Speaking Up:Surviving Executive Presentations

Frederick Gilbert; Frederick Gilbert

ISBN 10: 0615583385 / ISBN 13: 9780615583389

Published by PSI Publications (edition First Edition), 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Speaking Up:Surviving Executive Presentations
• Publisher: PSI Publications (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615583385
• ISBN 13: 9780615583389
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Frederick Gilbert
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Speaking Up: Surviving Executive Presentations If you are in middle management, you live with daily ambiguity, lack of control, and even chaos. To get anything done, you must present your ideas to people up the chain, and those presentations can be brutal. Careers and projects can come unwound in a matter of minutes if a presenter at the top level doesn t know the rules. So, what are the rules? That is what this book is all about. The good news is, the rules are simple and easy to learn: 1) know the people; 2) get to the point; and 3) improvise. Unfortunately a staggeringly high number of mid-level people (67%, actually) march right into top-level meetings and shoot themselves in the foot by: 1) not saying what they want at the beginning; 2) having too many PowerPoint slides; and 3) rigidly sticking to their scripts. This is a formula for career suicide. The rules that are outlined by C-level executives in this book will help you survive and even thrive in the most challenging of all presentation environments, the C-suite.

About the Author

Bio: Frederick Gilbert, PhD Rick is the founder and chairman of PowerSpeaking, Inc., a speech communication training company in Redwood City. For 25 years, PowerSpeaking has been dramatically improving the way people communicate and grow their careers. With its highly skilled trainers and facilitators, PSI delivers over 300 programs a year nationally and around the world. Before starting his own company, Rick held quality improvement and communications management positions with Hewlett Packard and Amdahl corporations in Silicon Valley. Rick's coaching of over 200 senior-level executives led to the creation of the award winning Speaking Up: Presenting to Executives. The program won The 2004 Best Buys by Training Magazine, was recommended by Fortune Magazine, and won the Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning award for 2011. It features video interviews with 21 C-level executives about how to present effectively at top level meetings. His book, Speaking Up: Surviving Executive Presentations will be out in January, 2012.