Product Description

Are you confident that you know what you want to achieve with your next presentation? Do you know for sure what your audience wants from it? Are you absolutely certain your presentation will deliver – both for you, and your audience?

In this practical book you will discover a completely new way to prepare yourself for a presentation. Packed with real life examples and case studies, at times laugh out loud, it will show you how to do presentations that deliver, for you, your audiences, your team, your business.

Surprise everyone, perhaps especially yourself, by becoming an excellent and relaxed presenter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58491 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 212 pages

Review
“…a practical book.” (PublicNet.co.uk, Tuesday 1st April 2008)

Review
“…a practical book.” (PublicNet.co.uk, Tuesday 1st April 2008)

From the Author
I like being busy, having my mind occupied when I'm at work, and hate being bored. And almost nothing bores me more than being trapped in a tedious presentation. What can you do until it finishes except sit there and suffer?

And many of those I coach - indeed, my first ever client - find preparing and doing presentations very stressful.

That's why I came up with GOER (Goal, Outline, Elaborate and Refine) a four stage process at the heart of this book. I developed it during two decades of writing and producing corporate videos - the PowerPoint presentations of their day. It will enable you to prepare and do better presentations, more quickly, and more easily.

What's wonderful about GOER is that it works for those who use it, for audiences (they'll get what you mean, swiftly) and for businesses, streamlining and improving communications.

That's really what this book is about: making the whole world of work a more exciting, less frustrating place, where we all listen and talk to each other in a more meaningful way. That's my vision, and I hope you'll want to be part of it.

James Caplin

Customer Reviews

A book to read - and use!
A book that really needed to be written. It completely re-frames the concept of 'Presenting' and makes it a day-to-day skill that we all need and have - if only we knew how to access it. And this book teaches us how to do exactly that.

James's book is written for the individual but as a coach I'm finding it incredibly useful. Travelling to see a client, I abandoned my PC and the newspaper in it's favour and was so glad I had - it's a fun and compelling read and ........ I used some of the thinking from the first few chapters with 2 of the 3 clients I worked with that day and they really benefited from it.

It's one of those books that I know I'll be constantly giving away and having to buy yet another copy for myself!

Hilary Cochrane, Executive Coach

Really useful stuff
I think this is essential reading for all of us who, from time to time, are called upon to make presentations. The big takeaway for me was about shifting the focus from obsessing about having beautiful powerpoint to understanding that what's on the slides - if I now choose to use them at all - is just the back drop to me presenting myself. I'm then freer to be more natural.

The book came my way just as I was called upon to do a presentation for a pitch. As I write this, I don't yet know if I got the work or not, but I know from having used James' book as a bit of a manual for my preparation, that I feel very confident in how it went. Irrespective of the outcome, that's a great place to be. Thank you James!

Don't hate presentations any more than you have to...
If, like many others, you break out into a cold sweat at the thought of giving presentations, then maybe you should try reading this book. Caplin shows a whole new way of delivering presentations that is such a break with tradition that it could just work for you. Written in a no-nonsense style by an experienced presenter, this book takes you through a new step-by-step process that focusses on beginning a dialogue with your audience that will be mutually beneficial. If you really hate presentations, give it a go. What have you got to lose?