Presentation Skills 201: How to Take It to the Next Level as a Confident, Engaging Presenter

by William R. Steele

Are you already a good presenter but want to be even better?Do you want to take your skills to a whole new level?A small number of presenters don’t settle for being good. They want to be exceptional.They want to have the kind of speaking skills that routinely open doors, winpromotions, land business, secure approvals and project leadership. They’re always looking for “one more thing” they can do to “take it up a notch.”Does this describe you? If it does, you don’t have to look any further for that “one more thing.” Presentation Skills 201 has more than 95 ways you can boost your effectiveness as a speaker!This is not a step-by-step guide to creating and delivering presentations. There are plenty of excellent books that meet that need. Instead, this is a collection of proven presenting tips that Bill Steele has assembled from his twenty-plus years as a presentation coach and trainer.Implement just a few of these tips and you’ll see an immediate difference in your speaking effectiveness. Implement many of them and everybody will stand up and take notice of your powerful presentation skills.

Genres: Business

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 13, 2009

Reviews

[Brad Anderson]

Lives up to its title and delivers a solid resource on the finer points of business presentations.

Many ideas felt right based on my own experiences. Was very interesting to see such ideas written down.

Other ideas were new and I jotted half a dozen specific tactics down that I plan to put into practice immediately. Once I master those, the sheer expanse of content here demands another pass.

[Aaron Bolin]

Very solid advice. I will use this material.

William Steele delivers a very solid volume of professional presentation tips. I probably won't use every tip in the book, but the ratio of useful to non-useful tips is quite high.

The book is well-written and concise. In terms of criticism, the book was a little bit light in overall structure. That is, the author is literally presenting a collection of tips and techniques - not a integrated method for delivering presentations. Of course, a collection of tips and techniques is exactly what he promised to deliver on the title page.

I would recommend this book to anyone trying to improve his/her presentation skills. "Presentation Skills 201" is a apt title. This book would help a novice presenter, but it would be immediately useful to an experienced presenter trying to get better.

[Alexander Belotserkovskiy]

Presentation Skills 201 is a comprehensive source of professional tips for presentation experts. It is very useful to have it always at workplace. But if you already read tons of books dedicated to professional presentation skills you will not find any new in that book.
Still i strongly recommend that.