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

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 [...]

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. 
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 [...]

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 

 

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 [...]

Off to Egypt with Ideavelopers

December 18, 2009 by Nichole 

Jerry frequently travels abroad for speaking engagements and coaching sessions. His most recent trip was to Cairo for Ideavelopers.  Ideavelopers is an Egytptian integrated finance venture developement and incubation firm that partners with technology entreprenuers to greatly increase their odds of success.
On the Ideavelopers website, you will find links to a wealth of online resources that range from [...]

Wave to Publish The Power Presenter in Japanese

December 10, 2009 by Nichole 

Wave Publishers has purchased the rights to translate and distribute Jerry Weissman’s The Power Presenter in Japan. 

The book’s Chapter 10, “What Every Speaker Can Learn from Barack Obama,” was of particular interest to the publisher because of the popularity in Japan of President Obama’s public speaking skills.  Since Obama took office,  there have been many [...]

Hiatus

November 18, 2009 by Nichole 

The Power Presentations blog began a hiatus on Monday, November 15. We will resume on Monday, November 30 with a new article, All the Bells and Whistles: Human Touch versus Technology Touch. Subsequent titles of articles to come are:
The Elephant
The Whole of the Presentation Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts
Human Interest [...]

Pecha Kucha Night

September 11, 2009 by Nichole 

Pecha Kucha, is the Japanese term for the sound of conversation, or chit-chat, usually pronounced “pe-chak-cha”. In 2003, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture established Pecha Kucha Night as a place for young designers to meet, network, and present their work in public.
Pecha Kucha follows a simple concept. Each presenter [...]