The complete presentation skills handbook how to understand and reach your audience for maximum impact and success /

• Main Author: Siddons, Suzy.
• Corporate Author: Gale Group.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London, England : Kogan Page, c2008.
• Series: Gale virtual reference library
• Subjects: Public speaking.; Business presentations.
• Online Access: Available for Universiti Teknologi MARA via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access

Offers advice on preparing and giving business presentations. Helps readers tailor their presentations to fit different audiences.

Table of Contents:

• Why give a presentation at all?
• Setting expectations
• Researching your audience
• Audience behaviours
• How people remember, what they forget
• Selecting your subject and organizing your information
• Writing the script
• Visuals
• Staging the presentation
• Voice and performance skills
• Nerves and body language
• Using microphones and autocues
• Rehearsals
• Equipment and visuals
• The question-and-answer session
• Delivering the presentation
• Technical presentations and demonstrations
• Controlling the audience
• Handling the media
• Training people to give presentations
• The role of the master of ceremonies
• Following up the presentation
• Alternatives to presentations
• Handling disasters.