Workshops
Join us for our three-day Presenting to Win workshop, September 20-22, 2010. You will learn how to Develop Your Story, Deliver Your Message and Handle Tough Questions.
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Recent Blog Entries (see all)
Hiatus
August 16, 2010 by Nichole
Thank you for reading our blogs. Beginning today our blogs will be on hiatus. We are curently redesigning our website, and look forward to posting more blogs upon its launch.
Read More...“The Wow Factor”
August 11, 2010 by Pearl
In the article “Best Formula for Selling Yourself,” Frances Cole Jones, author of The Wow Factor: The 33 Things You Must (and Must Not) Do to Guarantee Your Edge in Today’s Business World highlighted three proven techniques to close a sale⎯whether to sell an idea, a product, or yourself as a candidate for a job.
The [...]
The Rhino
August 4, 2010 by Pearl
In a prior blog, you read about the analogy of an elephant to presentations. Now, let’s take a look at another similar example to illustrate the importance of integration in presentations.
In a recent Bayer’s commercial for women’s birth control pills, six blind-folded women described a rhino by touch. One woman said it was a pillar, [...]
Bookends II
July 28, 2010 by Jerry
Last Sunday, Frank Rich, the New York Times political columnist, provided another lesson in writing style for presenters; in fact, two lessons. In a previous blog, you read how Mr. Rich had used bookends, a figure of speech—a quote, a title, an incident, a person— that he referenced at the beginning and then again at [...]
Read More...In The News (see all)
Notre Dame ESTEEM Program Visits Silicon Valley
April 28, 2010 by Nichole
Jerry Weissman spoke at the University of Notre Dame’s first ever ESTEEM/Silicon Valley event on Thursday, April 22.
The ESTEEM Program (Engineering, Science, Technology Entreprenuership Excellence Master’s) is a one-year Masters of Science Program. It has been developed as a joint program of the College of Science, College of Engineering and Mendoza College of Business. The objective is [...]
New Release
April 14, 2010 by Nichole
We are proud to announce the new release of the Japanese version of The Power Presenter, published by WAVE Publishing.
Read More...Free Speech
February 12, 2010 by Nichole
Readers of our blogs know that our subject matter is intentionally apolitical so as to remain objective in our commentary on our areas of specialization, presentations and communication. We will depart from that policy today to offer an opinion about a related subject: Freedom of speech as it is affected by the recent Supreme Court [...]
Read More...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 [...]