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Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story
- By Jerry Weissman
- Published Mar 3, 2003 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2003
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- Pages: 304
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-046413-9
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-046413-2
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Jerry Weissman, the world's #1 corporate presentations consultant, is known worldwide for his confidential executive coaching sessions. Weissman's private client list reads like a Who's Who of the world's great companies, including the top brass at Yahoo!, eBay, Intel, Intuit, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and many others. Weissman's techniques have helped nearly 400 client firms hone persuasive IPO road show presentations that have raised hundreds of billions of dollars in the stock market; and have helped hundreds of other public and pre-public firms develop and deliver crucial business presentations.
In Presenting to Win: Persuading Your Audience Every Time, the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences--and move them to action. Jerry Weissman shows presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all--and learn to tell compelling stories that focus on what's in it for their listeners. Drawing on dozens of practical examples and real case studies, Weissman shows presenters how to identify their real goals and messages before they even open PowerPoint; how to stay focused on what their listeners really care about; and how to capture their audiences in the first crucial 90 seconds. From bullets and graphics to the effective, sparing use of special effects, Weissman covers all the practical mechanics of effective presentation--and walks readers through every step of building a Power Presentation, from brainstorming through delivery. Unlike the techniques in other presentation books, this book's easy, step-by-step approach has been proven with billions of dollars on the line, in hundreds of IPO road shows before the world's most jaded investors.
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80 of 81 people found the following review helpful
The real story in presenting, By
This review is from: Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story (Hardcover)
I teach courses in business writing, including lessons on presentations. When students ask for good books to continue learning, this is the book I recommend for presentations. I also suggest that it will help them with all of their communications at work. The ideas in the book are simple yet powerful. For example, the most important communications we do at work is convincing others, and a powerful way to do that is to tell them a story. It is fundamental human nature that storytelling awakens, relaxes, and engages those who are listening.Unfortunately, the editing and packaging of the book are not as well done as is the presentation of the main ideas. The author has had one audience for years: entrepreneurs who are trying to convince bankers to back their IPOs. The publisher tried to take his ideas and make them applicable and accessible to all business people everywhere. They did not quite succeed, for a variety of reasons. The text uses vocabulary and figures of speech that... Read more
62 of 64 people found the following review helpful
Certain to Become a "Classic", By
This review is from: Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story (Hardcover)
It would be a mistake to assume that the benefits of this book will be of greatest value only to those who make formal presentations. On the contrary, as Weissman explains so thoroughly and eloquently, each one of us every day is almost constantly telling a "story" in one form or another to achieve one or more of these objectives: to explain with information (exposition)...or to make vidid with compelling details (description)...or to explain a process or sequence with information (narration)...or to convince with logic and/or evidence (argumentation). The most effective formal presentations are those which make maximum use of all four levels of discourse. It is also worth mentioning that, although percentages vary from one research study to another, the impact of a face-to-face encounter is estimated to be as follows: body language 60-70%, tone of voice 15-20%, and content (i.e. what is actually said) about 10-15%. Skilled recruiters claim that more often than not, they have already...
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
The Bible on Presentations: nothing less, By
This review is from: Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story (Hardcover)
Jerry Weissman is a blessing to the corporate world. If you read his books (this one and "In the Line of Fire") and apply his advice, there is simply no reason why you cannot become a successful presenter and public speaker. In "Presenting to Win" he is incredibly thorough in explaining, chapter by chapter, everything from putting together your story in a way that will save your public the need to think and addressing the needs they truly have (working at the strategic level), to crafting a presentation that supports you as the presenter and allows you to be the focus of the attention from your audience (at the tactical level).This is not a book for those who want a quick fix, since it requires some "processing time" to take in all the knowledge Mr. Weissman has to share throughout its 200+ pages. But the payoff is huge for those who go through it diligently and begin to adapt their presentations with this new knowledge in mind. Definitely, the Bible on presentations:... Read more |
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Table of Contents
Preface: What's Past Is Prologue.
Introduction: The Wizard of Aaaahs.
The Mission-Critical Presentation.
The Art of Telling Your Story.
A New Approach to Presentations.
The Psychological Sell.
Company Examples: Cisco Systems.
Microsoft.
1. You and Your Audience.
2. The Power of the WIIFY.
3. Getting Creative: The Expansive Art of Brainstorming.
4. Finding Your Flow.
5. Capturing Your Audience Immediately.
6. Communicating Visually.
7. Making the Text Talk.
8. Making the Numbers Sing.
9. Using Graphics to Help Your Story Flow.
10. Bringing Your Story to Life.
11. Customizing Your Presentation.
12. Pitching in the Majors.
Appendix A. Tools of the Trade.
Appendix B. Presentation Checklist.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
Preface
What's Past Is Prologue
My first experience with the power of the spoken word came on December 8, 1941, when as a child, I joined my father and mother at the family Philco radio to hear President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, deliver his stirring Day of Infamy speech. I'll never forget how he concluded, his rich voice reverberating: "With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounded determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God." In that exhilarating moment, Roosevelt's potent words pierced through our dismay, lifted our spirits, and restored our confidence in our nation and in our future.
Later, I learned more about the ability of words to move people's minds in my graduate classes in the Speech and Drama Department at Stanford University, where I studied the works of the great Greek orators. Still later, in my work as a news and public affairs producer for CBS Television in New York, I witnessed the momentous impact of the words of great national leaders, from John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King, Jr.
But I never fully realized the universal significance of communication until I left the broadcast medium and entered the world of business. The medium of choice in business is the presentation, and I soon discovered the force it can exert: A poor presentation can kill a deal, while a powerful one can make it soar. Early in my business career, I was privileged to work on the Initial Public Offering presentation, known as an IPO road show, for Cisco Systems, and saw, on its first day of trading after the road show, Cisco's valuation increase by over 40 million dollars.
The big Aha!for me was the realization that every communication is an IPO. Everyone communicates every day. You do. I do. Every time we do, we can either fail or succeed. My job is to help you succeed in your everyday communications, just as I helped the Cisco IPO, and as I've helped hundreds of corporations like Microsoft and Intel, and thousands of clients who are executives or managers or salespeople just like you. My job is to help you persuade every audience, every time.
The very same principles that propelled Cisco's success reach all the way back to the classical concepts of Aristotle. Those same basics underlie Abraham Lincoln's towering rhetoric that healed a nation torn asunder by civil war. They underlie Sir Winston Churchill's inspiring orations and Franklin Roosevelt's assuring fireside chats that rallied their nations to the victorious defense of the free world. And they underlie Martin Luther King's rousing speeches that spearheaded the civil rights movement.
They also underlie your sales pitch, your presentation to a potential new customer, your bid for financing, your requisition for more resources, your petition for a promotion, your appeal for a raise, your call to action, your own quest for the big Aha!
They are the principles that will empower you to present to win.
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