Welcome to Power Presentations
The premier location for presentation and communication skills coaching. Our unique and differentiated approach gives you the differential to succeed whenever and wherever you present your business, your ideas, yourself. Only Power Presentations gives you the integrated skills necessary to; tell your story, design your PowerPoint slides, present them with poise and confidence—naturally, and handle tough questions.
Workshops
Monday, April 5, 2010 is the date of our next public workshop. This workshop is a cost efficient one-day workshop combining the key elements of Jerry's international best seller Presenting to Win, and his latest release The Power Presenter. Please click below to learn more about our workshops, locations, and times.
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Recent Blog Entries (see all)
The Bootstrap CEO
February 5, 2010 by Jerry
In the previous post, you read about how musicians and athletes practice their art to the point of effortless grace; and that presenters, while not performers, must practice their presentations to the point delivering it with confidence and poise. The practice methodology to achieve that lofty state is Verbalization, the subject of prior blogs, as [...]
Read More...Presentation Advice from Musicians and Athletes
February 3, 2010 by Jerry
Three musicians and two athletes share a performance quality that any presenter would do well to emulate. The musicians are jazz pianist Art Tatum, violinist Jascha Heifetz, and dancer Fred Astaire; the two athletes are baseball great Joe DiMaggio and any good trapeze artist. All of them perform their specialties with supreme effortlessness or, in [...]
Read More...State of the Union
January 29, 2010 by Jerry
In anticipation of Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, a conservative website posted a table with 36 phrases they expected him to use. After the speech, we checked the transcript and tallied the results.
Clear evidence of the risk of forecasting.
Read More...Scott Brown Footnotes
January 27, 2010 by Jerry
As a footnote to Monday’s post about Scott Brown’s upset victory in the Massachusetts senate race and his now-famous statement, “With all due respect. It’s not the Kennedy seat, and it’s not the Democrat’s seat. It’s the People’s seat,” this week, the New York Times reported about an election campaign in Illinois, in which one [...]
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Free Book Summary
February 8, 2010 by Nichole
Visit getAbstract to download a free summary of The Power Presenter. You can download versions of this summary for Kindle, Sony Reader, BlackBerry, Palm, eBook Reader, pdf or listen to an audio verision.
getAbstract summarizes business books. Their mission is to provide executives worldwide with the best in business knowledge. They deliver this knowledge in concise summaries of [...]
The Power Presenter Workshop
January 20, 2010 by Nichole
We invite you to join us for our next Power Presenter workshop on Monday, April 15.Â
In this workshop the you will learn how to:
Tell a compelling story
Conquer the fear of speaking
Present with confidence, naturally
Speak with their body language
Create empathy with any audience
Each workshop participant has the opportunity to practice the skills in interactive exercises; several [...]
Read More...The Power Presenter in Chinese
January 14, 2010 by Nichole
We are pleased to announce that The Power Presenter: Style, and Strategy from America’s Top Speaking Coach will be published by China Renmin University Press in simplified Chinese.
Dr. Kai Fu Lee, former Preseident of Google Greater China and founder of Innovation Works, says it best,”This book, The Power Presenter, is an excellent exposition into what [...]
The Power Presenter in India
January 8, 2010 by Nichole
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The Power Presenter is expanding its reach. GetAbastract, the World’s Largest Library of more than 5,000 Business Book Summaries, has recommened The Power Presenter to the readers of Mint.
Mint is a national business newspaper published by HT Media in India. This one-of-its-kind newspaper has an exclusive agreement with the Wall Street Journal to publish Journal-branded news [...]