Kerri GarbisPresentation Skills for Managers, Second Edition
Kerri Garbis is a professional actress and the President and co-founder of Ovation Communication, a boutique consulting and training firm specializing in holistic presentation, communication, and relationship-building skill development.
Introduction
1. Rehearsal Process
The Talk Through The Walk Through Dress Rehearsal The Rehearsal Process and
You Manager's Checklist for Chapter 1
2. The Essentials
The Feet, the Hands, and the Face Making eye contact work for you
Empowering your voice Avoiding filler words Manager's Checklist for Chapter
2
3. Fear and confidence
Why am I Nervous? Harnessing Your Nerves
How to Fell More Calm and Appear More Confident Know Your Symptoms
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 3
4. Audience Analysis
Audience Demographics Audience Mindset Expectations Audience Analysis is
Essential to Creating Your Presentation Manager's Checklist for Chapter 4
5. Acting techniques that help you create content
Identifying Your Presentation Objectives Using Presentation Strategies
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 5
6. The Blueprint for every Presentation
Introduction Organizing Your Presentation Body Conclusion Manager's
Checklist for Chapter 6
7. Storytelling for audience engagement
How to Tell a Story Incorporating Stories into Presentations Storytelling
is Fluid Manager's Checklist for Chapter 7
8. Performance techniques
Make It All about You Control Your Visuals Get Away From the Furniture
Don't Match the Backdrop Reading Your Audience Manager's Checklist for
Chapter 8
9. Stage Movement
Being Seen Confident First Impressions and Final Moments Using Your Stage
Seated Presentations Manager's Checklist for Chapter 9
10. Actors' secrets for sharing the stage
Preparing to Co-Present Group Presentation Rehearsal Co-Presenting with
someone who wants to "Wing It" Presenting on a Panel Manager's Checklist
for Chapter 10
11. Q&A management
Planning for Audience Questions Elements of a Good Answer How to Not Answer
a Question Rehearsing Q&A Manager's Checklist for Chapter 11
12. What If...?
What If... You Need to Acknowledge an Issue to the Crowd?
What If... You're Presenting Someone Else's Content?
What If... You Don't Care about or Aren't Connected to the Content?
What If... You Have to Deliver the Same Information Over and Over Again?
What If... You Get Shorted on Time?
What If... You're Given Extra Time?
What If... You Skip a Major Point?
What If... You Forget a Prop?
What If... You Totally Lose Your Audience?
What If... You Have a Heckler or a Hijacker?
What If... You Discover an Error in Your Visuals?
What If... You Need to Cancel?
What If... You Get surprising Feedback?
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 12
Conclusion
Index
