Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get Results

by David Booth, Deborah Shames, Peter Desberg

Don't Just Present. Persuade, Inspire, and Perform!
Powerhouse presentations that engage and move your audience
Imagine if every presentation received rapt attention and buy-in from the audience.
Start getting these results with Own the Room, featuring the renowned Eloqui Method-innovative techniques that leave boring behind.
Research shows a memorable presentation is a combination of stirring your audience's emotions while appealing to its intellect. This team of authors has developed techniques that tap into the persuasive, expressive aspects of presentations-employed over the past ten years by Fortune 500 companies such as TD Ameritrade, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Merrill Lynch, Siemens, and Pfizer.
This effective method brings you:

Genres: Communication, Leadership, Business, Professional Development

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Fahim · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read book for anyone who wants to go on the stage. Own the Room takes you through a step to step journey of understanding fabulous presentation skills. Starting from owning a role as presenter you will learn about stage confidence, power point making, delivery skills and eventually creating an impression on your audience. All of these points and many more are covered in this book. I strongly recommend this book for every graduate student, specially business students.

The language of this book is very simple and understandable. The authors share some life examples of their own company to help the reader understand about the ups and downs of good presentation delivery.

Read this book. Build your skills and ROCK ON THE STAGE!!!

Good luck.

[mr. w · Rating 5 out of 5]

what a beast

[Noma Bruton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mr. Booth and Ms. Shames both hail from the entertainment industry and I was, initially, somewhat reluctant to take their advice - given I am in an industry perceived to be much more conservative: banking and finance. I could not have been more wrong. The methodology they have developed may be founded in theater, but the results are improved business presentations as well as much more productive one-on-one conversations; especially when the stakes are high. Having both read the book and been personally coached by David and Deborah, I have first-hand experience with their process. It works.

[Stephen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is much more than I expected. It totally exceeded my expectations in every way. Not only is it about crafting really great presentations but it will help you think about every conversation you ever have. Know your INTENT before you speak, then encapsulate everything you say around that one SINGLE intent. It also has a great section on knowing your role and being sure that it is clear to your audience leading to less confusion and more persuasive presentations. This book could have been called "Crafting Conversations that Persuade". I really enjoyed this book.

[Bibhu Ashish · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book that gives a lot of techniques to overcome stage freight and present a powerful presentation. The most important parts of the book are chapter two and chapter eleven which give a lot of details about the roles that we need to identify while presenting a topic and the basic things to take care of while preparing for a presentation respectively. The rest of the book deals with the public speaking phobia people has and how to overcome this. Overall a great book which is highly recommended.

[Adama · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to read and full of tips

I like this book. It's concise, easy to read and full of useful tips for business presentation; from your body language to the tone of your voice and to the use of PowerPoint slides.

But most importantly, there I s a great advice consistently repeated in the book: you are the star, PowerPoint is your backup.

Overall a good book to read.

[Jesper Krognos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Introduces some remarkably different thoughts about how to present and they give provide really good examples to illustrate their points.

[PeterBlackCoach · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tips and techniques using the dramatic arts as a foundation to deliver better presentations. Good tips on opening, closing, Powerpoint and being memorable.

[Allie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone should own a copy.