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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.

I studied over 200 of the best TED talks. I broke each TED talk down in terms of structure, message, and delivery. Here's what I discovered: After studying over 200 TED talks, the one commonality among all the great TED talks is that they contain stories. Discover the 23 storytelling secrets of the best TED talks! In this short, but powerful, guide you're going to learn how to use stories to make your presentations engaging and entertaining.

This book is not just another public speaking and presenting skills book. It is not just a book of tips. This is the ultimate system for public speaking and presenting, whatever the situation.

The ability to listen and communicate effectively are vital skills, enabling us to motivate and influence people in our personal and professional lives. But all too often, we’re our own biggest roadblock. In The Art of Facilitation, Tina Frey Clements teaches you to master the art, (and even science) of facilitation and use it to your advantage. With more than 25 years of experience as a professional communicator, she shares tools and techniques to successfully deliver your message to any audience, from the board room to the classroom.

Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene 10 years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations and have dramatically improved their lives and careers thanks to the methods outlined in this book. Now, the authors have revised their best-selling classic to provide even more ways to help you take the lead in any tough conversation.

Have you ever walked out of a meeting feeling drained, frustrated, or wondering if anything truly productive was accomplished? You're not alone. In a world dominated by endless schedules and virtual connections, meetings have become an unavoidable part of professional life. But too often, they can devolve into unproductive time-wasters that leave participants feeling disengaged and uninspired. This book is a practical guide for transforming your meetings from mundane obligations into dynamic, engaging sessions that drive results.

You believe in a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it, hoping for enthusiastic support. Instead, you get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets. Before you know what’s hit you, your idea is dead, shot down. It doesn’t have to be this way, say John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to protect good ideas and win the support needed to deliver valuable results.

Milo Frank shows you how easy it is to get your point across in 30 seconds and get what you want. Whether you are writing a letter or memo, making a speech, asking for a raise or promotion, making a point, or closing a sale, How To Get Your Point Across In 30 Seconds Or Less is an invaluable training tool for both business people and professionals. You will be amazed at your enhanced effectiveness when you discover how to use the 30 second message to get exactly what you want.

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.

Finally, a comprehensive resource to help you master speaking techniques and more. Learn from the world’s legendary professional speakers as they teach you how to tell your story, deliver a public speech, combat stage fright, control non-verbals, and persuade an audience. Even with the most difficult speaking subjects, learn how to use humor, quotes, and statistics to highlight a point.

Originally published in 1896, General Henry M. Robert's classic guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings has sold millions of copies in numerous editions as the gold standard of meeting procedure for parliamentarians and novice club presidents and members alike. The best book from which to learn all about running and taking an effective part in meetings, General Robert's gift of order is as indispensable now as it was a century ago.

Everyone recognizes leaders with "presence." They stand out for their seemingly innate ability to command attention and inspire commitment. But what is this secret quality they exude, exactly? Executive and CEO coach Kristi Hedges demystifies this elusive trait, revealing that leadership presence is the intersection of outward influencing skills and internal mental conditioning. Using her I-Presence model, the author shows how anyone-regardless of position or personality-can strengthen their impact.

Merging research and real-world application, this insightful guide reveals what really drives decisions and introduces listeners to the persuasion equation - a powerful combination of factors proven to speed agreement.

Public speaking is one of the best ways to become known as an expert in your field, mobilize and inspire your team, create confidence and loyalty among your customers or followers, and grow your brand, business, or career.

You know those subtle tricks your coworkers are all guilty of? The constant nodding, pretend concentration, useless rhetorical questions? These tricks make them seem like they know what they're doing when in fact they have no clue. This behavior is so ingrained, so subtle, and so often mistaken for true intelligence that identifying it, calling it out, or compiling it into an exhaustive digest has never been attempted. Until now.

The most successful entrepreneurs are never satisfied with the status quo. They're always looking for opportunities to push beyond the boundaries of their industry and marketplace, into new territories where they can use their unique skills to create increasing value for their desired audience. Break free from competition, and, instead, collaborate with other 10x achievers to create totally "free zones" where no one else has yet ventured and growth is unlimited. This is the essence of entrepreneurism.

Many experts have offered techniques on how to improve your own memory, but not how to influence other people's memory. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Impossible to Ignore is a practical step-by-step guide that will show you how to control the 10 percent that your audiences do remember by creating content that attracts attention, sharpens recall, and guides behavior toward a desired action.

None of us can predict with 100 percent accuracy what will happen when we're in front of a group of people. We need to be prepared, but also prepared to adapt. Whether you are a presenter, facilitator, teacher, chairperson, or negotiator, Nimble will equip you to respond effectively when you're taken by surprise. Learn how to craft a careful script, then to hold that script loosely so that you can adjust in real time to whatever's happening in the room.

Toastmaster's Secret is a complete guide to get the maximum leverage out of the Competent Communicator program. Based on experience of a committed toastmaster who has taken effort to create speeches as suggested by the manual, this step-by-step guide shows you how to craft speeches. It has explanation on selection of topics, delivery preparation, and much more.

Everybody hates meetings. And why shouldn't they? Most meetings are poorly led, counterproductive, and time-wasting. Based on decades of practice and research, best-selling authors Weisbord and Janoff have come to the conclusion that most people lead meetings incorrectly. They, instead, propose 10 contrarian principles that actually get things done.