Excellence in Business Communication, 13th Edition
Chapter 14. Developing and Delivering Business Presentations
Follow these steps distilled from Duarte’s decades of experience crafting presentations for major corporations.
"If you love infographics, you're hardly alone.
"You only have few seconds to capture their attention before your message gets drowned in the sea of updates.
"Whether you are a manager explaining new programs to your employees, a chief financial officer giving a financial update to the media, or a vice president speaking in front of your board of directors, following these 10 suggestions will help you achieve presentation success: .
"Data never sleeps.
"What's surprising is how few of us rehearse the way we will move on stage during presentations.
Kim Lachance Shandrow speaks with Simon Sinek, one of the most popular TED presenters.
"Some studies say you've only got 15 seconds to grab an audience's attention, while others say it's closer to a minute," writes Richard Feloni of BusinessInsider.
“The obligation to be understood is from the one who speaks or writes, not from the one who hears or reads.
"Over the years SOAP has helped clients to create and deliver thousands of presentations in a lot of countries and in more markets and areas than we can count.
The editors at SOAP (State of the Art Presentations) report on the topic.
Corey Eridon (photo, left) examines the data on the topic and provides the introduction to the infographic.
Take a look at the infographic on the topic at eLearningInfoGraphics.
"How long should my tweet be?
"Learn the proper business etiquette for using mobile devices.
"When we speak, we have about 60 seconds to capture our audience's attention, establish credibility, orient them to our topic, and motivate them to listen, says Darlene Price, president of Well Said, Inc.
From the folks at Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.
Fergal Glynn posts his list.
"Learn how to write for mobile devices.
Click on the image or on the link below to see the infographic.
Take a look at this infographic produced by TopManagementCareers.
"Giving a presentation is very similar to public speaking.
Emmie Martin of BusinessInsider.
"There are so many interesting facts and numbers in the world of presentations, this infographic could be 5 times the size.
According to Matt Johnston, "We're always negotiating both at work and at home.