The A to Z of Presentations

Whether you are giving a presentation to an important client, trying to win business from a valued customer, selling an idea to your board of senior executives, or making a farewell speech to a retiring colleague, this “A to Z…” will help you come across as someone who is knowledgeable, skilled, and enthusiastic. Take a look!

Preface

This book will give everything you need to become a professional presenter. Whether you are giving a presentation to an important client, trying to win business from a valued customer, selling an idea to your board of senior executives, or making a farewell speech to a retiring colleague, this “A to Z…” will help you come across as someone who is knowledgeable, skilled, and enthusiastic. Ex-President Ford of the United States of America once said that being able to talk in front of an audience was the most important skill he wished he’d learnt and would have gone back to college if he could have mastered it. You don’t have to. The answers are all in this book.

Content

1. Accents
2. Aikido, intellectual
3. Alert Stance, an
4. Analogy
5. Anaphora
6. Appearance in Presentation
7. Articulation
8. Attention Spans
9. Audience Types
10. Audience, winning an
11. Audiences, difficult
12. Breathing
13. Colours on a Chart
14. Commanding Walk, a
15. Commentating
16. Confidence
17. Controlled Hands
18. Conviction Graph, the
19. Core Statement, the
20. Creative Pause, the
21. Cue Cards
22. Difficult Audiences
23. Difficult Questions
24. Definitely Definitions I
25. Definitely Definitions II
26. Donkeys’ Tails Quiz I
27. Donkeys’ Tails Quiz II
28. Emphasis
29. Endings
30. Enthusiasm
31. Enunciation
32. Eye Warmth
33. Fears, the ten worst human
34. First Impressions Last
35. Flipcharts
36. Fill in the Blank Quiz I
37. Fill in the Blank Quiz II
38. Gestures, meaningful
39. Hand Positions
40. Inflection
41. Information, gathering
42. Jokes
43. Lead Them
44. Leading an Audience
45. Lists and Checklists
46. Mantras
47. Middles of Presentations
48. Mnemonics in Presentations
49. Multiple Choice Quiz
50. Narratives
51. Natural Smiles
52. Nerves
53. Numbers
54. The Numbers Game
55. Openers, formal presentation
56. Openers, impact
57. Opening Techniques
58. Overheads
59. Pace, speaking
60. Pauses
61. Persuasion, the P’s of
62. Persuasive Words, the most
63. Phrasing
64. Pitch
65. Planting
66. Presentation Style
67. Presentation Techniques
68. Presentation, a definition of
69. Presentation, preparing a
70. Presentations, business
71. Presentations, effective
72. Prior Knowledge
73. Questions, difficult
74. Rapport, losing
75. Resonance, voice
76. Seating Styles
77. Show Don’t Just Tell
78. Signposting
79. Tone
80. True or False? Quiz I
81. True or False? Quiz II
82. Under Starter’s Orders
83. Visuals
84. Voice, using the
85. Volume
86. Wall Push, the
87. Word Lists
88. Writing and Speaking
89. Presentation Skills: Answers To Quiz Questions 02