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“Reading this book changed my presentation style and my slides, both for the better - and I've been a professional speaker for over 30 years.” ~ Becki L. James

How to Design TED-Worthy Presentation Slides is a short, practical and step-by-step guide to creating sexy slides. It is based on an extensive analysis of some of the best TED speakers, such as Brene Brown, Daniel Pink, Amy Cuddy, Larry Lessig, Seth Godin, Bill Gates and many, many more.

LEARN HOW TO BREATHE LIFE INTO YOUR SLIDES, INSTEAD OF DRAINING IT OUT OF YOUR AUDIENCE

By the end of this guide, you too will be able to create sexy presentation slides that keep your audiences mesmerized. More importantly, you will be able to design presentations that breathe life into your slides, instead of draining it out of your audience.

Here’s just a taste of what you’ll learn inside the book:

•The most common mistake most presenters make – and how you can avoid it

•The one principle that will make you better than 90% of most speakers

•How to quickly create a presentation storyboard

•Bill Gates’ trick for transforming his slides from dull to dashing

•The Seth Godin presentation formula

•The importance of contrast

•Locating and using sexy fonts

•Spicing up your presentations with video

•Displaying data without being dull

•Ensuring consistency between slides

•How to deliver a great TED talk (or any other speech or presentation)

•And much, much more…

MASTER THE ONE THING ALL GREAT TED TALKS HAVE IN COMMON

What is the secret to delivering a great TED talk?

What is the magic ingredient that makes a TED talk captivating?

And more importantly, how can you use those secrets to make your presentations more powerful, dynamic and engaging?

To try to answer these questions, I studied over 200 of the best TED talks. I broke each TED talk down in terms of structure, message and delivery.

Here’s what I discovered. After studying over 200 TED talks, the one commonality among all the great TED talks is that they contain stories.

UTILIZE ADVANCED STORYTELLING TECHNIQUES TO INJECT LIFE INTO YOUR PRESENTATIONS

Essentially, the best speakers on the TED stage were the ones who had mastered the art of storytelling. They had mastered how to craft and present their stories in a way that allowed them to share their message with the world without seeming like they were lecturing their audience.

DISCOVER THE 23 STORYTELLING SECRETS OF THE BEST TED TALKS

In this short but powerful guide, you’re going to learn how to use stories to make your presentations engaging and entertaining. Using case studies drawn from TED talks by Sir Ken Robinson, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Susan Cain, Leslie Morgan Steiner, Mike Rowe and Malcom Gladwell, you’ll learn how to craft stories that keep your audience mesmerized.

By the time you’ve finished reading this storytelling manifesto, you will have picked up twenty-three principles on how to create stories that keep your audiences mesmerized.

Whether you are giving a TED talk or a corporate presentation, you will be able to apply the principles you pick up in this guide to make your next talk a roaring success!

"How to Deliver a Great TED talk" is a complete public speaking system for delivering highly effective presentations and speeches.
If you've watched TED talks before, you've no doubt been inspired and electrified by speeches by figures such as Sir Ken Robinson, Jill Bolte Taylor, Simon Sinek and Dan Pink.
What makes these TED talks so inspiring?
What is the secret formula for creating a successful TED talk?
And how can you use this formula to deliver your own powerful TED talk (or any other presentation or speech, for that matter)?
If you follow the guidelines and tools How to Deliver a Great TED Talk (previously published as "How to Deliver the Perfect TED Talk"), I guarantee that your audience will have no choice but to be wrapped up in your speeches and presentations.
I studied more than 200 of the most inspiring TED talks, analyzed each one line by line and discovered the common elements that make them successful.
This book is the result of my intensive research. In it, you'll discover tools that will help make you twice the speaker you are today in half the time.
This book is also based on the work of bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath. In their groundbreaking book, Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath revealed six simple principles for creating memorable messages.
In this book, I have taken Chip and Dan's work and applied it to creating powerfully persuasive presentations. I use their SUCCESS framework and draw on examples from TED talks to show how the success principles can be applied to public speaking.
More specifically, you will learn how to:
Craft a repeatable power phrase
Utlize the ABC-C speech structure
Use rhetorical devices to spice up your speech
Create an attention-grabbing opening
Build the body of your presentation/speech
Craft a compelling closing
Use statistics to grab attention
Create a wow-moment
Bring your characters to life
Use analogies, metaphors and similes
Turn your stories into mental movies
Build your credibility with the speech introduction
Add internal credibility to your presentation
Build an emotional connection with your audience
Use compelling visuals
Use PowerPoint the right way
Arouse your audience's curiosity
Use Sir Ken Robinson and Dan Pink's techniques for adding humor to a speech
Use rhetorical questions to hook your audience into your presentation
Use the five C's of storytelling to create spell-binding stories
Deliver dynamic TED talk (or any other presentation or speech)
Whether you are scheduled to deliver a TED talk, a business presentation or a motivational or inspiring speech, this book will teach you the techniques used by some of the world's most powerful public speakers.
Learn the art of public speaking and persuasion by studying the speeches of inspiring speakers such as Anthony Robbins, Sir Ken Robinson, Mike Rowe and Dr. Jill Taylor.
Shorten your learning curve and learn the public speaking secrets most speakers never discover.
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