- 2. Technology, curiosity and utility in France and in England in the eighteenth century / Liliane Pérez -- 3. Amusing physics / Jessica Riskin -- 4. Experimental physics in Enlightenment Paris : the practice of popularization in urban culture / Michael R. Lynn -- 5. Domestic spectacles : electrical instruments between business and conversation / Paola Bertucci -- 6. The sale of shocks and sparks : itinerant electricians in the German Enlightenment / Oliver Hochadel -- 7. Between commerce and philanthropy : chemistry courses in eighteenth-century Paris / Christine Lehman -- 8. Joseph Priestley and the chemical sublime in British public science / Jan Golinski -- 9. Chemistry on stage : G.F. Rouelle and the theatricality of eighteenth-century chemistry / Lissa Roberts -- 10. Honoré Fragonard, anatomical virtuoso / Jonathan Simon.



3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0107255

Titolo

Città e città : esperienze e riflessioni sulla trasformazione urbana / ANCE ; a cura di Alfredo Martini, Giuseppe Nannerini ; contributi di Giuseppe De Rita ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Edilstampa, stampa 1988

Descrizione fisica

235 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Soggetti

Città - Italia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia