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Creating and delivering good presentations is an essential business skill, and like any skill, it can be learned. Each bit of the process—framing your storyline, selecting graphics, using effective language, and knowing how to carry yourself in front of an audience—can be improved with expert advice and practice. If you need to present ideas and content often—both internally and externally to your company—and want to become a more influential speaker, this Learning Path will help you shine.
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Table of contents
- Welcome To The Course
- Be A Badder You
- Start Breaking the Rules Before You Even Hit the Stage
- You Are the Presentation
- Staying Bad No Matter What Happens
- Now Get Out There!
- Presentation Prelude Patterns
- Creativity Patterns
- Slide Creation Patterns
- Temporal Patterns
- Demonstrations versus Presentations
- Stage Prep
- Performance Antipatterns
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Performance Patterns
- Carnegie Hall
- Breathing Room
- Shoeless
- Seeding the First Question
- Make it Rain
- Stakeout
- Lightsaber
- Echo Chamber
- Welcome to the Course
- You're Already an Expert
- Begin with Your Conclusion
- Ask Them How They’d Like to be Persuaded
- Influence Through Listening
- Make Meaning Through Story
- Help Them Rethink the Situation
- Let Them Sample The Thing Itself
- Take Them Behind The Scenes
- Live Your Pitch Ahead of Time
Product information
- Title: Improving Your Presentation Skills
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2016
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491962862
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