12 Responses

1. Recommendations

   My initial thoughts are Steve:

   Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Design-Delivery/dp/0321525655/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1309762380&sr=8-9

   The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations with or without Slides (Voices That Matter) by Garr Reynolds

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Naked-Presenter-Delivering-Powerful-Presentations/dp/0321704452/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2

   Succesful Presentation Skills by Andy Bradbury

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Successful-Presentation-Skills-Creating-Success/dp/0749456620/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1#_

2. An Inconvenient Truth

   I think you would be hard pushed to find a better presentation than Al Gore in An Inconnvenient Truth

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inconvenient-Truth-DVD-Al-Gore/dp/B000IU4DO6

   Sir Ken Robinson is also pretty impressive on TED

   http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

    

3. List of presentation thought leaders who inspire my work

   There are many thought leaders for presenting ideas – at all occcassions.

   I agree with the two posted already and would add a list I’ve compiled for my work: I coach professionals to present with impact. Here is a link to a page done for a university discussion earlier this year: http://azione-scopo.com/villanova/

   Also, a link to the handout provided for them with extensive follow-on resources: http://tinyurl.com/azione-present1 

   Enjoy!

   ~Linda DeLuca

   azione-scopo.com

   presentationYOU.com

4. Recommendations

   Hi Rus, although I’ve not had a chance to review this site myself I was told by my TAP trainer that Toastmasters International is a great place to help with public speaking. You can find this at http://www.toastmasters.org/

   Hope this is useful.

   Cheers

   Olly

5. Rus, that’s what Google and Amazon are for, however…

   …here’s a very short list of what we’ve found useful:

   BOOKS

   Speaking PowerPoint by Bruce Gabrielle – brilliant.

   Moving Mountains – Henry M Boettinger.

   Speaking like a President – Simon Maier.

   Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds.

   BLOGS

   Olivia Mitchell – Speaking about presenting – http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/

   Hope this helps.

   Gavin Keeble.

   http://www.secondnature.co

6. “Rus, that’s what Google and Amazon are for, however…” Gavin K

   A bit harsh isn’t Gavin? Using Amazon.co.uk and entering ‘Presentation Skills’ only one of your excellent book recommendations comes up in the first fifty references and I stopped looking after that. The same thing happens with Google.co.uk and the blog reference, it wasn’t listed in the first ten pages I scanned.

   I think TrainingZone is exactly what this type of question is for, at least it has been since I first joined back in 1999.

7. thanks and thoughts….

   Firstly, can I thank all the people who have given their recommendations, both here and the couple of people who answered privately offline, your recommendations are greatly appreciated.

    

   Secondly, a thought prompted by Gavin’s headline……..If, when we want information, we only go to Google and/or Amazon, we are, as Garry has so ably demonstrated, potentially spoilt for choice, but still none the wiser regarding quality.  What I wanted was some expert opinion, some recommendations about what was really good rather than just a list of what was available.  As training providers, how short would our business life expectancy be if all our clients just went to Google and Amazon rather than coming to the experts for some tailored advice and assistance?

   Rus Slater

   http://www.coach-and-courses.com

    

8. Recommendation

   I would recommend Patsy Rodenburg’s work. 

    

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Presentation-Formal-Informal-Presence/dp/0718154118/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1309936561&sr=8-5

   She’s amazing to work with in person too – her focus is voice and energy and her techniques are simple and transformational.

    

9. how about

   Hi Rus

    

   Found this a pretty good read

    

   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Speaking-Presentations-Dummies-Malcolm-Kushner/dp/0470034726/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1309948937&sr=8-1

    

   Regards

    

   Chris

10. High Impact Presentations

    http://www.highip.com/

     

11. thanks all!

    Thanks All!

12. design tips and tricks blog

    Hi Russ.

    This is a free (as far as know) blog that I was subsribed to has part of an installation of Articulate (the elearning design application). As Articulate is a Powerpoint add-on the blog provides lots of free advice on designing PP slides. Although it’s skewed towards elearning design there’s quite a lot of Powerpoint tips and tricks etc.

    http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/

    Regards

     

    Pete