Professional Skills: Presentation Skills

Anyone can learn how to give an effective, engaging presentation. Herea s the secret it doesna t come naturally to anyone. Overcoming anxiety, developing confidence, speaking clearly and creating excitement are skills that everyone needs to strengthen. The keys to success are adopting the propertechnique and then practicing constantly to perfect whatyoua ve learned.

If you are in middle management, to get anything done you must present your ideas to decision makers, and those presentations can be brutal. The stakes are high--one presentation can make or break a career--but the rules are utterly unclear. Tactics and techniques that work well with peers, subordinates, and immediate supervisors can actually work against you when presenting up the chain. Speaking Up is an indispensable resource for anyone who needs to know how to present to those at the highest levels.

Clear information shows clear thinking, and clear thinking informs, influences and impresses. How often do you stare at uninviting and confusing presentations, notes, reports and information packs and get nothing out of them?  It doesn't have to be like this. We could all produce amazingly clear work that has incredible impact - if only we knew how.  This book shows you how. It is full of ideas, tips and principles that are simple and easy to implement, yet brilliantly effective. You will never look at a business document in the same way again.  And your work will impress the people that matter and get the results you want.