Presentation Skills For Managers 2e

Proven Techniques for Designing and Delivering a Powerful Presentation Every Time Great presentations have the power to impact people, boost careers, and generate interest in both the speaker and the topic. Presentation Skills for Managers, Second Edition equips you with the tools and confidence needs to create compelling, persuasive presentations. This fully revised edition of the popular guide shows you how to utilize both modern technology and time-tested methods to engage any audience. Drawing from her unique background in both the business and acting worlds, author Kerri Garbis explains how to best engage audiences and present prepared content. You’ll learn how to address groups of all sizes in any setting. Presentation Skills for Managers, Second Edition provides brand new insights on: • Planning and rehearsing your presentation • Using storytelling to engage your audience • Using acting techniques to deliver a memorable presentation • Knowing what your audience needs and giving it to them • Managing Q&A to deliver effective responses The tips and techniques in this book will guide you in how to make your presentation one that always leaves a lasting and positive impression on your audience. Briefcase Books, written specifically for today's busy manager, feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step-by-step through everyday workplace situations. Look for these innovative design features to help you navigate through each page: • Clear, concise definitions of presentation terms and jargon • Tips for being smart when planning and delivering your presentation • How-to hints of the pros for smooth, successful presentations • Practical advice to avoid mistakes during the entire process • Warning signs for where things could go wrong • Actual examples of principles and practices described in the book • Specific procedures and techniques for creating a great presentation

This book Business Communication: Essential Strategies for Twenty-first Century Managers brings together application-based knowledge and necessary workforce competencies in the field of communication. The second edition utilizes well-researched content and application-based pedagogical tools to present to the readers a thorough analysis on how communication skills can become a strategic asset to build a successful managerial career. With the second edition, Teaching Resource Material in the form of a Companion Website is also being provided. This book must be read by students of MBA, practicing managers, executives, corporate trainers and professors. KEY FEATURES • Learning Objectives: They appear at the beginning of each chapter and enumerate the topics/concepts that the readers would gain an insight into after reading the chapter • Marginalia: These are spread across the body of each chapter to clarify and highlight the key points • Case Study 1: It sets the stage for the areas to be discussed in the concerned chapter • Case Study 2: It presents real-world scenarios and challenges to help students learn through the case analysis method • Tech World: It throws light on the latest advancements in communication technology and how real-time business houses are leveraging them to stay ahead of their competitors • Communication Snippet: It talks about real organizations/people at workplaces, their on-job communication challenges and their use of multiple communication channels to gain a competitive edge • Summary: It helps recapitulate the different topics discussed in the chapter • Review and Discussion Questions: These help readers assess their understanding of the different topics discussed in the chapter • Applying Ethics: These deal with situation-based ethical dilemmas faced by real managers in their professional lives • Simulation-based Exercise: It is a roleplay management game that helps readers simulate real managers or workplace situations, and thereby enables students to apply the theoretical concepts • Experiential Learning: It provides two caselets, each followed by an Individual Activity and a Team Activity, based on real-time business processes that help readers ‘feel’ or ‘experience’ the concepts and theories they learn in the concerned chapter to gain hands-on experience • References: These are given at the end of each chapter for the concepts and theories discussed in the chapter

The ability to communicate is one of the most important attributes needed to conduct business. Alan Barker's jargon-free guide shows how to get the message across every time, verbally and visually.

A good presentation involves effective communication and is essential for business success. This guide addresses the common problems people face--overcoming nerves, handling visual aids, and shaping the presentation itself.

Business Communication is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook designed to meet the requirements of students of commerce, management and other professionals courses.It serves both as a learner's text and a practitioner's guide.The book provides a sharp focus on all relevant concepts and cardinal principles of business communication and adds value to the reader's understanding of the subject.Following a simple, need-based and sequential approach, the book is relevant, highly stimulating and readable.It makes learning exciting and prepares the reader to face real-life situations with confidence and understanding.

Human Resource Management, 2e, presents multifaceted, up-to-date and all-inclusive information which will be useful to students and professionals pursuing human resource management (HRM). Going beyond the coverage of a traditional textbook, this book focuses on applied aspects of HRM, which capture the evolving challenges in the field. Application approach is followed to enrich them with as many examples as possible from not only India but from the world over, making the topics more meaningful.

This book has been crafted for both the project management novice who is ready to confront their first real project, through to the seasoned veteran with several project battle campaigns under their belt. This book is based on many years of “real-world” System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) project management, as well as the Project Management Body Of Knowledge (PMBOK®), the blending of the useful elements from other management practices & principles, and the incorporation of the past experiences & the lessons learnt from the various industrial backgrounds of those persons who graciously contributed to this book’s creation. Described within is the practical application of field-tested project management techniques to actual situations and prevailing circumstances where the realities of commercial necessities have to be given serious consideration. Additionally, this book does cover some topics and ugly truths that are often not acknowledged in academic textbooks on project management. Contains over 100 explanatory diagrams, real example cases, candid comments from project / program managers, and over 100 cartoons to emphasize the key points.

Learn and practice invaluable presentation techniques with this fully rewritten go-to guide McGraw-Hill’s successful Briefcase Books Series is filled with strategies and advice to help you become a more capable, efficient, and effective manager and a valuable member of any organization. Featuring eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide you step-by-step through everyday workplace situations, these books are a go-to resource to help you brush up on your practical skills, and to learn new ones. Presentation Skills for Managers, 2nd edition, is a fully rewritten edition of this essential skill-builder, specifically crafted for today's busy manager looking to create compelling, persuasive presentations, utilizing both modern technology and time-tested methods to engage any audience. Using her unique background in both the business and acting worlds, author Kerri Garbis will provide you with brand new insights on: Effective performance Storytelling for audience engagement Acting techniques that help you create content Audience analysis criteria Overcoming common presentation obstacles