This Week in Insights: Week of August 10

by Tim Pollard

Mastering the Moment

Perfecting the Skills and Processes of Exceptional Presentation Delivery

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For most people, delivering a presentation is a harrowing experience. Much is often at stake, yet presenters struggle to perform as well as they'd like. In this engaging book, speaker, author, and communications consultant Tim Pollard breaks this challenging moment down into its most important components and teaches you how to master each.

How to prepare:

Understanding your audience from an intellectual, emotional, and cultural perspective

Grasping the importance and practice of exceptional rehearsal Valuing the venue: making it work for you rather than against you

What to do:

Mastering the presentation opening Exploring communication mechanics Managing your audience

Who to be:

Cultivating a winning style: the three pillars of authority, authenticity, and directiveness

Harnessing the power of "muscular" language

Leveraging the core tools of rhetoric

With practical advice, relatable stories, and vibrant examples, Mastering the Moment employs Pollard's engaging style, making the guidance as absorbing to read as it is easy to adopt.

What People are Saying

Sue Graham

Elantas, CEO

We’ve used the approach outlined in this book to change the way our executives make presentations. It has made a huge difference in our success rate with both internal and external customers. It’s is actually a fun read, and the concepts aren’t hard to implement, but you have be committed to changing the focus of your presentations to what the audience needs to know.

Sue Graham

Elantas, CEO

We’ve used the approach outlined in this book to change the way our executives make presentations. It has made a huge difference in our success rate with both internal and external customers. It’s is actually a fun read, and the concepts aren’t hard to implement, but you have be committed to changing the focus of your presentations to what the audience needs to know.

Sue Graham

Elantas, CEO

We’ve used the approach outlined in this book to change the way our executives make presentations. It has made a huge difference in our success rate with both internal and external customers. It’s is actually a fun read, and the concepts aren’t hard to implement, but you have be committed to changing the focus of your presentations to what the audience needs to know.

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