Resonate
Nancy Duarte (omg, The Better Presenter adores her!)

Amazon.com Book Description:
Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they’ve wasted their time? All too often, presentations don’t resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action.

Just as the author’s first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author’s approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you’ll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact.

Slide;ology
Nancy Duarte

Amazon.com Book Description:
No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, the odds are high that you’ve delivered a high-stakes presentation to your peers, your boss, your customers, or the general public. Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually on an almost daily basis. But unlike verbal skills, effective visual expression is not easy, natural, or actively taught in schools or business training programs. Slide:ology fills that void.

HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations
Nancy Duarte

Amazon.com Book Description:
We all wish we could sharpen key management skills—like writing more effective emails or proposals, focusing to-do lists on what really matters, giving more persuasive presentations, or dealing with a boss who makes you want to scream. But who has the time? The HBR Guides can help.

Packed with concise, practical tips from leading experts—and examples that make them easy to apply—the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges. Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from the most trusted brand in business. Coming fall 2012.

Presentation Zen
Garr Reynolds

Amazon.com Book Description:
Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making “slide presentations” in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

Presentation Zen Design
Garr Reynolds

Amazon.com Book Description:
In his internationally acclaimed, best-selling book Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, presentation master Garr Reynolds gave readers the framework for planning, putting together, and delivering successful presentations. Now, he takes us further into the design realm and shows how we can apply time-honored design principles to presentation layouts.

Throughout Presentation Zen Design, Garr shares his lessons on designing effective presentations that contain text, graphs, color, images, and video. After establishing guidelines for each of the various elements, he explains how to achieve an overall harmony and balance using the tenets of Zen simplicity. Not only will you discover how to design your slides for more professional-looking presentations, you’ll learn to communicate more clearly and will accomplish the goal of making a stronger, more lasting connection with your audience.

The Naked Presenter
Garr Reynolds

Amazon.com Book Description:
When we learn to present naked, we reach our audiences by communicating the essence of the message, stripping away all that is unnecessary and embracing the ideas of simplicity, clarity, honesty, integrity, and passion. If “slideware” is used, the slides never steal the show or rise above serving a strong but simple supportive role. The ideas in the presentation may or may not be radical, earth shattering, or new, but there is freshness to the approach and content that makes a lasting impression.

In this invaluable resource from the author for the best-selling books Presentation Zen and Presentation Zen Design, you will discover how to get to the core of your message and deliver presentations that are as natural as they are memorable.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
Carmine Gallo

Amazon.com Book Description:
“The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide to design your own passionate interfaces with your audiences.”
—Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience

The Non-Designer’s Presentation Book
Robin Williams

Amazon.com Book Description:
Enter Robin Williams, the beloved, best-selling non-designer’s designer (with over 850,000 copies of The Non-Designer’s Design Book in print!) who has taught an entire generation the basics of design and typography.
In The Non-Designer’s Presentation Book, Robin expands upon the design principles introduced in her award-winning Non-Designer’s series. She explains four fundamental principles of good design as applied to digital presentations, and adds four more principles specific to clear communication with slides.

Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck
Rick Altman

Amazon.com Book Description:
THIRD EDITION: Did you learn PowerPoint in 30 minutes? Join the crowd…most people get no more than a half-hour of training time with PowerPoint before they are tasked with making what is likely to be a first impression of themselves or their company. This book is for earnest presenters and presentation designers who want to escape the perils that entrap so many who turn to PowerPoint for their presentations.

Confident Public Speaking (Audio CD)
Susan Leahy

Amazon.com Book Description:
Do you, like most people, hate the idea of public speaking? Would you like to be more confident when you speak? Well now you can! In just minutes this dynamic and fun audio course will fuel your confidence and arm you with proven techniques to drive more effective speeches and presentations. This program is perfect for managers, sales professionals, students and anyone who wants speak more confidently and get more out of life.

Public Speaking for Success
Dale Carnegie

Amazon.com Book Description:
While up-to-date in its language and points of reference, Public Speaking for Success preserves the full range of ideas and methods that appeared in the original: including Carnegie’s complete speech and diction exercises, which follow each chapter, as the author originally designated them. This edition restores Carnegie’s original appendix of the three complete self-help classics: Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell, As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, and A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard. Carnegie included these essays in his original edition because, although they do not directly relate to public speaking, he felt they would be of great value to the readers. Here is the definitive update of the best-loved public-speaking book of all time.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Public Speaking
Laurie Rozakis

Amazon.com Book Description:
You’re no idiot, of course. You can hold your own in water cooler conversation, are the life of the party at get togethers, and have no problen firing a quick comeback at your smart-alecky friends. But when it comes to standing onstage in front of a group of people, you feel like you’re the one in your underwear–not the audience. Don’t hide behind the lectern just yet! The Complet Idiot’s Guide to Public Speaking, Second Edition helps you feel confident and build the skills you need to deliver winning speeches and presentations.

Getting Over Stage Fright
Janet Esposito

Amazon.com Book Description:
Best-selling Author Janet Esposito brings more than a decade of experience helping people learn to speak and perform with calm and confidence. In Getting Over Stage Fright, Janet offers a new, holistic approach to this age-old problem, sharing a wide array of principles and practices to help you create the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being you need to get beyond your speaking or performing fear. This book is especially helpful to those who have moderate to high levels of performance anxiety, though it can also help those who have a milder case of the jitters. It will help you in all types of speaking or performing situations, ranging from
the most casual to the most formal. It will also help you reduce and better manage any anticipatory anxiety you have before stepping up to speak or perform.

Money Talks
Alan Weiss

Amazon.com Book Description:
Alan Weiss used to give speeches for free. Now his income from professional speaking and its spinoffs totals more than $1,000,000. In Money Talks, he shows you how to follow him up the steps to the very best – and best – paid-platforms! It’s simpler than you think. Through stories, anecdotes, and pointers from his own experience, internationally-known speaker Alan Weiss shows you how you can succeed in today’s booming market for public speakers. You’ll learn how to choose a topic that people will pay to hear; find audiences that will pay you to speak; deal with a crowd that knows more than you do; turn your expertise as a trainer, workshop leader, or consultant into a professional speaking career.

How to Talk to Anyone
Leil Lowndes

Amazon.com Book Description:
How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner’s Way (see the 5-star reviews of the latter) is based on solid research about techniques that work!

Speak Easy
Barry Gibbons

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Public speaking is something that many people struggle with and yet these days not only do lots of people want to be able to speak better in front of an audience, often their careers depend on it. In Speak easy, Fortune magazine’s ”Turnaround Champ” Barry Gibbons, draws on his vast experience of speaking in public to help you make your dread of delivering speeches a thing of the past. Who knows, you might even start to enjoy it! Barry is the first one to admit that he’s made a mistake or two along the way but these have helped him develop some brilliant ideas to avoid falling into the same trap twice.

Taking Center Stage
Deb Grottesman

Amazon.com Book Description:
From Broadway to the boardroom, the fine art of persuasion is a valuable tool of life-and it can be learned. All it takes is a little practice, a lot of determination, and a few techniques used by people who make a living speaking publicly-actors. With amazing insights from professional presenters, Taking Center Stage gives you expert advice on pulling off a crowd-pleasing, award-worthy performance. It’s packed with revealing anecdotes, insider tips, and provocative, inspiring exercises that will help you make your presentations and speeches more effective-and a lot less nerve-wracking.

The Complete Guide to Public Speaking
Jeff Davidson

Amazon.com Book Description:
The ability to powerfully and persuasively impact audiences is an important part of your career and your life. This book offers a bold, comprehensive compendium of what it takes to succeed as a public speaker. Six major topic areas include identifying and developing a dynamite speaking topic; enlivening your presentations with humor, movement, and stories; positioning and marketing your speech; winning and negotiating speaker
contracts; building groundwork activities leading up to the performance; and inspiring audiences.

Advanced Presentations By Design
Andrew Abela

Amazon.com Book Description:
Advanced Presentations by Design overturns much of the conventional wisdom and practice for creating presentations. Based on over 200 research studies from the fields of communication, marketing, psychology, multimedia, and law, it provides fact-based answers to critical questions about presentation design, including how to adapt your presentation to different audience personality preferences, what role your data should play and how much of it you need, how to turn your data into a story, and how to design persuasive yet comprehensible visual layouts.

New Sales Speak
Terri L. Sjodin

Amazon.com Book Description:
“New Sales Speak is the first book on the vital marriage of persuasive selling techniques and crucial speaking skills.”
-Harvey Mackay, author of the New York Times bestseller Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
“An incredible book on sales effectiveness! You can learn how to release your brakes and step on your accelerator toward higher sales.”
-Brian Tracy, Brian Tracy International

PowerPoint Presentations That Sell
Adam B. Cooper

Amazon.com Book Description:
It’s time to rethink your approach to PowerPoint® presentations. Rather than oversee data-filled information sessions, you need to tell a compelling story that holds your audience’s attention while selling your ideas.

PowerPoint® Presentations That Sell helps business professionals efficiently structure presentations that address audience needs, while providing the necessary tools to create slide elements.

Presentation Skills 201
William R. Steele

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Presentation Skills 201 is for the good presenter who is determined to get even better. Containing over 70 pieces of detailed advice for higher performance, Presentation Skills 201 can be read from cover-to-cover or used as a reference guide. It includes valuable, easy-to-implement tips for every facet of the presentation process from planning to delivery. Readers will learn how to increase both the impact and memorability of their presentations. Included with the tips are scores of real-life examples and stories from the author’s over 16 years of helping highly-accomplished presenters find that one more thing that they can do to take it up notch
and build their careers by making strong, positive impressions on their presentation audiences.

Strategic Sales Presentations
Jack Malcolm

Amazon.com Book Description:
When your big moment comes, will you be ready? Strategic sales presentations, those given to high level decision makers at the crucial time in the sales process, are the most highly leveraged activities in sales—and those that most sales professionals are least prepared for. Strategic Sales Presentations prepares you for the presentations that could make or break you as an accomplished sales professional. And it will help polish your skills for any presentation that matters. You will see the concepts in action as Jack Malcolm expertly weaves an example of a strategic sales presentation throughout the book. Implement the ideas from this book and you will be able to create a clear, concise, compelling presentation that you will be able to confidently present to executives.

Strategic Storytelling: How to Create Persuasive Business Presentations
Dave McKinsy

Amazon.com Book Description:
“Strategic Storytelling” is a complete guide to creating persuasive business presentations.
Based on intensive study of presentations developed by leading management consulting firms, this step-by-step playbook shows you how to craft stories using proven narrative frameworks, design data-driven slides, and master your verbal and non-verbal delivery.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
Carmine Gallo

Amazon.com Book Description:
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s wildly popular presentations have set a new global gold standard—and now this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to use his crowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs is as close as you'll ever get to having the master presenter himself speak directly in your ear. Communications expert Carmine Gallo has studied and analyzed the very best of Jobs's performances, offering point-by-point examples, tried-and-true techniques, and proven presentation secrets in 18 "scenes,"

The Compelling Communicator: Mastering the Art and Science of Exceptional Presentation Design
Tim Pollard

Amazon.com Book Description:
You attend numerous presentations and meetings a year—filled with the typical dense and disorganized PowerPoint decks—and leave most of them thinking, “Well, that’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back.” But out of this sea of mediocrity, a rare few rise up, captivating you and driving you to action. What makes these few so special?

Ice Breakers! How To Get Any Prospect To Beg You For A Presentation
Tom "Big Al" Schreiter

Amazon.com Book Description:
You can turn any warm or cold prospect into a hot prospect, wanting to know all about your business. How?

By learning how to effectively introduce your business into a social conversation with an easy, rejection-free sequence of just a few words. Prospects want what you have to offer, but they are afraid of someone selling them. However, prospects love to buy and join. So why not use socially acceptable word sequences that compel any prospect to literally beg you for a presentation?

Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life
Michael Port

Amazon.com Book Description:
In Steal the Show, New York Times best-selling author, top-rated corporate speaker, and former professional actor Michael Port teaches you how to make the most of your own moments in the spotlight. He makes it easy to give your presentations a clear focus, engage your listeners, manage your nerves, play the right role in every situation to give your message maximum impact, and much more. Drawing on his MFA training at the prestigious Graduate Acting Program at New York University, Port has engineered a system that the non-actor can use to ensure his or her voice is heard when it matters most.