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One-day presentation skills seminars are best limited to groups of 40 or fewer persons. You'll always benefit from our fully bundled tuition rates, which ensure that your costs are reasonable and predictable. We never add additional fees for instructor travel, expenses, participant materials, or anything else. Presentation Skills & Public Speaking Books  Presentation Skills for ManagersThe ability to give a great presentation can be a tremendous career booster, while the opposite can keep a manager on a dead-end path. Presentation Skills for Managers is a practical, advice-filled book on how to create and make compelling and persuasive presentations. Besides reviewing material on preparing and delivering effective presentations, it includes new special coverage of the development and use of Powerpoint slides, something not found in most books on presentations.  Say It with Presentations: How to Design and Deliver Successful Business PresentationsOrganize a powerful, effective business presentation and deliver it with style! Say it with Presentations helps you define why you're giving the presentation and the audience you need to convince. This compelling, comprehensive presentation toolkit tells you when, why, and how to use humor, and, yes, silence to get your points across...howto make the most of visuals...set up facilities and equipment...and rehearse to communicate your confidence, conviction and enthusiasm, and much, much more.  Voice Power: Using Your Voice to Captivate, Persuade, and Command AttentionVoice Power, by acclaimed celebrity voice coach Renee Grant-Williams, shows you how to apply positive vocal techniques to business and personal situations, and become a more confident, persuasive presenter and speaker. The book includes a special ''Voice Power Quotient'' self-assessment quiz, which determines your own strengths and weaknesses. Implementing it, you can target just what it is that will help you tap into the power of your own speech.  New Sales Speak: The 9 Biggest Sales Presentation Mistakes and How to Avoid ThemWhile each of us is blessed with a different level of talent, the ability to speak with savvy, polish, style, and humor is a learned skill. Learning how to more effectively sell yourself and your message can give you a tremendous advantage in our competitive world. Written for anyone who gives one-on-one, small group, or large group presentations, whether you are directly in sales, a company manager, teacher, or community volunteer, New Sales Speak identifies the most common mistakes individuals make when presenting.  Effective Communication Skills for Scientific and Technical ProfessionalsIn his trademark shoot-from-the-hip style, Chambers identifies specific real-world challenges that technical professionals face in the workplace, and offers definitive guidelines for enhancing their communication skills-from making presentations to giving and receiving criticism to navigating office politics. Featuring interviews with people in the trenches, as well as self-assessment tools and exercises, Effective Communication Skills will become a valued resource for technical professionals and their colleagues, trainers, and HR departments in all industries.  Knockout PresentationsThe ability to present one's ideas quickly and efficiently is a significant resource in today's business world. Knockout Presentations establishes the key elements to perfecting presentations—knowing oneself; knowing one's audience, and knowing one's material—and challenges presenters to learn how to make a greater impact on their listeners.  Giving a Presentation (Barnes & Noble Basics)So, you've got a command performance -- a talk that, for your professional success (or personal satisfaction), absolutely must wow the crowd. From getting motivated to preparing the final draft, this how-to guide will make the event a triumph. See how to deal with nerves and build confidence. Figure out who your audience will be, and their level of knowledge. Think about how long you have to speak, and then start traveling down the preparation time line!  PowerPoint Advanced Presentation TechniquesGet ready to motivate and excite your audience with your next PowerPoint presentation! This no-nonsense, jargon-free guide dives right in to show you all the exhilarating and powerful PowerPoint features that most people don't even know exist. Packed with priceless information that steers clear of stating the obvious, this book provides technical tidbits, unique ideas, and invaluable tips on avoiding pitfalls, all of which will help you become a more effective and efficient PowerPoint user. Presentation Skills for ManagersThe ability to give a great presentation can be a tremendous career booster, while the opposite can keep a manager on a dead-end path. Presentation Skills for Managers is a practical, advice-filled book on how to create and make compelling and persuasive presentations. Besides reviewing material on preparing and delivering effective presentations, it includes new special coverage of the development and use of Powerpoint slides, something not found in most books on presentations.  Using Stories and Humor: Grab Your Audience (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)From the apparently ''spontaneous'' story that's planned well in advance to an entire presentation that is a story, the author demonstrates how professional speakers use stories and humor, and shows how readers can use these elements to add polish and appeal to their own speeches and presentations. Readers will find a wealth of step-by-step ideas, tips, worksheets, and exercises to help you make effective use of stories.  10 Simple Solutions to Shyness: How to Overcome Shyness, Social Anxiety, and Fear of Public SpeakingEven though statisticians report that more than 37 million Americans suffer from diagnosable social phobia, common sense suggests that nearly all of us have, at one time or another, had clammy palms and knocking knees because of an intimidating, uncomfortable social situation. The party where you don't know a single soul, the presentation you've been dreading for weeks--any of these have the potential to ruin your week without necessarily sending you to the psychiatrist's couch. The ten simple exercises in this book help readers shed their shyness and start socializing with confidence and élan.  Speaking Your Way to the Top: Making Powerful Business Presentations (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)Readers will learn about the homework they should do before they give a presentation. Interested in client meetings? Conference speaking? The author describes what it takes to make each one successful. But that's not all. She also provides dozens of ways to summarize and remember the most important ideas, including planning sheets, quick reviews and lists of tips and techniques.  Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered ApproachThis FlexChoice product features two components: a full-color book and a Website that includes two online chapters, audio clips, pedagogy from the regular Public Speaking, and many interactive activities. The new FlexChoice version of Public Speaking retains the distinctive and popular audience-centered approach of the full book, which emphasizes the importance of analyzing and considering the audience during the public speaking process. With an engaging writing style and numerous examples, this book serves as a foundation for speechmaking as it guides readers through every step of the process.  Motivating Your Audience: Speaking to the Heart (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)''I'm the day when you have to give that 'motivational' speech.'' You swallow reflexively. Your heartbeat seems to increase. ''Oh, did I forget that?'' you think, ''It's coming. Soon. And I don't know what to do.'' Hanoch McCarty describes this moment with great accuracy because he's faced these feelings and conquered them. Pointing out that ideas and facts alone do not motivate very effectively, in this book he offers a recipe for creating motivational speeches that connect with audiences, remaining in their hearts and minds.  Choosing Powerful Words: Eloquence That Works (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)Ronald H. Carpenter invites you to discover the secrets of eloquence that underlie great persuasive speeches. Drawing on familiar presidential addresses and statements from an array of well-known public figures, he explains the tools and techniques by which people make their words effective and memorable.  Delivering Dynamic Presentations: Using Your Voice and Body for Impact (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)You can make dramatic improvements in the details that separate a so-so presentation from one that thoroughly engages your audience. In these pages Ralph Hillman is your speech coach, teaching you the tips and techniques he's learned during his years as a sought-after speaker. Your voice ... your face ... your body ... your appearance ... Hillman covers the whole package.  Between One and Many: The Art and Science of Public Speaking with Free Speech Coach Student CD-ROMWhile maintaining its reputation for balancing the practice of public speaking with its classical and contemporary foundations, the 4th edition of Between One and Many provides students with the tools necessary to reach their audiences at school, in the workplace, and in the community. In this edition the authors use more accessible language, less jargon, and clear links between skills derived from theory and research and the actual practice of those skills.  What to Say for Every Occasion: Model Speeches, Letters, and RemarksThis book gives you the words - the right words for the most commonly occurring situations. It starts from the premise that there are actually a relatively small number of recurring situations - such as weddings, retirements, inaugurations, presenting and accepting awards - that may require a speech. This book turns a light on public speaking. It shows you what to say and how to say it, so you can triumph in any speechmaking situation. Choosing Powerful Words: Eloquence That Works (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)Ronald H. Carpenter invites you to discover the secrets of eloquence that underlie great persuasive speeches. Drawing on familiar presidential addresses and statements from an array of well-known public figures, he explains the tools and techniques by which people make their words effective and memorable.  1001 Humorous Illustrations for Public SpeakingDrawn from a broad array of sources, the topics in this useful guide range from Ability and Acceptance to Words, Work, and Worship. Illustrations are categorized, alphabetized, and indexed for ease of use. Also features space for recording speaking times and places.  Art of Public SpeakingFew texts have been favored with such success. Fifteen after its introduction,The Art of Public Speaking remains the leading text in its discipline. The Art of Public Speaking is successful because it works well for both students and instructors. Instructors have come to rely on its careful explanations,its reinforcing examples,and its attention to the basics that help their tentative students become competent speakers. Meticulously prepared by the author to support and reflect the text,the ancillary materials allow the least experienced teaching assistant and the busiest professor to teach with confidence.  Writing Great Speeches: Professional Techniques You Can Use (Part of the Essence of Public Speaking Series)With endorsements from two of the largest and most influential public speaking groups - the National Speakers Association and Toastmasters International - this book is written by an expert speechwriter whose eloquent voice leads readers through the difficult process of writing a great speech. In these pages a seasoned speechwriter reveals his trade secrets - from analyzing the needs of an audience to leaving them with a satisfying sense of closure - as he guides readers through the process of planning, writing, and honing an outstanding speech.  Public Speaking HandbookAdapted from the authors' top-selling public speaking text, Public Speaking Handbook provides a unique, audience-centered approach in a student-friendly reference format, allowing students to access information quickly and easily. Public Speaking Handbook brings theory and practice together in an understandable and applicable manner. Its distinctive and popular approach emphasizes the importance of analyzing and considering the audience at every point along the way.  The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-DefenseBecome a ''black belt'' in verbal self-defense! For anyone who's ever been pulverized by put-downs, rankled by reproaches, or irritated by insinuations, here's a revolutionary book that devotes itself completely to tactics of verbal self-defense. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense teaches you how to defend yourself diplomatically in delicate family situations and in the hard-nosed business world. And this book is so thorough and easy to understand that you can read it once and become the kind of person everybody admires-the person who stays unruffled during confrontations, who always says the right thing.  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