Backstage Pass for Trainers, Facilitators, and Public Speakers
Your Guide to Successful Presentations
- Susan J. Jones - Educational consultant, St. Augustine, FL
This little book is a do-it-yourself speaking coach, mentor, and image consultant rolled into one!
Confident and effective communication is a skill every public speaker craves and every exceptional speaker continually hones. Effective presentations require preparation, savvy performance, and sound communication to win audience approval and "buy-in." Inside Backstage Pass for Presenters, Trainers, and Public Speakers you will find strategies to help you do just that, including:
- Designing audience handouts and seating the audience
- Maintaining group energy and timing group work
- Working with angry and challenging audiences
- Structuring breaks for more active audience participation
- Quality closers that highlight session gains
- Self-evaluation assessments that include feedback from colleagues
- Lists of Q&A's and Do's and Don'ts
This practical yet humorous handbook demonstrates how to get your point across and win your audience-by zeroing in on the keys to successful communication, whether your goal is to bring a change in ideas, attitude, or performance from your audience.
“A wonderful contribution to the presentation field. As a presenter for 15 years, I have purchased, read, or perused many books on presentations. This is the most useful and captivating book I have read thus far. . . . I love the dollops of research integrated into the manuscript. Since brain research is my area, I am happy that others will see how it relates. The author makes important connections between preparation, presentation, and prudence. This Backstage Pass can make the difference between an acceptable presentation and an outstanding one!”
“The warm, friendly, conversational tone makes it feel like the author is right there with you, cheering you on as you put her tried and true suggestions to work. . . . Her suggestions resonate with my own professional experience. I found myself laughing, agreeing, and shouting ‘yes!’ (even though there was no one in the room to hear me). . . .I plan to re-read this book periodically to remind myself of this powerful advice and apply it to my own presentations.”