15 Minutes Including Q&A: A Plan to Save the World From Lousy Presentations

Every day, business people bore listeners with presentations that ramble on, make no clear points, and fail to address the audiences key concerns. This book lays out a plan for ridding the world of lousy presentations. Learn how to: Create rifle shot presentations that hit the mark and satisfy listeners. Answer questions in a way that inspires confidence. Deliver messages in a style that makes you look and sound like a leader. Overcome fear of public speaking.

Joey Asher is a professional communication and selling skills coach who has worked with executives, managers, and salespeople at dozens of firms including The Home Depot, Georgia Pacific, Global Payments, The Weather Channel, UPS, Kimberly-Clark, Alston & Bird, PricewaterhouseCoopers, AMVESCAP, Verizon, Scientific-Atlanta and Kurt Salmon Associates.

Joey Asher has written four books on presentation skills and selling: 15 Minutes Including Q & A: A Plan to Save the World from Lousy Presentations ; How To Win a Pitch: The Five Fundamentals That Will Distinguish You from the Competition ; Even a Geek Can Speak: Low-Tech Presentation Skills For High-Tech People , ; and Selling and Communication Skills for Lawyers.

Joey's background is both as an attorney and as a newspaper reporter. He worked as an adjunct professor of law at Emory University School of law and was an attorney at Troutman Sanders L.L.P in Atlanta. Prior to law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter for the Gannett newspaper chain in Georgia and New York. Joey graduated from Cornell University and Emory University Law School. Joey is currently the president of Speechworks, a public speaking skills training firm based in Atlanta. Speechworks has been training business professionals and sellers connect with listeners and sell ideas since 1986. The firm offers communication and public speaking skills training and coaching in the form of workshops, workshops, seminars, and private sessions.