Fear of public speaking is statistically more common than fear of death. So how can you get past the panic and succeed in public speaking?
Master the art of presenting with an approach based on content, mindset and confidence.
How to Present to Absolutely Anyone guides you from fear, to confidence, to success! Don't mumble your way through a PowerPoint or try to put flash over substance. Craft an engaging, informative presentation that people want to hear and that you want to present!
Reduce first-minute nerves
Reach your audience in a more authentic, organic way
Develop great content
Go beyond simple body language
Take your presentations to new heights
How to Present to Absolutely Anyone shows you how to deliver presentations your audience will love and you will enjoy doing!
'Whether you are presenting to the company board,or planning a best man's speech, this is a "must read" book full of great anecdotes and tips.'
Christopher Trippick, Head of Communications and External Affairs, Aquila ATMS
'Having seen Mark present and read the book, I have picked up some brilliant tips for maintaining a positive mental attitude and approach to presenting with confidence. I highly recommend going over the practical ideas in this book as they give you some quick wins to improve how you'll present tomorrow.'
Nikki Jacobi, Chief People Officer, Yell
From the Back Cover
Learn to love not dread public speaking.
Fear of public speaking is statistically more common than fear of death. So how can you get past the panic and succeed in public speaking?
Master the art of presenting with an approach based on content, mindset and confidence.
How to Present to Absolutely Anyone guides you from fear, to confidence, to success! Don't mumble your way through a PowerPoint or try to put flash over substance. Craft an engaging, informative presentation that people want to hear and that you want to present!
Reduce first-minute nerves
Reach your audience in a more authentic, organic way
Develop great content
Go beyond simple body language
Take your presentations to new heights
How to Present to Absolutely Anyone shows you how to deliver presentations your audience will love and you will enjoy doing!
'Whether you are presenting to the company board,or planning a best man's speech, this is a "must read" book full of great anecdotes and tips.'
Christopher Trippick, Head of Communications and External Affairs, Aquila ATMS
'Having seen Mark present and read the book, I have picked up some brilliant tips for maintaining a positive mental attitude and approach to presenting with confidence. I highly recommend going over the practical ideas in this book as they give you some quick wins to improve how you'll present tomorrow.'
Nikki Jacobi, Chief People Officer, YellMark Rhodes is an entrepreneur, business mentor, international speaker and trainer. This is a useful guide to how to give public presentations, including how to work on the content to make it interesting. Rhodes writes in a clear style that's jargon free and gives plenty of tips. There's nothing incredibly new here, but it gives you a solid grounding in what to do and how to get confidence in public speaking. On that basis, I think it's worth a look.Although this book starts off by addressing those who have a "fear" of public speaking it soon moves into a discussion of creating great content and delivering well. I don't have a fear of public speaking - I've been doing it for about 40 years and I now lecture at University. But, it's very easy to slip into a complacent approach so when I was offered the chance to review this book I was delighted to accept.
I learned a lot. Even though I rarely now do the sort of set piece presentations which the author does (at all day events for example) and don't have someone to introduce me or a time keeper to worry about there are some great tips here. I especially liked the Mark's "in motion start" - dealing with that "hesitation gap" which happens in so many public presentations.
I also thought that his thoughts about content creation were very helpful. And his suggestion that sections of a presentation can be likened to an artist playing tracks. By mixing and matching sections/tracks from your repertoire you can have multiple presentations at hand drawing upon the same material. You can re-order tracks to suit the occasion. And if you have timing issues (from your practice sessions you will know if you have timing issues) you can edit or expand your talk.
Practice. As Mark says that's how musicians get to be good. They sing the same song again and again. And not just on the show night. They practice.
Get there early so you can check out the room.
I already do a lot of these things but there are some great suggestions in here which I will adopt. For anyone inexperienced in public speaking this short book would be an excellent starting point.
I could be critical and say that it is slightly repetitive in places, but that may be deliberate reinforcement so I am happy to forgive.
I like the writing style too. Easy to read and understand. A definite 5 stars from me.
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