Presenting With Style: Advanced Strategies for Superior Presentations - Softcover

Dowling, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595094864 ISBN 13: 9780595094868

Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

Is your presentation style a little on the dull side? When you speak in public, do your audiences exhibit severe symptoms of MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over)? Do you believe that "Death by PowerPoint" presentations are your only choice? If so, then this book is for you. First, well ask you to assess your own personal presentation style. Are you an Entertainer? (Do you like to get laughs and applause?) Are you a Professor? (Are you happiest when theyre taking notes and looking enthralled?) Are you a Preacher? (Do you want your audience to be converted?) Or are you an Orator? (Do you yearn for a standing ovation?) In this book youll learn how to build your own preferred style, add some elements from the other styles, and then put together a presentation that will knock the socks off any audience. This book also includes specific techniques for specific kinds of presentations: Sales Presentations, Briefings, Conference Presentations, Keynote Speeches, After-Dinner Talks, Public Hearings, and Instructional Sessions. This books premise: You dont HAVE to be boring!

About this title

About the Author

Ellen C. Dowling, Ph.D., President of Dowling & Associates, Inc. and author of The Standup Trainer, is an expert in helping professionals develop presentation skills to enlighten and entertain their audiences. Michael J. Dowling, Ph.D., Professor of Innovation and Technology Management, University of Regensburg, is an internationally recognized executive education consultant.

From the Inside Flap

Reading Ellen Dowling and Michael Dowling's new book, "Presenting With Style," is a rare pleasure for a college professor. Here is a text that is short, inexpensive, and, best of all, interesting. Actually, it is more than interesting; it is downright entertaining. It has been a long time since I've read a textbook that holds within its pages the joy of learning as much as "Presenting With Style." I intend to use "Presenting With Style" in my classes and I will recommend it to other professors who are long weary of the didactic and the tedious. To quote the authors on the premise of this book: "You don't HAVE to be boring." Amen.

Dr. Barthy Byrd, Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication, University of Texas at El Paso.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595094864
• ISBN 13: 9780595094868
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188