Three breakthrough books help you deliver outstanding, winning presentations — whatever your goals, whatever your audience! Jerry Weissman has helped the world’s top executives create the most important presentations of their lives: make-or-break investor presentations that have raised hundreds of billions of dollars from demanding, expert investors. Now, in this amazing collection, Weissman teaches everything you need to create and deliver the most compelling, successful presentations of your life! First up: Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition, Weissman’s start-to-finish guide to connecting with even the toughest audiences...telling them compelling stories that focus on what’s in it for them… and moving people to action! Next: In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts, Weissman shows how to answer even the toughest questions with perfect assurance… avoid the defensiveness, evasiveness, or anger that destroy careers… brilliantly control the entire exchange with hostile questioners! Finally: Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters revealshow the world’s best presenters have actually applied the principles of outstanding communication. Packed with unforgettable examples from the media, sports, politics, science, art, music, literature, the military, and history, this book teaches 100% actionable lessons for supercharging everything from content and graphics to delivery! From world-renowned presentation consultant Jerry Weissman.
Craft and deliver outstanding presentations, speeches, demos, and more! Learn how, from the world's #1 presentation coach, Jerry Weissman -- and the experiences of dozens of the world's legendary persuaders! This book distills 75 best practices and techniques Weissman has developed through more than 20 years coaching executives on their highest-stakes presentations. In Winning Strategies for Power Presentations, Weissman identifies the elements of a great presentation, offering powerful new insights into contents, graphics, delivery, Q-and-A sessions, and much more. Weissman illuminates every technique with a compelling case study, drawing on the positive and negative experiences of communicators ranging from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama, Jon Stewart to venture capitalist John Doerr, Stephen King to Mark Twain, Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. For the first time, he specifically and thoroughly addresses the unique challenges of making persuasive political presentations and speeches. This book also includes brand-new advice on a wide spectrum of "special presentation" issues, ranging from developing a richer public speaking voice to delivering scripted speeches, interviewing like a TV anchorperson to demonstrating products more successfully. For everyone who must speak and present more effectively in public: executives, managers, professional speakers, business leaders, project leaders, sales personnel, instructors, students, and many others.
Thirty million presentations will be given today. Millions will fail. Millions more will be received with yawns. A rare few will establish the most profound connection, in which presenter and audience understand each other perfectly...discover common ground... and, together, decide to act. In this fully updated edition, Jerry Weissman, the world’s #1 presentation consultant, shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences...and move them to action! He teaches presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all and tell compelling stories that focus on what’s in it for the audience. Weissman’s techniques have proven themselves with billions of dollars on the line. Thousands of his elite clients have already mastered them. Now it’s your turn! • What you must do to tell your story Focus before Flow: identifying your real goals and message • The power of the WIIFY: What’s In It For You Staying focused on what your audience really wants • Capture your audience in 90 seconds... and never let go! Opening Gambits and compelling linkages • Master the art of online Web conferencing Connecting with your invisible audience • From brainstorming through delivery Crafting the Power Presentation, one step at a time Named by FORTUNE Magazine as a "Must-Read" "Jerry Weissman makes the challenge of producing and delivering effective presentations delightfully simple. Read it and benefit!" Tim Koogle,Founding CEO, Yahoo! “A great read for all of us who have ever struggled with any aspect of our public speaking skills. Presenting to Win contains the same timeless techniques that helped me [18] years ago.” Jeff Raikes, former President, Microsoft Business Division, Microsoft Corporation, and CEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation “Jerry is The Man when it comes to making great pitches. If your pitch doesn’t get a whole lot better after reading this book, something is wrong with you.” Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director and Chairman, Garage Technology Ventures, and bestselling author of The Art of the Start “Presenting to Win is the shortest path to applause for any presenter. It will be your bible for the PowerPoint Age. It’s loaded with easy actions and real examples that really work. I’ve used them. I know.” Scott Cook, Founder, Intuit
In Presentation in Action , Weissman does just that: he teaches how to make spectacularly successful presentations by showing exactly how great presenters have done it. Weissman dives into his library of outstanding presentations, sharing examples from current events, politics, science, art, music, literature, cinema, media, sports, and even the military. His compelling examples don’t just demonstrate what’s universal about effective human communication: they also reveal powerful ways to solve the specific challenges presenters encounter most often. This book’s five sections focus on each element of the outstanding contemporary presentation: Content: Mastering the art of telling your story; Graphics: Designing PowerPoint slides that work brilliantly; Delivery skills: How to make actions speak louder than words; Q+A: How to handle tough questions; Integration: How to put it all together. In this fully updated Second Edition of Presenting to Win , the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences...and move them to action! Jerry Weissman shows presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all -- and tell compelling stories that focus on what's in it for the audience. Drawing on dozens of real case studies, Weissman shows how to identify your primary goals and messages before you even open PowerPoint; stay focused on what your listeners really care about; and capture your audience in the first crucial 90 seconds. Weissman covers all the practical mechanics of effective presentation: finding your flow...communicating visually...writing better slide text...making your numbers... using graphics...practicing aloud...customizing for different audiences...presenting online...and much more.
Learn the successful presentation techniques used in over 500 IPO road shows and featured in The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company. Jerry Weissman is the presentations coach to Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and many of America's top executives, including founding Yahoo CEO Tim Koogle, Intuit founder Scott Cook, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings, and many others. The San Jose Mercury News says that Weissman's IPO presentation coaching "is worth 10% on a company stock." Learn why your body language and voice are more important than your words, how to present with poise and confidence naturally, and how to connect with any audience emotionally. Filled with illustrative case studies of Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, John F. Kennedy, and many others, The Power Presenter will bring out the best in anyone who has to stand and deliver. Readers of The Power Presenter will have access to video clips referenced in the book.
This Element is an excerpt from Presentations in Action (9780132489621) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Seven powerful ways to customize your presentation to your unique audience–and make them care! Presenters can connect with their audiences by referencing relevant facts about the audience, as individuals or as a group. Such connections are far too rare in today’s presentations. But finding relevant facts to customize your presentation doesn’t require manipulative glances, a private investigator, or an army of researchers. There are seven simple techniques anyone can use...
World-renowned presentation coach Jerry Weissman has spent 20 years helping top executives succeed in the most important business presentations of their lives. Here’s what he’s learned: the best way to get his message across is to show his techniques in action. In Presentation in Action , Weissman does just that: he teaches how to make spectacularly successful presentations by showing exactly how great presenters have done it. Weissman dives into his library of outstanding presentations, sharing examples from current events, politics, science, art, music, literature, cinema, media, sports, and even the military. His compelling examples don’t just demonstrate what’s universal about effective human communication: they also reveal powerful ways to solve the specific challenges presenters encounter most often. This book’s five sections focus on each element of the outstanding contemporary presentation: Content: Mastering the art of telling your story; Graphics: Designing PowerPoint slides that work brilliantly; Delivery skills: How to make actions speak louder than words; Q+A: How to handle tough questions; Integration: How to put it all together. Now, in Winning Strategies for Power Presentations, Weissman identifies the elements of a great presentation, distilling 75 best practices from the world's best persuaders into bite-sized chapters designed to be easy-to-read -- and equally easy to apply. Following on the heels of Weissman's best-selling Presentations in Action, this book presents powerful new insights into the four key areas of delivering winning presentations: contents, graphics, delivery, and Q-and-A sessions. Throughout, Weissman's compelling case studies range from Jon Stewart to venture capitalist John Doerr, Stephen King to Mark Twain, Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Weissman also includes brand-new advice on a wide spectrum of "special presentation" issues, ranging from developing a richer public speaking voice to delivering scripted speeches, interviewing like a TV anchorperson to demonstrating products more successfully.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presentations in Action (9780132489621) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. 7 easy ways to find the facts that will help you powerfully connect with your audience. Presenters can connect with their audiences by referring to relevant facts about audience members, or about the audience as a group. Such connections are rare nowadays: Many presenters do minimal preparation and dump generic data on audiences. But finding relevant facts doesn’t require a private investigator or an army of researchers. Use these seven simple techniques….
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Bring coherence, flow, and crystal-clear purpose to every presentation you deliver! Few human activities are done as often as presentations, and as poorly. One recent estimate states that 30 million presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint slides are made every day. How many of them were truly memorable, effective, and persuasive? Probably only a handful. The vast majority fall prey to these Five Cardinal Sins...
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. The secret of presentation success: “WIIFY”--a relentless focus on what’s in it for your audience! Constantly ask the key question: “What’s in it for you?” I’ve shifted the ultimate word to “you” deliberately, to shift the focus to your audience. This shift emphasizes that all communicators should be focused outward. By constantly seeking “WIIFY,” you can stay focused on what matters most: giving your audience a very good reason to move from Point A to Point B...
In Winning Strategies for Power Presentations , Weissman identifies the elements of a great presentation, distilling 75 best practices from the world's best persuaders into bite-sized chapters designed to be easy-to-read -- and equally easy to apply. Following on the heels of Weissman's best-selling Presentations in Action, this book presents powerful new insights into the four key areas of delivering winning presentations: contents, graphics, delivery, and Q-and-A sessions. In this fully updated Second Edition of Presenting to Win, the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences...and move them to action! Jerry Weissman shows presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all -- and tell compelling stories that focus on what's in it for the audience. Drawing on dozens of real case studies, Weissman shows how to identify your primary goals and messages before you even open PowerPoint; stay focused on what your listeners really care about; and capture your audience in the first crucial 90 seconds. Weissman covers all the practical mechanics of effective presentation: finding your flow...communicating visually...writing better slide text...making your numbers... using graphics...practicing aloud...customizing for different audiences...presenting online...and much more.
Jerry Weissman’s brand new collection of 4 authoritative books on making outstanding presentations Four breakthrough books help you deliver outstanding, winning presentations of all kinds — whatever your goals, whatever your audience! Jerry Weissman has helped the world’s top executives create the most important presentations of their lives: make-or-break investor presentations that have raised hundreds of billions of dollars from demanding, expert investors. Now, in this remarkable 4 book collection, Weissman teaches everything you need to deliver the most compelling, successful presentations of your life! In Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters, Weissman reveals how the world’s best presenters have applied timeless principles of outstanding communication – and shows how you can, too. Packed with unforgettable examples from the media, sports, politics, science, art, music, literature, the military, and history, it teaches 100% actionable lessons for supercharging everything from content and graphics to delivery! Next, In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts, Second Edition, Weissman shows how to answer even the toughest questions with perfect assurance… avoid the defensiveness, evasiveness, or anger that destroy careers… brilliantly control the entire exchange with hostile questioners! Weissman’s Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition is the industry’s best start-to-finish guide to connecting with even the toughest audiences...telling them compelling stories that focus on what’s in it for them… and moving people to action. Finally, in his brand-new Winning Strategies for Power Presentations, Weissman distills 75 best practices he’s developed through 20+ years coaching executives on high-stakes presentations. He shares powerful new insights into contents, graphics, delivery, Q&A sessions, and more. He also offers new advice on making persuasive political and scripted speeches, developing a richer public speaking voice, interviewing others, demonstrating products, and much more. Every technique is illuminated with a compelling case study, reflecting experiences of communicators ranging from Ronald Reagan to Jon Stewart, Stephen King to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. From world-renowned presentation consultant Jerry Weissman
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Create “Opening Gambits” that grab your presentation audience from the very first instant! Picture your audience at the start of your presentation. Where are their minds? Chances are, not on you. Maybe they’re thinking about an urgent message, the NASDAQ, their next appointment or overdue report, or the fight they just had with their significant other. If you launch at full speed, you’ll vault ahead of them. Instead, use an Opening Gambit to capture them immediately…
World-renowned presentation coach Jerry Weissman has spent 20 years helping top executives succeed in the most important business presentations of their lives, and he’s learned the best way to get his message across is to show his techniques in action. Weissman does just that in Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters. He teaches how to make spectacularly successful presentations by showing exactly how great presenters have done it. Weissman dives into his library of outstanding presentations, sharing examples from current events, politics, science, art, music, literature, cinema, media, sports, and even the military. His compelling examples don’t just demonstrate what’s universal about effective human communication: they also reveal powerful ways to solve the specific challenges presenters encounter most often. This book’s five sections focus on each element of the outstanding contemporary presentation: Content: Mastering the art of telling your story; Graphics: Designing PowerPoint slides that work brilliantly; Delivery skills: How to make actions speak louder than words; Q&A: How to handle tough questions; Integration: How to put it all together. From clarifying “What’s in it for you?” to crafting better elevator pitches, improving flow to using anecdotes, Presentation in Action is packed with solutions–and packed with inspiration, too!
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts (9780131855175), by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Two Line Description Powerful lessons in answering tough questions from the legendary “Stormin’ Norman,” Desert Storm commander Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. Text Excerpt During the 43 days of the 1991 Gulf War, General Norman Schwarzkopf held only about half a dozen press conferences, and each was very, very brief. Despite such minimal exposure, “Stormin’ Norman” became an instant global celebrity. Why? In each session, he exhibited complete command and control in answering the journalists’ questions. He served as a role model for every proper Q&A technique....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presentations in Action (9780132489621) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Face to face, person to person: Why your body language is even more important than you realize. In human communication, early visual and vocal interactions create dynamics that carry forward into the adult life of every man and woman. By tapping into these universal dynamics, any presenter can more readily connect with any audience. To do so, start by treating every presentation as a series of person-to-person conversations....
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Master the right ways to use animations in business presentations--and avoid animation techniques that can kill your presentation! We’ve all been in the audiences of far too many presentations that unleash all the bells and whistles of the animation in PowerPoint with a frenetic, pyrotechnic display that challenges a Fourth of July celebration. This phenomenon is like putting a 14-year-old boy behind the wheel of a Ferrari Testarossa....
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presentations in Action (9780132489621) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Words, images, design, and beyond: integrating all parts of your presentation to deliver powerhouse results. One person involved in a presentation may view it as the story, another as slides, another as delivery, and another as the handling of tough questions. However, a well-told story can be ruined by slides that resemble a doctoral dissertation, or by a terrified presenter, or by a zinger question. Presenters must carefully manage and integrate every element….
This Element is an excerpt from Presentations in Action (9780132489621) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. More succinct = more successful! Cut the fat from your presentation, and quickly get to the “Aha” moment! Your audience doesn’t need every encyclopedic detail. They have neither the time nor the patience--especially in this Twitter-driven world--to listen to long presentations. Keep brevity in mind while you’re developing your presentation. When you’re done, take one more look, and find more to omit. When in doubt, leave it out. Here’s how....
Jerry Weissman has made a career of coaching nearly 500 execs on their IPO roadshows, the most critical presentations of their lives. Now, he's written an indispensable guide to answering the toughest questions you'll ever face. Using compelling examples from Presidential debates to stock analyst meetings, Weissman teaches how to respond with perfect assurance. Discover how to avoid the defensive, evasive, or contentious answers that have destroyed political careers and ruin credibility. Learn to control your entire exchange with a hostile questioner: the question, answer, interactions with questioner and audience, timing, and above all, yourself. Whether an executive, politician, fundraiser, interviewee, teacher, student -- or even a family member at Thanksgiving dinner -- you're judged on how you handle these moments. Get this book: handle them brilliantly.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Why fewer words are better — and practical ways to slash the unnecessary text in your next presentation! Legibility and speed are equally important. When you create a text slide containing bullets, you are, in effect, presenting headlines only. Where does the body text appear? Not on any slide. As the presenter, it is your job to put flesh on the bones of the headline bullets. The presenter provides the body text; the presenter is the focus of the presentation.
This Element is an ecerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. The world’s #1 corporate presentation consultant teaches 7 proven techniques for grabbing your audience from the get-go--and never letting go! Picture your audience at the start of your presentation. Where are their minds? Chances are, not on you. If you were to launch into your presentation at full speed, describing your product, service, or technology, you’d vault ahead of them. Instead, capture them immediately, with an Opening Gambit....
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. How to make presentation graphics work for you, not against you or your audience--so you can drive your message home, achieve buy in, and get action! Think about a time when you attended a presentation and the graphics didn’t work. What was the problem? These are the most common answers my clients give: “The graphics were cluttered.” “Too much on the slide.” “The slide looked like an eye chart.” “The slide was a Data Dump...”
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. The #1 killer mistake presenters make with graphics–and what you need to do instead! The true problem with presentation graphics is that, all too often, presenters take a flood of data, those dense text and highly detailed tables, charts, and graphs, and simply reproduce them, with little or no modification, as presentation graphics. It’s the Presentation-as-Document Syndrome. But a presentation is a presentation and only a presentation–never a document.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Before you deliver your call to action, make sure your audience will be ready to act on it! For your presentations to succeed in achieving the clarion call to action, the audience must be brought into equal focus with your objectives. To establish that balance, let me introduce the term "Audience Advocacy." Mastering Audience Advocacy means learning to view yourself, your company, your story, and your presentation through the eyes of your audience...
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Presentations in Action (9780132489621) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. YOU are the focus of your presentation--not your graphics, and not PowerPoint! Far be it from me to advise you to reject PowerPoint. But use it properly. Relegate graphics to a supporting role. Make the presenter--you--the primary focus of your presentation. Your correct role model exists 24/7 on TV news. CNN’s Anderson Cooper provides the details for his stories; the accompanying graphics are simply illustrative headlines....
Present with Power, Poise, and Confidence---In Any Environment, Live or Virtual To succeed, leaders must deliver powerful presentations at every opportunity: speeches, fireside chats, briefings, pitches, virtual meetings, videoconferences, podcasts, and beyond. Whether you are in front of a live audience or a webcam, the way you present yourself verbally and non-verbally is crucial to your success. Top presentation coach Jerry Weissman gives you the same battle-tested techniques, styles, and strategies he has provided to senior executives at thousands of companies. His proven methodology has enabled presenters to attract investors, sell products, propose partnerships, and get high-stakes projects approved. You will follow a step-by-step plan to shape your content, control your nerves, master your body language, integrate your graphics with your delivery, and much more. The Power Presenter is packed with proven techniques, practical tools, and case studies of famous power presenters -- including many business leaders new to this edition. It will help you engage any audience from start to finish and deliver persuasive presentations when it counts most. Part of the Jerry Weissman Presentation Trilogy! Also look for updated Third Editions of: Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story and Designing Your Slides In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When it Counts
Answer the Toughest Questions Brilliantly...And Win Over Your Audience Every Time! In this fully updated edition, the world's #1 presentation coach enables you to field any question from any audience and to respond with complete assurance. Drawing on brand-new business case studies, Jerry Weissman shows you how to control the entire Q&A session and to avoid the defensive, evasive, or contentious answers that can ruin careers. Whether you're a senior executive, job candidate, or anyone else in business, you're judged on how you handle high-pressure exchanges. Get this book and learn how to handle them successfully. Part of the Jerry Weissman Presentation Trilogy! Also look for updated Editions of: Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story and Designing Your Slides The Power Presenter: Techniques, Style, and Strategy to Be Suasive “I've been asking tough questions for half a century and listening to variously brilliant, boring, evasive or illuminating answers. Jerry Weissman's book will help anyone--anyone--answer even the toughest questions.” --Mike Wallace, Sixty Minutes, CBS News
Weissman, the world's #1 presentation consultant, shows readers how to connect with even the most high-level audiences and transform presentations from dry recitals of facts into compelling stories with a laser-sharp focus on what matters most: what's in it for the audience.
This Element is an excerpt from Presentations in Action (9780132489621) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. What you can learn from Apple's iPhone and iPad? How to build narratives that are simpler, more intuitive, and more respectful of your audience. The colossal success of the iPhone and iPad offers a powerful lesson for crafting your story. Bill Portelli, President/CEO of CollabNet, says the iPhone has three basic qualities: it's simple, intuitive, and assumes its user's intelligence. Anyone who owns one will agree. A well-told story should have the same qualities....
This Element is an excerpt from Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9780137144174) by Jerry Weissman. Available in print and digital formats. Guide your audiences inexorably towards action, by organizing your presentations so audiences can follow them smoothly, and understand how every part fits together! Your job as a presenter is to navigate for your audience: to clarify the relationships among all parts of your story, and make it easy for them to follow. There are proven techniques for sequencing ideas logically to create a lucid and persuasive presentation. These techniques are called Flow Structures....
Jerry Weissman, corporate presentation coach and best-selling author, teaches public speakers to give irresistible presentations. • •Jerry Weissman teaches beginners to capture an audience using techniques he shows powerful Fortune 500 CEOs. •70% of people have strong anxiety about public speaking, but 83% of executives believe public speaking skills are key to career growth. (Indiana Univ.,2003;Business Communication Quarterly,58(4),51-56.) •More than 30 million presentations are given a day.(Business World 3/03).
3 expert guides to creating and delivering the best presentations of your life! Learn how to make winning presentations fearlessly and painlessly… prepare quickly, efficiently, and well… manage anxiety and handle hostile audiences… answer the crucial “So What?” question brilliantly, every time… capture even the toughest, most high-level audience in 90 seconds... tell compelling stories that move your listeners to action! From world-renowned leaders and experts, including James O'Rourke, Mark Magnacca, and Jerry Weissman
A brand new collection of 4 authoritative guides to improving your business productivity! 4 authoritative books help you supercharge your business productivity and effectiveness – today, every day, for years to come! This extraordinary collection of books will help you get better – way better! – at the tasks that can make or break your career! Start with time management: Attack Your Day presents crucial “activity management” skills and 101 productivity strategies for achieving unprecedented effectiveness, and moving relentlessly towards your greatest life goals. Learn to dramatically improve the way you prioritize activities… organize inherently more productive days… make sure the most important tasks get done… overcome procrastination forever… know how to “turn on a dime” without sacrificing focus … learn how and when to say NO to interruptions! Next, Taking Flight! reveals profound hidden patterns of human behavioral style, helping you gain deeper self-awareness, maximize your personal strengths, and influence others. Learn how to use the proven DISC model of human behavior to become a more effective leader, salesperson, or teacher; revitalize your career; and build deeper relationships. Discover why you “click” with some people and “clank” with others, and what really drives you! Then, create your own personal action plan for making the most of your strengths, working around weaknesses, and supercharging your personal performance. In Winning Strategies for Power Presentations, legendary presentations coach Jerry Weissman distills 75 best practices he’s developed through 20+ years coaching executives on high-stakes presentations. Weissman shares powerful new insights into contents, graphics, delivery, Q&A sessions, and more. He offers new advice on making persuasive political and scripted speeches, developing a richer public speaking voice, interviewing others, demonstrating products, and much more. Every technique is illuminated with a compelling case study, reflecting experiences of communicators ranging from Ronald Reagan to Jon Stewart, Stephen King to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. Finally, The Truth About Getting the Best From People, Second Edition brings together 60+ proven principles for achieving employee engagement one-hundred percent of the time. This new edition features more than 15 new truths including: managing virtual teams, building persuasive skills, tuning into your own unconscious biases, managing multiple generations, and identifying and cultivating individual high performers. Whatever your leadership role, this collection will supercharge your effectiveness – and your career! From world-renowned business productivity experts Mark Woods, Trapper Woods, Merrick Rosenberg, Daniel Silvert, Jerry Weissman, and Martha I. Finney
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