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Comprehensive practical advice and step by step instructions on how to become an effective communicator and gain valuable editorial media coverage written and narrated by award winning media trainer and broadcaster, Paul Pennington.

Meetings have become a pain point for millions, wasting time, money, and energy. But in reality, meetings are at the heart of effective organizations. In Make Meetings Matter, business consultant Paul Axtell reaffirms the importance of meetings and reimagines them using the vital foundation of conversation. With real-life examples and actionable advice, this revolutionary book will teach you to redesign meetings to achieve results, move projects forward, and build relationships that make remarkable work possible.

Unmute Yourself: Speak Up to Stand Out is a game changer. A call to action for professional women who are ready to get their seat at the table—then build a bigger table. We start with the million-dollar problem—have you ever tried applying the gender wage gap to a career's lifetime? The numbers are staggering. Even more eye-opening is how women are holding themselves back and creating their own glass ceiling. Confidence impacts outcomes, and if you're ready to speak up to stand out, this book is for you.

If talking in front of people makes you cringe, Lilyan Wilder's 7 Steps to Fearless Speaking will teach you how to cope with panic, avoidance, and the trauma of public speaking.

How to Design (and Deliver) TED-Worthy Presentation Slides is a short, practical and step-by-step guide to creating sexy slides. It is based on an extensive analysis of some of the best TED speakers, such as Brene Brown, Daniel Pink, Amy Cuddy, Larry Lessig, Seth Godin, Bill Gates and many, many more.

Understand common forms of communication and improve confidence when speaking in front of others. You can be a great communicator in any situation. This audiobook delves into the common forms of communication and explains what skills make a good communicator and have confidence when speaking in front of others.

What makes someone a great speaker? Why do some people communicate effectively and others don’t? Can you actually develop this attribute as you would a skill? If you’re trying to wrap your head around this subject, Communication Skills Training: Learn to Powerfully Attract, Influence & Connect by Improving Your Communication Skills can help you make sense of it all. You’ll learn how to separate communication skills myth from fact. This book helps you develop both verbal and nonverbal skills, so that you'll never fear social interactions and conversations again!

Every business situation is both a presentation and a chance to leave a positive impression. In Talk Your Way to the Top, corporate communications gurus Kevin Daley and Laura Daley-Caravella give listeners the know-how to recognize and maximize the opportunities they face throughout the day.

In this age, turning hard data into a compelling narrative is no longer a luxury. It has become a necessity. Visual communication is no longer enough. Presenters need to kick things up a notch and find effective ways to turn hard-to-chew insights into compelling and persuasive stories that influence your audiences’ decisions and push them to want change to happen.

How to Lead an Effective Meeting (And Get the Results You Want) is for people who want to lead effective meetings, in any context. It is a blueprint for how to make your meetings work, defined as meetings that achieve the results you want to achieve - in the meeting and afterward. It's a how-to guide for making better use of the time you spend planning, organizing, and conducting meetings. It's about getting results through meetings.

Rule of 24 was already taking place when the 2020 COVID pandemic impacted the business world. The old prospect strategies weren’t working like they used to; your sales process was harder and harder to follow, and you simply weren’t getting as much face-to-face time as you once did. We wrote this book two years before the pandemic and the client engagement challenges and solutions that have presented itself during COVID-19 were an acceleration of what we predicted in 2018.

People don't always communicate well. It's a fact of life. But you don't have to be a helpless witness or participant in a conversation that steadily unravels into misunderstandings, confusion, and even hostility. You can take charge - and you can make a difference! Breakthrough Communication provides easy-to-implement strategies for virtually any business situation, whether it's one-on-one or within a group.

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.

A team of accomplished sales and coaching leaders delivers an insightful and engaging take on how to go from just holding your webinar audiences captive to truly captivating them.

A practical guide based on a proprietary skill assessment tool - a Myers-Briggs for presenters - that provides tips and strategies that address the core element for becoming a successful presenter: you.

In March of 2020, the world was changed forever. We were forced to isolate due to COVID-19 and were thrust into the world of remote work and virtual communication with no preparation. The learning curve was steep, and many people are still struggling to communicate effectively on this new medium. What has become clear over the course of the pandemic is that the future is hybrid, blending the physical setting of pre-COVID-19 with the virtual adaptations we learned during the pandemic.

In her previous books, executive coach and professional development expert Shawn Kent Hayashi identified the various types of conversations that are vital for growth and success. Now, in Conversations That Get Results and Inspire Collaboration, she answers many of the questions she is most frequently asked during coaching and training sessions.

We've interviewed industry experts, studied the research, and written one of the first comprehensive guides to crafting, revising, and delivering online presentations that are engaging and effective. Our book examines all aspects of presenting online, from the planning process, to designing your environment, to selecting images and text on your slides, to the principles of delivery - all adapted to the nuances and new norms of presenting in an online setting.

Winning Conditions is a joyful, insightful, and empowering book about delivering your work and ideas so that they (and you!) are more likely to be recognized, accepted, and celebrated. By consciously implementing these ideas, you'll see your colleagues and customers respond more positively to you and your great work. Your strong reputation and overall success will grow. You will begin to win.

Unlike most presentation books that say the same things regarding presentation design and delivery (less is more, get rid of bullets and use images, emulate Steve Jobs, and so on), How to Be a Presentation God actually divulges step-by-step secrets for how to build, design, and deliver blockbuster presentations. By providing entertaining and clever presentation insights, veteran presenter Scott Schwertly gives you the ins and outs for presenting yourself, your business, and your cause with an easy-to-implement approach.