Product Description

Brilliant Presentation What does it take to present with impact, confidence and flair? Brilliant presenting can transform your career. It can save companies, inspire people and make things happen. It's never been so important. Yet most of us try to avoid it at all costs or muddle through somehow, someway. But here's the thing: you're expected to be good at it. Presenting is a core business skill if you want to get on, you need to be good. How do you do it? Hard work, motivation, practice and, your secret weapon, Brilliant Presentation. No matter what your current level is, Brilliant Presentation will help you become a brilliant presenter. Every aspect of presenting is covered from dealing with nerves through to the mysterious art of presentation performance. Packed full of anecdotes from the most accomplished presenters around, you'll find all the tools, tips and encouragement you need to make a sensation at presentations.Brilliant outcomes: Learn the five levels of presentation mastery Discover how to make your presentation powerful, colourful and memorable Always feel confident and inspired to give it your very best shot 'Hall combines a tool-kit, critical pointers and presentation anecdotes from stars in this excellent book. Advice includes boosting self-confidence by proclaiming I feel totally shameless today. Rock on!' Management Today voted the book the best of its kind'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35621 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 182 pages

Review

Brilliant Presentation was picked as the "best of its kind" in Management Today in November '07:

'Hall combines a tool-kit, critical pointers and presentation anecdotes from stars in this excellent book.  Well-structured and thoughtfully laid outBrilliant Presentation gives tips for presenters at all levels from novice to expert.  Advice includes boosting self-confidence by proclaiming 'I feel totally shameless today.' Rock on!'

From the Back Cover

Brilliant Presentation

What does it take to present with impact, confidence and flair?

Brilliant presenting can transform your career. It can save companies, inspire people and make things happen. It’s never been so important. Yet most of us try to avoid it at all costs or muddle through somehow, someway. But here’s the thing: you’re expected to be good at it. Presenting is a core business skill – if you want to get on, you need to be good. How do you do it? – Hard work, motivation, practice and, your secret weapon, Brilliant Presentation.

No matter what your current level is, Brilliant Presentation will help you become a brilliant presenter. Every aspect of presenting is covered from dealing with nerves through to the mysterious art of presentation performance. Packed full of anecdotes from the most accomplished presenters around, you’ll find all the tools, tips and encouragement you need to make a sensation at presentations.

 Brilliant outcomes:

Learn the five levels of presentation mastery

Discover how to make your presentation powerful, colourful and memorable

Always feel confident and inspired to give it your very best shot

'Hall combines a tool-kit, critical pointers and presentation anecdotes from stars in this excellent book. Advice includes boosting self-confidence by proclaiming “I feel totally shameless today.” Rock on!'

Management Today – voted the book the ‘best of its kind’

About the Author

Richard Hall is Chairman of RH&a and Showcase Presentations Limited and has been recently Chair of many marketing services businesses including flying Pictures and kaizo. His background is in marketing and advertising. Now he specialises in executive mentoring, team building and strategic consulting. He has just finished his fourth book for Pearson, The Secrets of Success At Work. He says his mission is to turn good people into great people by inspiring them, by accentuating their positive assets and by making them feel excited by the world in which they live.

Customer Reviews

Presentations can be career opportunities: here's how to do them
This is an ambitious book; it covers a lot of ground in relatively few pages. It is terse, opinionated, challenging and prescriptive. It is full of useful tips and checklists. It is written by someone who, you feel, has sat through - and given - a lot of presentations and thought long and hard about why a few are excellent but many so bad.

It will do your presentations (and thereby your career) the world of good.

Pompous and ridiculous but with some valuable information
"If you're talking about innovation and you want to explore that WOW factor, why not put a WOW card on every seat for the audience to wave whenever they feel a WOW moment" ..... ARE YOU SERIOUS? ... Who is he presenting to children or the mentally challenged or what?? Am I the only one who thinks that would be hilarious to watch? This is the sort of cringe-moment that spoils this book (and trust me there are plenty of them).
However, the book does have SOME useful information, if you can get past the pompous style of the author who seems to think that using big words to explain simple concepts makes him sound more intelligent, despite the fact the he advises clarity over complexity as a key part of good presentations.
I found this book quite annoying with very little insightful information worth underlining. The author's style is just all over the place and at times quite boring and pointless to be perfectly honest. He also tells of how he once ate "half an Airwick solid air-freshner in front of an astonished account team to prove how pure and safe it was" "I remember feeling so strongly that there had never been a better bluer loo cleaner" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What a passionate individual. This book is surreal

Essential reading for ANYONE doing presentations
This book is the best that I've come across. It's easy to take in because it's clear, makes total sense and also has some inspirational advice and tips which you can actually use and make a big difference. It covers everything you could want to know from how to over come nerves (and actually says it's ok to feel nervous) to the more practical side of putting a presentation together. I have taken loads from this book and it's definitely helped me take my presentations and my presenting skills to the next level. I've got a few of these types of books and this is one of the few I would whole heartedly recommend.