Book Description

Organize 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...how to make the most of visuals...set up facilities and equipment...and rehearse to communicate your confidence, conviction and enthusiasm, and much, much more.


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Say it with Presentations helps you define why you're giving the presentation and the audience you need to convince.


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Delivers practical tips and suggestions on everything from setting the perfect tone to delivering a forceful conclusion. DLC: Business presentations--Graphic methods.


From the Back Cover

Use these tips and techniques to organize a powerful, effective business presentation-and deliver it with confidence. You've been asked-or more likely told-to give a business presentation. Say It With Presentations will quickly replace your confusion with confidence, and give you the insights and techniques to make your presentation interesting, inspiring, and, most of all, effective. Tapping decades of experience, Gene Zelazny will help you put together an impressive presentation-one that delivers a focused message and gets the desired results.

This presentation primer includes Zelazny's secrets for success:

The audience's Bill of Rights-Strategies to keep the needs of the audience first and foremost in your mind.
Designing Charts for the Zen of It-Anyone can design dynamite charts, including you. This section shows you how.
Take Humor Seriously-Learn when, why, and how to use humor to get your points across.

Successful presentations can propel you and your business forward. Knowing how to communicate effectively to large and small audiences can enhance your reputation and create exciting new opportunities. So relax, clear your mind, and let the hundreds of valuable tips and pointers Say It With Presentations guide you through your next presentation-and ultimately further along your chosen career path.


About the Author

Gene Zelazny is director of Visual Communications for McKinsey & Company, where he works with the professional consulting staff to create, design, and rehearse presentations. Zelazny frequently shares his ideas at many of the world's major business schools, including Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, INSEAD, London Business School, Oxford, Sloan, Stanford, Tuck, and Wharton. His bestselling Say It with Charts has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Organize 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.

SYNOPSIS

Use these tips and techniques to organize a powerful, effective business presentation-and deliver it with confidence. You've been asked-or more likely told-to give a business presentation. Say It With Presentations will quickly replace your confusion with confidence, and give you the insights and techniques to make your presentation interesting, inspiring, and, most of all, effective. Tapping decades of experience, Gene Zelazny will help you put together an impressive presentation-one that delivers a focused message and gets the desired results.

This presentation primer includes Zelazny's secrets for success:

The audience's Bill of Rights-Strategies to keep the needs of the audience first and foremost in your mind.
Designing Charts for the Zen of It-Anyone can design dynamite charts, including you. This section shows you how.
Take Humor Seriously-Learn when, why, and how to use humor to get your points across.