Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals: Achieving Excellence

by Naomi Karten

Overview

This book gives you invaluable tips on how to make your presentation clear and accessible, how to interact with your audience and how to retain their interest while keeping your anxiety under control. Naomi Karten has used her vast experience — both positive and negative —on the front lines of public speaking to provide key advice (and many chuckles!) in this engrossing read for the technical professional.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849281553
Publisher:	IT Governance Publishing
Publication date:	09/23/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Highly experienced professional speaker and seminar leader, Naomi Karten has spent most of her career working in and with IT organisations. Drawing on her psychology and IT background, Naomi works with numerous organisations to help them improve customer satisfaction, manage change, and strengthen teamwork.

Highly experienced professional speaker and seminar leader, Naomi Karten has spent most of her career working in and with IT organisations. Drawing on her psychology and IT background, Naomi works with numerous organisations to help them improve customer satisfaction, manage change, and strengthen teamwork.

Naomi has already delivered seminars and presentations to more than 100,000 people right around the world. 

Table of Contents

1: Overview of the Basics

2: Finding Your Voice

3: Attributes of Good and Bad Presentations

4: Presentation Anxiety and How to Tame It

5: Key Steps in Shaping your Presentation

6: Openings and Closings

7: Interaction and the Adult Attention Span

8: The Powerful Impact of Stories

9: Using (Without Misusing) PowerPoint

10: Logistical Preparations

11: Presenter Survival Kit

12: The Vital Role of Practice

13: How to Make a Winning Impression

14: How Not to Annoy Your Audience

15: How to Handle Audience Questions

16: How to Manage a Difficult Audience

17: How to Conquer Nervousness

18: Presenting to Management

19: Presenting to Customers

20: Presenting to Your Team

21: Presenting to a Foreign Audience

22: Presenting at Conferences

23: Presenting Webinars

24: Presenting with Co-Presenters 

Editorial Reviews

'Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals by Naomi Karten is an expansive guide to honing the skills needed to wow an audience.'

CIO Magazine - Julian Goldsmith

'Offers invaluable tips on how to make presentations clear and accessible. From topics such as concisely outlining the aspects of good and bad presentations to effectively interacting with the audience, the advice is practical and geared specifically to a technical professional.'

Pam Boiros

'If you’re only going to read the first paragraph of this review, I will share the bottom line. If you get up in front of people, real or virtual, buy Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals: Achieving Excellence. Assuming you read at least one part of the book, you will have the tools to raise your game as a presenter ... Buy it, read it, use it as a reference.'

Tom Cagley, Editor at Software Process and Measurement Cast; Review taken from Podcast 117.

Tom Cagley

‘… It’s an easy and entertaining read, and I learned a lot… There is lots more great information about all aspects of presenting in this book. I highly recommend it to everyone who ever has to make a presentation’

Lisa Crispin, co-author of "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

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