Excellence in Business Communication, 10th Edition
Chapter 14. Designing and Delivering Oral and Online Presentations
"There are many different reasons why you might want to influence people.
"Many students of English have the feeling that they’ve learned pretty much all the grammar they need.
"In today’s lesson, we’re going to continue our look at the 10 key characteristics of the successful business leader.
"For today’s lesson, we’re going to take a look at 10 key skills or characteristics that every successful business leader needs.
"Get more done by understanding which of your tasks depend on which others, and sequence them to take the least amount of time.
"I sat down recently to chat with Jennifer K.
"Do your brainstorming sessions create a drizzle or a flood of ideas?
Everyone experiences the world through unconscious biases of perceptual filters, and too often people are unaware that they are doing so.
"When you’re in an interview, everything is focused on you – your education, your skills, and the qualities that make you the best candidate for the job.
"Inside the world of professional coaching.
"In this podcast, Coach Kelly Forrister focuses on the best practices of email communications with others, including appropriate use, writing effective subject lines, creating agreed upon response times, reply to all and more.
"Emotions and work are a weird thing.
"Listen to a fascinating segment with David Allen where he outlines the sources of procrastination, shares a few fun examples of the dynamics at work, and talks about the steps you can take to overcome it.
"When the pressure is on, why do we sometimes fail to live up to our potential?
"No matter how much we try to work with others and get along, the time comes when we can’t agree.
"Many of us have had to battle the specter of arrogance at one time or another.
"Here are the top 9 visual communication mistakes that make you look stupid in your presentation .
These brief podcasts focus on marketing applications of social media.
"Author Vanessa Edwards and her team watched thousands of hours of TED Talks and noticed something surprising: The least popular TED Talkers used an average of 272 hand gestures during their 18-minute presentations, while the most popular used an average of 465 hand gestures in the same amount of time.
"Speak from the heart (and not a script) in order to engage your audience.
"This kind of discussion is all about degrees of certainty.
"This kind of discussion is all about degrees of certainty.
"We all want to be more productive, but we’re drowning in a sea of productivity apps and hacks.
"If you're planning to wrap up your presentation with a half-hearted call for "any questions?
"In The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption, Farai Chideya [photo, left], an award-winning author, journalist and professor, reports on today’s challenging job landscape and offers tools for navigating the inevitable changes.