Are you suffering from Data Presentation Zombification? Billions of dollars and thousands of hours are lost every year during ineffective business meetings worldwide. Data practitioners painstakingly present their valuable analytical insights, only to fall flat, inspiring more yawns than yeses. In Present Beyond Measure: Design, Visualize, and Deliver Data Stories That Inspire Action, Lea Pica provides a 4-phase, step-by-step blueprint for planning,...

Feeling stressed about your upcoming presentation? Whether you're nervous about how you'll organize your thoughts or how you'll articulate them on the big day, Presentations provides the quick guidelines and expert tips you need to: - Craft your message - Prepare and rehearse effectively - Engage your audience - Manage Q & A sessions Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series....

Through an engaging and humorous narrative, Peter Coughter presents the tools he designed to help advertising and marketing professionals develop persuasive presentations that deliver business. Readers will learn how to develop skills to create the perfect presentation.

For any business, enterprise, or organization, no matter what the industry is or where its based, there is one constant that rings true for them all: one of the most effective ways to communicate ideas and information is via a presentation. For some, giving a presentation before audiences that can include clients, peers, managers, or executives, it's as natural to do as drinking a glass of water. For others, it can be a less-than-pleasurable experience...

Atlanta-based trainer Bienvenu offers instruction and practical tools to develop and lead training sessions on presentation skills. Using her strategic communication model, she walks through all the phases of preparing a course, including class size, time requirements, selling the workshop to management, room setup, and other aspects. She includes worksheets, exercises, planning steps, scripts, lecture notes, overheads, and handouts.

Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. Looking at the positives of change often leads to success on the other side, so why not think that these are times of innovation instead? In this track, our objective is to learn how to capitalize on change or an idea, and to build a successful innovation business case. Learning Objectives Learn what an innovation business case is, and how it differs from an elevator pitch and a business plan Learn what...

Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. We cover business storytelling, how to appeal to listeners, the importance of demonstrating transformation, and provide some tangible examples of where effective storytelling has been a success. Once you understand how stories are built, you'll become a much more confident presenter and writer. Learning Objectives Learn how to build a story using Situation, Complication and Resolution Learn how to structure...

Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. How can you use storytelling in your everyday life? In this track, you'll learn about three different types of micro-story. We'll tell you how to structure stories about the past, the present and the future. Your tales will be so good that people will want to repeat them. Learning Objectives Learn why stories connect you with your audience Learn how to construct three types of micro-story Learn tips on...