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Search - The Introverted Presenter: Ten Steps for Preparing and Delivering Successful Presentations

The Introverted Presenter Ten Steps for Preparing and Delivering Successful Presentations
Author: Richard Tierney

The introvert is a personality type that draws energy from the outside inward. According to standard personality testing assessments, most people are introverts and no group is more introverted than technical professionals. Introverts are congenitally programmed to recoil from the prospect of public speaking with fear and loathing, yet making pr... more »esentations to expert and non-expert audiences is an inescapable requirement for career advancement in any technical field. Presentation coach Richard Tierney rides to the rescue of fellow introverts in the IT and engineering sectors with The Introverted Presenter?his fail-safe guide to delivering competent presentations, no matter how unsuited by nature you might be to the performing arts.This short book lays out the complete process guaranteed to raise you from a debilitating state of terror and aversion to a comfortable place of clarity, calm, and competence?perhaps even brilliance, if you can train yourself to convert the free energy of your fear into controlled performance. Tierney repeatedly warns his introvert readers that they risk presentation fiasco if they skip, skimp, or change the order of any of the ten steps he prescribes for thoroughly and efficiently preparing their presentations.The surefire sequence of steps for The Introverted Presenter begins with defining your presentation?s audience and objective. The next step is to write the script of your speech in stages, constructing it on the basis of proven structural rules, cognitive laws, and dramatic tricks. Then you incrementally refine and tighten your script by delivering it iteratively, first in front of a mirror and then in front of increasingly critical test audiences, progressing from your cat to your boss. When you have a well-constructed and sound-tested script in hand and only then, you may create some slides to graft into your script in support of your opening action call and your concluding takeaways, which you commit to memory. Your slides should be limited to the smallest number possible (even zero) and the fewest possible words.What you’ll learnBy following the process precisely as described in this book, even the most introverted technology professional will gradually but surely acquire the ability toStructure a killer presentationCoach yourself into being the best performer you can beCraft a presentation that supplies your audience?s technical needs while activating its human sympathiesUse slides sparingly for best supporting effectDeploy elements of stagecraft like a trouperWho this book is for The primary readership is technology professionals who ordinarily shun the public-speaking limelight but find they need to pitch their work outside their team environments. The secondary readership is non-extroverts in the corporate, commercial, or academic worlds who have taken career promotions that involve presentations as part of their job descriptions.

ISBN-13: 9781484210895
ISBN-10: 1484210891
Publication Date: 3/31/2015
Pages: 110
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Apress
Book Type: Paperback
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