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)
“Ya’ either got it, or ya’ ain’t”
March 10, 2010 by Jerry
One of the most commonly held misconceptions about public speaking is that good speakers are born that way. Meaning, in the lyrics of a song from the classic Stephen Sondheim musical, Gypsy, that “Ya’ either got it, or ya’ ain’t.” If any speaker were to accept this false belief, he or she would never be [...]
Read More...Limited Hiatus
March 8, 2010 by Nichole
It appears that our website redesign will take longer than we anticipated. As a result, we will resume blogging at a reduced schedule beginning Wednesday, and at least once a week thereafter.
We welcome your comments and suggestions
Death by PowerPoint
March 5, 2010 by Pearl
This Dilbert cartoon has been making the rounds on all the presentation blogs, so here it is for our readers. The reason for its popularity is, sadly, it is so true.
Read More...You Are What You Eat
February 26, 2010 by Jerry
“You are what you eat,” a phrase that has become commonplace in today’s lexicon, actually came into being in the 19th Century. In 1825, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a French lawyer, magistrate, and politician, published The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, in which he wrote, “Tell me what you eat, and I will [...]
Read More...In The News (see all)
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 [...]
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 [...]