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How to open a presentation: Best ways to fascinate the audience right from the beginning
Are you at lost wondering why your lectures are not memorable as you would like them to be?
* How come you see such great presentation on TED but your own does not leave the impression you wanted to get?
* do you want to be perceived as the best speaker in your organization?
“How to open a presentation” is a practical guide to become a perfect presenter.
If it’s a lecture, a speech, a training session or a TED talk, the most important point that defines you success is the beginning of the presentation. A good first impression is the secret of great presentations.
This book will introduce useful concepts and ideas that you can put into practice at your very next presentation.
Presentation skills and public speaking abilities are essential and key subjects to learn in the 21st century.
* How come you see such great presentation on TED but your own does not leave the impression you wanted to get?
* do you want to be perceived as the best speaker in your organization?
“How to open a presentation” is a practical guide to become a perfect presenter.
If it’s a lecture, a speech, a training session or a TED talk, the most important point that defines you success is the beginning of the presentation. A good first impression is the secret of great presentations.
This book will introduce useful concepts and ideas that you can put into practice at your very next presentation.
Presentation skills and public speaking abilities are essential and key subjects to learn in the 21st century.
38 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 25, 2013
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August 11, 2014
4 stars
How to Open a Presentation is a fast-reading and very helpful book on how to make your presentations interesting and wowing to the audience.
Avi Salmon talks about the importance of first impressions (and how difficult it is to change them), following with several effective techniques on how to get your audience’s attention the minute you start your presentation: telling a story, asking about a number, using humour and jokes, questioning the audience with “who here wants too...?” or with riddles, creating an image or bringing an object, or even playing a game or staging a confrontation.
If you manage to start your presentation on the right foot, not only will you build confidence to speak but the audience itself will be more receptive to your words.
I recommend this book to students, especially, and also to anyone who has not yet mastered speaking in public and making presentations.
How to Open a Presentation is a fast-reading and very helpful book on how to make your presentations interesting and wowing to the audience.
Avi Salmon talks about the importance of first impressions (and how difficult it is to change them), following with several effective techniques on how to get your audience’s attention the minute you start your presentation: telling a story, asking about a number, using humour and jokes, questioning the audience with “who here wants too...?” or with riddles, creating an image or bringing an object, or even playing a game or staging a confrontation.
If you manage to start your presentation on the right foot, not only will you build confidence to speak but the audience itself will be more receptive to your words.
I recommend this book to students, especially, and also to anyone who has not yet mastered speaking in public and making presentations.
April 24, 2015
On one hand I see some of the methods presented as cheap sensationalism, this book delivers: it is short, it is clear, it is practical.
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