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Learn to influence audiences with storyopia: Stories that take them
on a journey from what is to what could be: Storytelling in
Presentations For Dummies shows you how to develop and deliver a
presentation through storytelling, keeping audience interested, and
most importantly, making them heroes that take action towards
change. You’ll learn how to cull stories from your own
experiences, and before you know it, you’ll have more stories
than Aesop has fables. You’ll learn about the latest presentation
software, so you can integrate visuals into your presentations and
avoid the dreaded “Death by PowerPoint.” You’ll also learn
how to deal with challenging on-the-spot situations, deliver
investor pitches and executive briefs, and present a paper at a
conference. Additionally, find out how to deliver someone else’s
content and make it your own. This book will help you level up
anywhere you need to present information by mastering the art of
savvy presentations—the most effective business communications
tools of our time. Identify experiences that can be molded into
stories that drive change. Prepare powerful openings to hook your
audience right away whether delivering in person, online, or hybrid
Have your audience get the most from your presentation with an
effective call to action Prepare a storyboard, which is like a
frame-by-frame roadmap, that will mesh together what you’ll show
and what you’ll tell Leverage software like Canva, Prezi, and
Storyboarder to tie your presentation together Enjoy the colorful
8-page mini-booklet, “Storytelling to Storyboarding” This
Dummies guide is perfect for any professional who needs to present,
and at some time all professionals do. It’s also for
entrepreneurs who want to build community and grow their business,
in addition to students who want to wow teachers and classmates.
In her newest book, business communications expert Sheryl
Lindsell-Roberts delivers timely advice for employees, managers,
and business owners on surviving and succeeding in today's
technology-dependent workplace.
An antidote to the boring business book, "New Rules for Today's
Workplace" is filled with real-life stories from workers at such
successful companies as TiVo, Pegasystems, OneBeacon Insurance, and
Brown Brothers Harriman. They all share secrets for today's key
challenges: managing and working remotely. Managers offer advice on
hiring remote workers and evaluating the performance of offsite
employees. Facilitators give tips on running virtual meetings.
At-home workers tell how to minimize distractions.
Each chapter is packed with ready-to-use strategies. Readers will
learn how to prepare attention-grabbing webinars, use Twitter as a
job-search tool, format an electronic resume so it gets noticed,
and much more.
Whether you're hankering to reap the rewards of the social
networking phenomena, joining a multigenerational workforce,
managing or working remotely, or you simply need to get up to speed
on the hottest techniques in business training, this practical
guide will show you how to get ahead and stay on top.
This latest title by business-writing expert Sheryl
Lindsell-Roberts offers up-to-the-minute advice on writing
electronic messages that are polished, polite, and effective. In
her signature no-nonsense style, she shows how effective electronic
communication can jump-start your business, advance your career,
and expand your social network.
135 Tips on Email and Instant Messages addresses issues such as how
libel and copyright laws apply to the Internet, using proper
etiquette, and organizing a cluttered in-box. Lindsell-Roberts
imparts a sense of humor to practical tips such as "don't glut
cyberspace with digital dross--know what isn't appropriate for
company email" and "eliminate thoughts that don't add value--don't
leave your harried readers to extract the hidden kernels." She
offers convenient phrases that can be used verbatim (including
subject lines proven to entice readers) and immediate solutions to
common problems (including five ways to personalize an email to a
large distribution that will increase the response rate).
Informative and entertaining, this handy resource is packed with
valuable information for anyone who wants to communicate
electronically with confidence and competence.
The ability to write well is a critical skill for professionals in
nearly
every field. Good writers provide leadership, influence decisions,
and advance their own careers. In this new book, Sheryl
Lindsell-Roberts
draws from her twenty-plus years of experience as a successful
consultant
for clients in business, education, and government. In a lively,
engaging
style, she explains how to write persuasively for virtually any
audience.
Part 1 addresses the basics of all business writing: understanding
the
reader, drafting, achieving the right tone, creating visual impact,
and editing.
Part 2 provides more specific advice on brochures, executive
summaries,
speeches, PowerPoint presentations, Web site content, and
much
more. Concrete examples illustrate practical strategies such as how
to
present a message positively instead of negatively, how to sequence
information for different kinds of readers, and how to use charts
to highlight
key points.
Packed with valuable information obtained from actual clients in
the
field, 135 Tips for Writing Successful Business Documents is
guaranteed to
help anyone who reads it write to hit the mark.
In "Speaking Your Way to Success," Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts draws on
25 years of experience as a business communications expert to
deliver straightforward guidelines for today's professionals on how
to speak powerfully and effectively. Whether talking in front of a
large group or engaging in a one-to-one conversation, this book
will help anyone to speak up, speak well, and get noticed.
Chapters include:
-- Making Introductions
-- Developing Listening Skills
-- Using Politically Neutral Language
-- Interviewing and Being Interviewed
-- Speaking in Public
-- Communicating Cross-Culturally
-- Harnessing the Power of Today's Multigenerational
Workforce
In her signature no-nonsense style, Lindsell-Roberts shows
speakers how to pay attention to their audience, support their
words with body language, interject stories the audience will
relate to and enjoy, encourage audience interaction, and
more.
This book is packed with specific suggestions that can be applied
immediately on topics such as giving and receiving compliments,
keeping a conversation going, asking for a raise, and cold calling.
There are strategies for introducing yourself when you don't know
anyone at an event, techniques for initiating conversation, and a
checklist for rating your listening skills. Lindsell-Roberts also
has a proven, no-fail attack plan for how to work a room.
Stop lurking quietly in the shadows and start speaking your way to
success
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