Guide to Presentations (Guide to Series in Business Communication) - Softcover

Munter, Mary M.; Russell, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137075081 ISBN 13: 9780137075089

Publisher: Pearson, 2010

Synopsis

A brief, professional, reader-friendly guide to creating effective presentations.

Many people avoid giving presentations or simply suffer through them. Guide to Presentations, with its clear, concise, and practical information, helps readers understand how to prepare and practice in order to make presentations far less troubling.

The third edition features an entire chapter on PowerPoint® presentations.

About this title

Review:

Listed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five business "books you shouldn't miss." "Really a gem. - Former managing editor, Harvard Business Review "Short, compact, practical, and readable ...l liked it immensely." - Journal of Business Communication

From the Back Cover:

This concise, practical book is written for you if you need to give professional presentations.

• If giving a presentation makes you nervous, how can you relax?
• How can you enhance your credibility before, during, and after your presentation?
• How can you design slides to highlight key data and hold your audience's interest?
• How can you improve your nonverbal image (gestures, voice, stance, and so forth?
• How can you make sure your audience remembers the main points of your presentation?
• How can you become a more persuasive presenter?

Like all the books in the Prentice Hall Guides to Advanced Business Communications series, this book is . . .

• Brief: summarizes key ideas only
• Practical: offers clear, straightforward tools you can use
• Reader-friendly: provides easy-to-skim format

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0137075081
• ISBN 13: 9780137075089
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 168