Business Presentation

Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide is just what the name implies: a hands-on, detailed description of facilitating Open Space Technology (OST). OST is an effective, economical, fast, and easily repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 2,000 participants that has been used in thousands of organizations in 134 countries and just keeps growing in popularity. Written by the originator of the method, this is the most authoritative book on the rationale, procedures, and requirements of OST.

You probably hate giving presentations. You probably hate listening to them too. Why? Because most business presentations are too long, too detailed, too boring . . . and submerged under a blizzard of PowerPoint. But the single most important presentational tool known to man isn't a slideshow. It's you. Whether you're speaking to one person across a table, twenty people in a boardroom, or 1,000 people in a ballroom, it's all about the words you say and how you say them.

Great salespeople are made, not born. Now you can learn how to get the winning edge in the art of selling from America's 5 best sales professionals: Martin Shafiroff, the world's #1 stockbroker; Bettye C. Hardeman, America's #1 residential real-estate agent; Joe Gandolfo, the world's #1 life insurance agent; Mary Kay Ash, founder and chairman of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.; and Buck Rodgers, IBM's legendary super-salesman.

In this fun and provocative book, Michael Fanuele, one of the world’s most successful marketing strategists, shares The Six Skills of Inspiration. With insights from music, politics, business, neuroscience, and a recipe for radishes, Stop Making Sense shares the creative blueprint that can unleash the inspiring leader in all of us.

In Don't Let Them Catch You Selling, the author nails the essence of sales. In Chapter 5, he points out: "'Please, please give me an appointment,' and 'Please, please buy my product' are not proven sales strategies. It is a natural reaction for all creatures to back away when being pursued." This explains why people resist being sold. The interaction is, apparently, more complicated, however. As noted in the Introduction: people may resist being sold, but are evolutionary predisposed to buy. How to successfully navigate this human contradiction, and achieve success in the sales profession, ...

When you speak do others listen? Does your message land? Do people act upon your words? In business and in life, great communication is the key to getting exceptional results. If you want to be more persuasive, have more gravitas, and build better relationships this audiobook will show you how. Starting his career as an actor, author Dominic Colenso starred alongside some of the UK's most famous performers. He now works with businesses around the world, helping individuals and teams take centre stage and deliver outstanding performances.

Developing the skill to confidently and professionally deliver a speech or presentation is powerful in business! However, the delivery is only one component of a memorable presentation. The structure of the content is crucial in ensuring you effectively and clearly communicate in a manner that helps your audience understand your message. The Ultimate Presentation Roadmap provides the steps to help you write for the right audience and present with confidence!

Love Your Team is a conversation-by-conversation survival guide for sales managers who want to thrive in a world where their top talent can walk out the door without taking a single step. Helen Fanucci provides detailed instructions on how to shift focus from merely hitting sales goals to putting sellers first—as people and performers—making YOU the reason they join, stay, and win.

Do you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The 50 easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation.

The expectations placed upon you are more than mere bullet points in a job description. You know you should contribute during meetings, but obstacles arise. You lose focus, or get interrupted. You fly off course, and start rambling. Perhaps the intimidation factor is so strong, you simply feel you don’t have a voice. Speak Up, Dammit! provides inspirational stories, as well as critical tools, lessons, and exercises, that will help you, at any professional level, overcome obstacles and share your voice at work.

This audiobook covers a 10-step process to plan, practice, and rehearse a presentation on any business topic. You'll review techniques to identify your audience, purpose, and main message. You'll strategize about ways to include all necessary information and eliminate unnecessary details. You'll practice how you'll carry yourself as you speak and also practice asking and answering questions. All the book's techniques can help you build confidence and deliver an engaging, effective presentation.

Whether you speak online or in person, can you imagine yourself as a more confident public speaker? What difference could appearing more confident make to your career, to your business, or to your life? See it. Be it. Achieve it. If you can imagine how to appear confident when you speak (see it), then take on that appearance (be it), you can start to feel more confident (achieve it).

Meet Iris, a sales manager so overwhelmed by meetings she feels like a hamster on a wheel. Just in time, Iris finds a coach - a meeting efficiency and etiquette expert with a simple plan that helps her to meet less, make better use of meeting technology, and get more done.

Too much valuable time is wasted in meetings. Often little advance planning takes place, resulting in productivity drains rather than productivity gains. It’s time to think like a ninja. With realistic and practical advice, this book shows how to reduce the amount of time you spend in meetings and ensure that the ones that you do attend are genuine opportunities to collaborate and get things done.

Top speechwriter Simon Lancaster explains that the secret of brilliant communication is all about making connections. Whether in speech or in writing, at a networking event or in an email, at work or at home, the best communicators find ways of connecting with their audiences. More than that, they are able to connect the personal with the universal, the past with the present, the abstract with the everyday, the visual with the verbal, the moral with the mundane.

When you stand in front of an audience, the last things you want are bored listeners, tech issues, or ugly PowerPoint slides. Selling ideas is a critical skill, but presentations can be daunting. So how do you deliver an effective presentation that’s both informative and memorable (and funny!) that will influence and change people? Consultant and public speaker Dan Fraser answers your burning questions and shares a plan on how to go beyond the slides, images, and videos to create the very best presentations that influence people with your message.

Leadership literature is full of principles and ideas - but they rarely leave the page. Practice is what turns abstract concepts into useful skills. Leadership Step by Step walks listeners through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experience. The 22 exercises in this hands-on book help you accomplish the inner work and gain the social skills required for great leadership.

Discover the limitless potential of e-commerce with 'Casting Wealth,' a pioneering eBook that serves as a comprehensive guide to building a robust online empire. From raw beginners to seasoned entrepreneurs, this guide is designed to provide everyone with in-depth knowledge on the dynamics of e-commerce and passive income. The book begins by familiarizing you with the realm of e-commerce and the powerful concept of passive income, setting a solid foundation upon which you can build your business. It then dives into the significance of choosing the correct niche and equips you with ...

Scared of fluffing your lines? Worried about drying up? It's perfectly natural to be nervous before making a presentation. This helpful audiobook will reduce the anxiety and make any speech more effective. In just 30 minutes it will take you through every aspect of the all-important preparation of your presentation, so that you can be confident in front of any audience. Learn how to research your subject thoroughly and efficiently, speak eloquently and concisely on any subject, and more.

In today's connection economy, the most successful leaders inspire their people with purpose and meaning. Powerful corporate storytelling can mobilise people around an organisational objective in a way that a focus on market share never will. Be it a digital transformation or a diversity and inclusion initiative, corporate change needs the support of the people in that organisation in order to stick. Yet, while all stories can move people to take action, storytelling isn't a one size fits all.