CHAPTER 7

Content and Body Language

What You Say and How You Say It

  • Dealing with content to support your opening
  • The logic of messages
  • Writing to be spoken and not to be read
  • How to control body language

Dealing with Content to Support Your Opening

The Logic of a Message

One of the things I want to do is to help people save time in preparing for presentations.

When people prepare content for a presentation, they usually begin with all the content available on a topic. Dealing with all the content available can take time, lots of time. After searching for all the material about a topic, you still won’t have a guide for using the material in your presentation.

Instead of starting with arranging the content on the topic without a purpose, the ...

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