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The Manager's Guide to Presentations

The Manager's Guide to Presentations

By : Lauren Hug
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The Manager's Guide to Presentations

The Manager's Guide to Presentations

4.8 (12)
By: Lauren Hug

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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The Manager's Guide to Presentations
The Manager's Guide to Presentations
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
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1
Planning Your Presentation
Planning Your Presentation
The presentation planning process
Beginning with you
Addressing your concerns
Setting your own personal goal
Identifying your strengths
Leveraging your management skills
Setting your presentation goal
Presentation parameters
Summary
2
Developing Your Presentation
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Developing Your Presentation
What should you say in your presentation?
What does the audience need to know?
Why should your audience care?
Why should your audience act?
Why do you care?
Organizing your presentation
Opening
Appealing to the audience
Points (informing and persuading)
Fleshing out your presentation
Types of content
A note about slides
Including the audience in your presentation
Introducing interaction
Summary
3
Practicing Your Presentation
Practicing Your Presentation
Speaking with authority
Rehearsing your presentation
Preparing for Q&A sessions
Summary
4
Giving Your Presentation
Giving Your Presentation
Before – Managing anxiety
During – Connecting with your audience
After – Obtaining feedback
Summary

A note about slides

You may have noticed that I haven't mentioned PowerPoint or any other presentation programs yet. There's a reason for that. Despite the near universal rush to start a PowerPoint document when faced with a presentation, slides are not synonymous with presentations. Slides are not content. Slides are merely one method of communicating.

An effective presentation is planned and prepared long before the presenter sits down to create a slide deck. That's why we've walked through the process of planning and developing your first presentation without considering presentation software. By focusing on your audience and purpose (and not the pre-programmed formats and limitations of PowerPoint), you have sketched the contours of a presentation that will effectively fulfill the audience's expectations of you as a new manager. Maybe you've even realized that your presentation will be better without a deck. Slides have become so ubiquitous in presentations that audiences often immediately...

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