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FRONT MATTER ; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Special Note to You, the Student; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; The Gap; I Talk to You and No One Else ... ; How to Read this Book; Clear, Concise, Memorable; PART I THE WORLD OF PRESENTING; 1 I HATE PRESENTATIONS; Visualization Time: Picture Yourself; Fully Within Your Grasp; Rid Yourself of Negative Talk; Not My Job ... ; The One Superb Skill; Transformation Time; Your Shrinking World; Here's Why ... ; Who Teaches this Stuff, Anyway?; What About Your Professors?; The Malaise in Corporate America. |
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On the Cusp of Greatness ... Or Something Fairly Close Big Ideas; 2 PUBLIC SPEAKING: THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PRESENTER; The Power of Personal Presence; Personal presence; Who is a Presenter?; On-the-Job Presentation Training -- And Increased Income; The Three Groups; Group one: The impossible dream; Group two: This is easy stuff!; Group three: Into the Power Zone!; Then ... take the red pill; The Source of Advantage Today; 3 BASICS OF YOUR TALK; Structure, Content, Audience; Your Presentations; Your Framework; We Assume Your Paper Is Done ... Now It's Time for the Presentation; Packaging Your Analysis. |
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Starting -- The Beginning Staging -- The Middle; Stopping -- The Ending; Your Audience; Bad Advice; "Don't put your hand in your pocket ... it looks 'unprofessional'"; "Make eye contact"; "Move around when you talk"; "Just the facts"; "The numbers tell the story"; "You have too many slides"; "Practice your talk in the mirror"; Conclusion; PART II THE SEVEN SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL SPEAKERS: FROM STICK-PUPPET TO 3D PRESENTING ; 4 STANCE; Nonverbal Signaling -- It Can be Intentional or Otherwise; Stand Tall -- Here's Why; Your Current Stance -- Does It Help You or Hurt You?; Bad Business Stance. |
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Bad Influence Leave Behind the Herd of Mediocrity; The Power of Body Language -- Bend It to Your Will; Three Effects; Create Positive Energy; Building Your Ready Position; The Basic Stance; The Classic Stance; Burn Your Stance into Your Consciousness; Do not!; You Have Your Foundation -- Time to Build; The First Step -- Your Hands; 5 VOICE: "I FEEL ESPECIALLY POWERFUL TODAY!"; Voice Quality -- A Case of "Bad Voice"?; Take Your Voice for a Spin; Cartoon Voice is Everywhere; The Dum-Dum Disease; Good News!; Why Change?; Time for You to Take Control; Time to Improve; The Basic Changes; Techniques. |
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Inflection The Verbal Down-Tic; The Verbal Grind; Pitch and pace; Pause; Power of the pause; Purging; Conclusion; Further reading on voice; 6 GESTURE; Bad Gesture Goes Way Back; What's Gesture?; The Power of Gesture; The Foundation; Your Repertoire of Gestures; Your Attitude; Conclusion; Further reading on gesture; 7 EXPRESSION; Bad Expression; Lost Ancient Secrets; A Curl of the Lip ... ; Earnestness; Eyes, Mouth, Brow -- Your Secret Weapons; Smile; Eyes and brow; Frown; How to Develop Earnestness; Drama; Life. Variety. Intensity. Color.; Conclusion; Further reading on expression. |
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movement: no more stick-puppet presenting. |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
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9780857285515 (electronic bk.) |
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0857285513 (electronic bk.) |
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