Product Description

Life is a presentation. The ability to present one's ideas quickly and efficiently is a significant resource in today's business world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #331816 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Review
"Need to deliver your message with Power, Punch, and Pizzazz? This book delivers what it promises. You'll be a near expert by the end of the first chapter! One of the best books we've seen on the subject." -- Adult Ed Today

If you speak, you need this book. If you don't speak, you need it even more. Buy this book today! -- Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the New York Times best-selling series, Chicken Soup for the Soul

From the Publisher
Knockout Presentations is the indispensable guide to delivering your message with clarity and confidence. With hundreds of tips to improve your communication style in your personal and professional life, this book contains the valuable information that readers can use every day on the road to success. Great for interviews, presentations, first encounters with influential people, and every day poise, the essential communication guide teaches how to maximize your presence and effectively deliver your own message -- whatever that may be. Diane's easy style and down-to-earth advice assures even the most reluctant public speaker. The useful exercises, case studies and do's and don'ts make learning easy and fun. In the end, Knockout Presentations will give you the confidence and power to impress even the most critical audiences.

From the Back Cover
Whether speaking one-on-one or before a large audience, you are making a presentation -- of both your ideas and yourself. Now you can dazzle any audience with the expert advice and creative ideas Diane DiResta has used to train thousands of business people and celebrities in the art and skill of delivering Knockout Presentations.

Customer Reviews

Where You Want To Go For One-Stop Presentation Skills
I've known Diane DiResta's work for many years. She is the "Queen of Presentations". Her book provides a no-nonsense approach to the art of clear, precise and meaningful communications to audiences large and small. I've taught Presentation Skills courses myself for over 25 years in the corporate world and I refer to her works in almost a "biblical" sense. She knows what she's saying. She's been there, she's done that! Great primer.

A practical and useful book
Another reviewer said it is not often that a book lives up to its title: especially with words like 'power' and 'pizzaz' as part of the promise. This book certainly did for me. It is not full of jargon. It is not full of pictures and distraction. What it does have it clear ideas, simply given that you can immediately put into practise.
The book covers basics like dealing with nerves as well as advanced issues like presenting with an interpreter. This makes it a great choice for all levels of presenter.
A great addition to anyone's library for a small dollar purchase.

General Advices About Public Speech
The book is about how you should prepare to public speech. It talks about how to setup a stage, how to work with a michrophone, how to walk in a stage and the known advices as 'know your audience' and 'rehearse'.

I think this might be good reading if you lack any clue about the process but for people that need to improve their presentation skills it's not worth. Also there's almost nothing on tips for preparing slides (the most common media, I think).

The author keeps giving infinite acronyms where she wants to work on topics (almost all topic groups gets its own) and it's really annoying.