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Virginia Jacko's extraordinary odyssey begins at Purdue University, where she is diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa while serving as a highly successful senior financial executive. As the darkness grew around her, she realized that she would slowly, but surely, go completely blind. Refusing to retreat to bemoan her fate, Virginia starts over as a vocational rehabilitation client at the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen with unreadable faces staring back in silence. This book will help you improve the quality of your remote meetings.

In The Art of Presentation, the second book of the new Jim Stovall and Dr. Ray Hull Your Ultimate Guide series for personal development and business success, the authors use their decades of combined experience, research, and natural abilities to powerfully illustrate the specifics of effective public speaking.

Meetings are necessary for how businesses drive performance up. It is essential now more than ever that your meeting or presentation is memorable. How do you capture the attention of your audience? You use icebreakers! In Icebreakers that Build Engaged Teams and Set the Tone for Your Audience, you'll find everything you need to know to conquer lack of participation and improve communication.

Your office is a place full of interactions and communication, whether it’s in a one-on-one meeting with a boss or employee, chatting about a project with a coworker, or pitching your ideas to the whole team. Whether you call it people skills or presentation skills, the ability to communicate with the people around you is crucial in the workplace and one that can be improved with these simple steps in Running Presentations & Meetings!

Too much valuable time is wasted in meetings. Often little advance planning takes place, resulting in productivity drains rather than productivity gains. It’s time to think like a ninja. With realistic and practical advice, this book shows how to reduce the amount of time you spend in meetings and ensure that the ones that you do attend are genuine opportunities to collaborate and get things done.

Wasting time in pointless meetings is the one thing that never seems to change. Martin Murphy, however, has helped a who's who of corporate clients transform time-sapping meetings into breakthrough sessions that are measurably productive. His strategy is not simply to make meetings more palatable; instead he reframes the entire concept of collaboration and introduces four "Work Sessions" that replace meetings to get more done faster than ever before.

Add some pizazz to the traditional panel discussion format with these tips and techniques. Drawn from her extensive experience as a nationally recognized speaker, master facilitator, and panel moderator, Kristin Arnold provides 123 different ways to transform a traditional panel discussion into the hit of your conference!

There's a big dull elephant in the boardroom: this meeting! Most of the millions of meetings held in the world today are a monumental waste of time and talent. Worse still, most of the so-called solutions and books for boring meetings are twice as boring. Boring Meetings Suck provides tips and tactics to deliver "Get-In, Get-It-Done, or Get-Out" style meetings, while also tackling what most prefer to avoid; that you don't have to be in charge of a meeting to take charge of a meeting.

From Dr. Rick Brinkman, one of the best-selling masterminds who made Dealing with People You Can't Stand a little less painful - and a lot more productive - comes the much-needed cure for that time-wasting, headache-inducing, soul-sucking plague known as meetings. This proven step-by-step method addresses the most common problems that derail a meeting: preparation, people, process, and time. Dr. Brinkman provides key insights into the human behaviors that lead to unsuccessful meetings, along with psychologically based tactics for addressing them.

After the speech has been written, the practice has been done, all that is left is for you to actually present your speech to the audience. It goes without saying that this can be one of life's biggest challenges! As long as you are taking the time to create and practice a speech, you sure want the speech to make an impact on your audience. You want to be able to deliver a great speech.

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52 Weekly Sales Meetings addresses common topics, situations, and techniques for today's sales teams. Our area of expertise is electronic media sales, but our concepts are applicable to all sellers.

In a business world where we are told that time is money, the real currency is communicating clearly at a poised and measured pace. Better Business Speech: Techniques, Tricks, and Shortcuts for Public Speaking at Work by Paul Geiger focuses on the challenges of being a strong communicator in a range of business settings. It begins with the basic premise that all speaking for business is public speaking. Therefore, these are the communication scenarios where any lack of confidence in speech ability will be magnified.

Smart Teams will help your team to go beyond personal productivity to enhance team productivity. Building on the concepts presented in Smart Work, which focuses on personal productivity, this audiobook shows you how to turn unproductive team behaviors that create friction into "superproductive" behaviors that promote flow. Productivity is, at its core, a leadership issue - and this audiobook provides practical guidelines that help you build a culture where productivity thrives.

In our increasingly complicated and data-driven world, many new developments are so complex that only experts comprehend their nuances. But what they don't grasp is how to tell the world about them. Communicating technical content to nontechnical listeners has fast become a critical 21st-century skill. Explaining what you do and why it's important drives funding, policy decisions, media exposure, public awareness, and customer adoption.

After decades of giving and viewing presentations in large multinational organizations, in many countries and cultures, Ana Maria Gonzales has seen it all, both good and bad! Ana Maria will guide you on how to avoid the well-known and not-so-well-known pitfalls. After some practice, you will become well-versed at giving powerful, persuasive, and compelling presentations. Most people absolutely dread public speaking; you will learn the tips and tricks he found that helped him throughout his career!

Need to speak and make a great impression? If you want to go from fearful to confident and average to outstanding, then this is the book that will take you to a standing ovation. Acclaimed speaker Ron Tsang shows you 15 powerful public speaking lessons in this practical and entertaining book, From Presentation to Standing Ovation.

When I coach speaking under pressure, my specialty is to help the speaker make a real and significant change during one private session of less than two hours. I learned this from the culmination of my life's journey, as told in these true memoirs of my real-life experiences being an actor, a spy, and a licensed private eye. There are no unrealistic techniques or made-up theories in this book. Every solution given to you has been actually done by me or witnessed in others. Everything is proven, and everything works - tried and true.

In Business Spotlight Audio 11/2024 können Sie Artikel, Dialoge und Interviews aus der Welt des Business-Englisch anhören. Mit Übungen verbessern Sie Ihre sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen. Und Sie erfahren Interessantes über Entwicklungen in Politik, Kultur, Gesellschaft und der Geschäftswelt - in dieser Ausgabe etwa darüber, wie man ein gelungenes Meeting gestalten kann, die Vor- und Nachteile der Zeitumstellung und wie sich die individuellen Präferenzen des eigenen Arbeitsteams herausfinden lassen. Die Texte werden von Muttersprachlern vorgetragen.