Whether writing a best man€™s speech or putting together a presentation at work, everyone from any walk of life can pick up quick tips for speech-making from this easy-to-follow, invaluable guide to becoming a successful speaker.

Speech-Making and Presentation Made Easy: Seven Essential Steps to Success

Atkinson, Max

Self-Help

Vermilion

Lend Me Your Ears: All you need to know about making speeches and presentations

We're not sure what the expected outcome was when PowerPoint first emerged as the industry standard model of presentation, but reality has shown few positive results. Research reveals that there is much about this format that audiences positively dislike, and that the old school rules of classical rhetoric are still as effective as they ever were for maximizing impact. Renowned communications researcher, consultant, and speech coach Max Atkinson presents these findings and more in a groundbreaking and refreshing approach that highlights the secrets of successful communication, and shows how anyone can put these into practice and become an effective speaker or presenter.

Lend Me Your Ears: All You Need to Know about Making Speeches and Presentations

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

The room darkens and grows hushed, all eyes to the front as the screen comes to life. Eagerly the audience starts to thumb the pages of their handouts, following along breathlessly as the slides go by one after the other. . . We're not sure what the expected outcome was when Power Point first emerged as the industry standard model of presentation, but reality has shown few positive results. Research reveals that there is much about this format that audiences positively dislike, and that the old school rules of classical rhetoric are still as effective as they ever were for maximizing impact. Renowned communications researcher, consultant, and speech coach Max Atkinson presents these findings and more in a groundbreaking and refreshing approach that highlights the secrets of successful communication, and shows how anyone can put these into practice and become an effective speaker or presenter Topics Include: · How to win and hold the attention of audiences; · Using visual aids and PowerPoint more effectively;· Getting your message across and winning applause;· Inspiring audiences;· How to prepare quickly;· Fact and fiction about body language and non-verbal communication.

Our Masters' Voices

First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Our Masters' Voices: The Language and Body-language of Politics

Atkinson, M.

Routledge

Our Masters' Voices: The Language and Body Language of Politics

Business & Money

There are countless books on presentation skills full of technique and systems on how to create and deliver the perfect presentation. Indeed Max Atkinson is the author of one of the best of those very books. This is something slightly different. Here, Max focuses his expertise on looking deeper into the recent worlds of presentations and speech making. This book is a more personal, slightly more irreverent look at the craft of communication and those that do it; be they in politics, in the media or on platforms elsewhere from around the world. Based on his popular blog, Max takes us on a whistle stop tour of his observations from the past seven years. "There was scarcely a single major speech, in my eleven years as leader of the Liberal Democrats, that I made without benefiting from Max's personal advice and help." - Paddy Ashdown Max Atkinson was a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and previously taught at the universities of Essex, Lancaster and Manchester. He was also a visiting professor at the Henley Management College and various universities in Europe and the USA, after which he formed a consultancy specialising in public speaking and presentation skills. In 1985, he ran a seminar on speech writing in the Reagan White House. www.speaking.co.uk maxatkinson.blogspot.co.uk

Seen & Heard: Conversations and commentary on contemporary communication in politics,in the media and from around the world

Skills

Sunmakers

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