A guide to conquering the corporate meeting. It helps you learn the essential subtle tricks that pay big dividends by making you look really clever in meetings: constant nodding, pretend concentration, useless rhetorical questions, how to nail the big presentation by pacing and getting someone else to control your slides.

This book offers the first comprehensive guide to poster presentation at academic, scientific and professional conferences.

At some stage in our lives, we all have to face the fear of making a speech. Whether it is at a friend s wedding or at work preparing a presentation, everyone dreads public speaking.

A do-it-yourself speaking coach, mentor, and image consultant rolled into one, this humorous book shows how to get your point across and win your audience.

Learn and practice the powerful skills of good communication to get the very best from relationships both at work and home. Clever tips, techniques, practical pointers and real life examples will help you boost and polish your communication skills as you learn the best ways to say what you mean to get what you want.

A brand new guide to communicating for success by making immediate and indelible connections: it's How to Win Friends and Influence People crossed with Talk Like Ted.

A Super Quick guide to giving successful presentations, from preparing material and getting timings right to body language and confidence.

An Introducing Practical Guide to speaking - whether one-to-one or two a large audience - with confidence.

Using extensive research based on empirical evidence, this title provides the reader with practical and simple guidelines, exercises and tips to improve performance, including: advice on the use of classical rhetoric; how to write a speech when in a rush; the myths surrounding visual aids; the use of body language; and more.

The essential guide to running brilliant meetings and workshops, in person and virtually. From initial idea through preparation to delivery and follow-up, and with helpful templates and checklists, discover the secrets of running really effective group sessions.

This book provides an accessible guide to the fundamentals of effective business communication. Taking account of the thinking processes which inform the way we interact, it will help you process information more effectively and create stronger relationships and networks.

Make the next presentation you do, the best you've ever done. The Presentation Book shows how you can easily put your nerves behind you and calmly and confidently deliver a clear, sharp and very influential presentation.

Presenting clearly and confidently is an important transferable skill and will help you to achieve success in your academic life and future career. This book will teach you the art of delivering great presentations, with advice on using your voice, body language and the latest online tools, platforms and software.

Uses diagrammatical illustrations and a systematical approach to business situations to provide essential reference for self-study and teaching.

Whether you're sweating over a last-minute speech or simply trying to sharpen your skills without investing a lot of time, Presentations provides expert tips you can immediately put to use. You'll get a brief overview of fundamentals like: Crafting your message; Preparing and rehearsing; Engaging your audience; Managing the Q&A

Part of the Smart Skills series, Presentations provides all you need to know to get the most out of presentations. The guide is a must for any employee, manager, freelancer or business owner.

Shows how to plan, organise and run a conference for any situation. This book offers advice on identifying the target audience; setting achievable conference objectives; selecting and briefing speakers; marketing the event; getting the logistics right; organising conference documentation; on-the-spot administration of the conference; and others.

What it takes to make your meetings productive, not painful. About the series: Get up to speed "fast" on essential business skills. Whether you're looking for a crash course or a brief refresher, you'll find just what you need in HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Advice you can quickly read and apply, from the most trusted source in business.

Speaking Your Mind: Oral Presentation and Seminar Skills is designed with the belief that the key to good speaking is an awareness of audience and context and knowledge of the techniques of argumentation or rhetoric.

A guide to becoming a successful speaker. It offers advice on how to: keep audiences engaged; prepare, plan and structure; use visual aids; inspire your listeners; present at work; make wedding and social speeches; and, understand body language.

Taking the fear out of giving presentations at university, learn how to develop public speaking skills, build your confidence and succeed with your assignments.