Innovative Presentations for Dummies - (For Dummies) by Ray Anthony & Barbara Boyd (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Innovative Presentations For Dummies is a practical guide to engaging your audience with superior, creative, and ultra-compelling presentations. Using clear language and a concise style, this book goes way beyond PowerPoint to enable you to reimagine, reinvent, and remake your presentations. Learn how to stimulate, capture, and hold your audience in the palm of your hand with sound, sight, and touch, and get up to speed on the latest presentation design methods that make you a speaker who gets audiences committed and acting upon your requests. This resource delves into desktop publishing skills, online presentations, analyzing your audience, and delivers fresh, new tips, tricks, and techniques that help you present with confidence and raw power.

Focused and innovative presentations are an essential part of doing business, and most importantly, getting business. Competition, technology, and the ever-tightening economy have made out-presenting your competitors more important than ever. Globally, an estimated 350 PowerPoint presentations are given every second. When it's your turn, you need to go high above and far beyond to stand out from the pack, and Innovative Presentations For Dummies provides a winning game plan. The book includes extensive advice on the visual aspect of presentations and, more importantly, it teaches you how to analyze your audience and speak directly to them. A personalized approach combined with stunning visuals and full sensory engagement makes for a winning presentation.

• Learn how to be an innovative, not just "effective" presenter in any situation
• Understand how to read and cater to specific audiences
• Create captivating visual materials using technology and props
• Creative customize presentations to best communicate with audiences

More and more employees are being called upon to make presentations, with or without prior training. With step-by-step instruction, vivid examples and ideas and a 360-degree approach to presentations, Innovative Presentations For Dummies will help to drastically improve your presentation outcomes as never before.

From the Back Cover

Learn to:

• Impress with superior, compelling, and creative presentations
• Use innovative ideas to out-present competitors
• Identify your audience's needs

Be the leader audiences will follow with innovative presentations

Do you want to enhance your presentations in creative and compelling ways? In plain English, this hands-on guide shows you how to reimagine, reinvent, and remake your presentations! You'll get up to speed on the latest presentation design and delivery methods, learn to develop targeted messages, and gain the skills to present with confidence and power.

• Awesome business presentations -- get a handle on ways to communicate with innovation and come across as a flawless presenter
• Can the canned presentation -- discover the secrets of presentation success, from analyzing and focusing on your audience to creating compelling content and honing your platform skills
• Grab and keep their attention -- find out how to keep your audience on the edge of their seats with time-tested tips on the laws of emphasis, engagement, interest, and repetition
• Wow them with multimedia visuals -- reinvent how you use visuals by combining imaginative board systems and props with the latest technology like tablets and augmented reality
• Make your message pop -- grasp the nuances involved in presenting to executives and decision-makers, presenting as a team, and presenting a pitch

Open the book and find:

• The different types of business presentations
• How to prepare for any response or behavior
• Advice on choosing presentation tactics that support your strategy
• Guidance on rehearsing for custom presentations
• The importance of starting out with a bang
• How to end your presentation on a high note
• Tips on choosing the best hardware and apps for your needs

About the Author

Ray Anthony has helped Fortune 500 clients close multi-million dollar deals by designing and developing extraordinarily innovative, solution-selling presentations with superior value propositions for his clients. Barbara Boyd has worked as a marketing and technology consultant for more than 10 years and is the author of several books.