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The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

by Carmine Gallo

Updated to include Steve Jobs's iPad and iPad2 launch presentations

“The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide...

Advanced Presentations by Design: Creating Communication That Drives Action

by Andrew Abela

Advanced Presentations by Design overturns much of the conventional wisdom and practice for creating presentations. Based on over 200 research studies from the fields of communication, marketing, psychology,...

The Art and Science of Communication: Tools for Effective Communication in the Workplace

by P. S. Perkins & Les Brown

The Art and Science of Communication shows you a new way to understand and use communication in the workplace. Revealing the seven types of communication we all use every day, the book shows you how to increase...

The Pitching Bible

by Paul Boross

The Pitching Bible captures the author's 25 years experience of pitching to media and business audiences and guides the reader through the Seven Secrets to a Successful Business Pitch which cover each step to...

How to Say It: Be Indispensable at Work: Winning Words and Strategies to Get Noticed, Get Hired, andGet Ahead

by Jack Griffin

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid: The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have Taken

by Franck Frommer & George Holoch

With over 500 million users worldwide, Microsoft’s PowerPoint software has become the ubiquitous tool for nearly all forms of public presentation—in schools, government agencies, the military, and, of course,...

Fearless Facilitation: The Ultimate Field Guide to Engaging (and Involving!) Your Audience

by Cyndi Maxey & Kevin O'Connor

As the workforce ages and younger trainers and managers emerge, facilitation skills take on a new importance and, with the increased use of social networks, new facilitation skills are needed. Written by two...

Speaking Up: Surviving Executive Presentations

by Frederick Gilbert

Presenting to senior decision makers can be a terrifying "through the looking glass" moment. The stakes are high-one presentation can make or break a career-but the rules are utterly unclear. This book is an...

Successful Presentation Skills

by Andrew Bradbury

A good presentation involves effective communication and essential for business success. From training new employees to building rapport with potential clients, the ability to deliver information is a required...

Improve Your Communication Skills

by Alan Barker

Communicate in a professional manner in any situation. Whether you're making a sales pitch or addressing a large audience, there are ways to get your message across clearly and effectively every time. Using...

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown & James Macanufo

Great things don't happen in a vacuum. But creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge. How can you make it happen at your company? The answer may surprise you: gamestorming....

Communication Skills for Managers: EBook Edition

by Janis Fischer CHAN

Communicating clearly is a critical skill for successful managers! The ability to communicate clearly is the critical core competency for successful managers at all levels and in all industries. This book is...

Interpersonal Communication Skills in the Workplace: EBook Edition

by Perry MCINTOSH & Richard A. LUECKE

Effective communication is an important element of success for every organization, leader, manager, supervisor, and employee. Good communication skills are a prerequisite for advancement in most fields and are...

Presentation Success: How to Plan, Prepare, and Deliver Effective Presentations - EBook Edition

by Janis Fischer CHAN

What does it take to impress an audience? No more boring presentations! Presentation Success gives you what it takes to succeed-spectacularly-when you stand up to impress an audience. Packed with easy-to-use...

The Executive Guide to Facilitating Strategy

by Michael Wilkinson

STOP WASTING TIME DEVELOPING STRATEGIC PLANS THAT DON'T GET IMPLEMENTED!

Far too often, people experience strategic planning as a wasted activity-painful, unproductive, and irrelevant to the issues at hand....

The Pin Drop Principle: Captivate, Influence, and Communicate Better Using the Time-Tested Methods of Professional Performers

by David Lewis & G. Riley Riley Mills

Tap into the powerful techniques of professional actors and great communicators

The Pin Drop Principle is a step-by-step master class for anyone wishing to become a more confident and credible communicator. Lewis...

Human Resource Development as We Know It

by Monica Lee

The field of Human Resource Development has developed largely through academics, scholars and reflective practitioners from across the world coming together. Many people link memorable keynote speeches to changes...

How Audiences Decide

by Richard Young

How Audiences Decide: A Cognitive Approach to Business Communication is a comprehensive introduction to persuasive communication in the context of business. ??It summarizes relevant theories and findings from...

The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century

by Jeffrey Cruikshank & Arthur Schultz

We're living in the Age of Persuasion. Leaders and organizations of all kinds--public and private, large and small--fulfill their missions only by competing in the marketplace of images and messages. To win...

Expanding Our Now: The Story of Open Space Technology

by Harrison H. Owen

At the start of this thoughtful and revelatory book, Harrison Owen relates the story of how he was lunching with a senior official of the American Society for Training and Development, who observed that if what...