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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460850503321

Autore

Weiss Michael

Titolo

Presentation skills : educate, inspire and engage your audience / / Michael Weiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-60649-877-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 pages)

Collana

Digital and social media marketing and advertising collection, , 2333-8830

Disciplina

658.452

Soggetti

Business presentations

Public speaking

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-93) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Why I wrote this book -- 2. Respect -- 3. First things first -- 4. You -- 5. Them -- 6. Pitch versus presentation -- 7. How -- One more thing -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The popularity of the TED talk has raised the bar for public speaking and presentations. Audiences expect to be educated, inspired, and engaged whether they are sitting in a conference room or an auditorium. Yet too often presenters lack the skills to take command and deliver persuasive and entertaining pitches and presentations. Where most presenters fail is twofold: First, they often give into and accept their fear without fully understanding how their DNA is affecting their body and mind. Second, most people think the presentation is all about them and not the audience, which could not be further from the truth. The audience is the hero of the story and the presenter is their guide to take them on a journey. Like a one-act play, a presentation is not a meeting, it is a performance. And it is the job of the presenter to respect the audiences' wishes, wants, and needs. With the advent of smartphone the job of the presenter, which is to keep the audience's attention on them rather than on the tiny device in their hand, has become increasingly more difficult. The purpose of this book is to inspire you to take the next step in your presentation skills and



practice. I simplify my theories and break it down into three areas: Identifying your unique style (Chapter 4), how to identify and work with different personalities in the audience (Chapter 5), and how to use tools such as PowerPoint, to create engaging and exciting slide decks (Chapter 7). This book is intended to be used as a reference guide when you are creating a new presentation and figuring out how to deliver it to persuade the audience to take action. Whether you are a seasoned presenter, a CEO, a marketing manager, an Executive Director of a nonprofit, or a teacher, there are ideas, tips, and tricks within the pages of this book to help you better understand who you are and how to engage your audience. Throughout the book are exercises to help you identify your own personal and unique style and practice by yourself or with others. Keeping with the theme of storytelling I share my own personal stories and anecdotes to illustrate my theories on how I became the seasoned presenter I am today.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788712703321

Titolo

Pluricentric languages : differing norms in different nations / / edited by Michael Clyne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1992

ISBN

3-11-088814-9

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (487 p.)

Collana

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; ; 62

Classificazione

ES 126

Altri autori (Persone)

ClyneMichael G. <1939-2010.>

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Language and languages - Variation

Standard language

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Pluricentric Languages - Introduction / Clyne, Michael -- Portuguese as a pluricentric language / Baxter, Alan N. -- Spanish as a pericentric language / Thompson, R.W. -- Is Dutch a pluricentric language? / Geerts, G. -- Multiple centres of language development - the case of Tamil / Annamalai, E. -- Swedish as a pluricentric language / Reuter, Mikael -- German as a pluricentric



language / Clyne, Michael -- French as a pluricentric language / Lüdi, Georges -- English as a pluricentric language / Leitner, Gerhard -- Korean as a pluricentric language / Kim, Chin-W. -- Is Arabic a pluricentric language? / Abd-el-Jawad, Hassan R.S. -- Chinese as a plurícentric language / Bradley, David -- Amēn teł hay kay: Armenian as a pluricentric language / Cowe, S. Peter -- Serbo-Croatian as a pluricentric language / Brozović, Dalibor -- Hindi-Urdu as a pluricentric Language / Dua, Hans R. -- Malay as a pluricentric language / Omar, Asmah Haji -- Pacific Pidgin Englishes / Wurm, S. Α. -- Macedonian as an Ausbau language / Tomić, Olga Mišeska -- Epilogue / Clyne, Michael -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- Backmatter