Business Presentation

Business consultant and former MGM director of creative affairs Stephanie Palmer reveals the techniques used by Hollywood's top writers, producers, and directors to get financing for their projects and explains how you can apply these techniques to be more successful in your own high-stakes meetings.

As Palmer has found, the strategies used to sell yourself and your ideas in Hollywood not only work in other businesses, they often work better.

Every day at work, people do three things: talk, listen, and pretend to listen. That's not surprising when you consider that the average attention span has dropped to 8 seconds. To break through, says high-stakes communications expert Paul Hellman, you need to focus on your audience, be slightly different, and deliver with finesse.

When you ask leaders in a high performing organization about the key to their success, the answers are all over the place: failing fast, radical transparency, operational excellence, strong core values...so many different North Stars to follow. Then, if you ask them for an example - to tell you what that looks like in practice - they will all describe a meeting. Leaders at these organizations have learned to design a sequence of tailored meetings that create a healthy organizational culture and drive forward momentum. They know that meetings are where the action is.

There's a big dull elephant in the boardroom: this meeting! Most of the millions of meetings held in the world today are a monumental waste of time and talent. Worse still, most of the so-called solutions and books for boring meetings are twice as boring. Boring Meetings Suck provides tips and tactics to deliver "Get-In, Get-It-Done, or Get-Out" style meetings, while also tackling what most prefer to avoid; that you don't have to be in charge of a meeting to take charge of a meeting.

Your team will change whether you like it or not. People will come and go. Your company might double in size or even be acquired. In this practical book, author Heidi Helfand shares techniques for reteaming effectively. Engineering leaders will learn how to catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation, and the development of knowledge silos.

You know this. You spend days preparing your presentation because your career might depend on it. You even practice in front of a mirror. You might even learn the entire text by heart so that nothing could ever go wrong. And yet the presentation turns out to be a nightmare. Your heart is racing, your entire body shakes, and your brain goes into full fight-or-flight mode so you can barely remember what you were going to talk about. Needless to say, your boss and your co-workers are not impressed.

Here Roger Dawson explains the ins and outs of power negotiation—a process with its own secret rules and procedures. Knowing these rules will enable you to negotiate intelligently and honestly—in sales and in any other area of life. Power negotiating is not what you think. It’s an art and a science for reaching an outcome where both parties feel that they’ve won. This densely packed and easy to understand book will give you a wealth of information

"On naît poète, on devient orateur", disait Cicéron. Thierry Watelet livre ici les clés de la prise de parole qui, comme les apôtres, sont au nombre de douze. Pour devenir un orateur brillant, ou efficace. Ou même les deux si on a le choix, comme Cicéron dans ses catilinaires. "Jusquà quand, Catilina, abuseras-tu, enfin, de notre patience ?". Mais attention, avoir les clés ne donne pas encore la parfaite maîtrise.

Learn how to tell a good story with Your Story, Well Told! Jam-packed with some of the best storytelling strategies, this manual gives creatives the confidence bump they need to make the sale, land the client, propose a toast, or impress their date. The following is (not) a work of fiction. We've all got stories to tell - but how do you make your story the best story? In Your Story, Well Told!, The Moth veteran Corey Rosen inspires you to get on stage and tell your story.

There's no question that executive-level conversations are difficult ones. When we surveyed managers about executive conversations, 90 percent said these conversations are harder, and an overlap of 20 percent said that they are significantly harder. Executives are a tough audience. Luckily they are also a predictable one.

Overcoming Fake Talk explains why we often fail at our most important communications and offers proven advice for turning challenging confrontations into rewarding exchanges that foster collaboration, improve performance, and achieve results. You'll develop an understanding of the skills for holding a REAL conversation, including both the "said" and the "unsaid" elements present in any conversation; discover the framework for preparing and holding difficult yet meaningful conversations; and learn to no longer avoid the tough conversations they need to have.

Based on author Carmine Gallo's career as a Fortune 500 communications coach and Emmy Award-winning television journalist, 10 Simple Secrets of the World's Greatest Communicators has been updated and revised to show business people how to achieve their personal and professional goals by mastering the 10 simple secrets used by the world's greatest business communicators.

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.

The remote work revolution has been rapidly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace shares insights from the remote employee, manager, and leader perspectives, offering a blueprint any person can use to make remote work successful, productive and fulfilling. Learn how to leverage the flexibility of remote work, be more productive while working at home, avoid burnout, lead a team of virtual employees, and build an organization that sets the gold standard for virtual work.

Public speaking causes anxiety in 75 percent of the population. Does your career depend upon mastery of this fear? Whether it’s giving a report to a handful of coworkers in a conference room or an auditorium full of your peers, this book can help you get over the nerves. Conquering that internal struggle is the focus of this book.

Stop wasting your precious time. Business executives nationwide agree that meetings are the most unproductive activity in business today. Now, whether you're a leader or a participant, one of America's master communication specialists shows how you can get the most out of any meeting in half the time.

Do you know how things really work in Japan?

Gaining the competitive edge in today's business world requires every advantage. How you speak and sound is as important to your success as the clothes you wear and the way you look. The Executive Voice Trainer shows you how to speak and sound to become a dynamic, confident speaker and advance your career.

That’s what your colleagues or clients will say once you have facilitated a workshop using what you will learn in this book by nationally recognized facilitator and award-winning author Eric Meade.

The process of wealth creation is 90 percent psychology and only 10 percent strategy. In this audiobook, you will learn the secrets of a powerful mindset that attracts success. Most people fail to become rich because they want to learn the strategy and not change their psychology.