Synopses & Reviews
Don't Just Present. Persuade, Inspire, and Perform! Powerhouse presentations that engage and move your audience
Imagine if every presentation received rapt attention and buy-in from the audience.
Start getting these results with Own the Room, featuring the renowned Eloqui Method-innovative techniques that leave boring behind.
Research shows a memorable presentation is a combination of stirring your audience's emotions while appealing to its intellect. This team of authors has developed techniques that tap into the persuasive, expressive aspects of presentations-employed over the past ten years by Fortune 500 companies such as TD Ameritrade, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Merrill Lynch, Siemens, and Pfizer.
This effective method brings you:
- An award-winning actor who applies performance techniques from the stage to engage and move an audience
- A television and film director who demonstrates how to craft and deliver your message with authority, credibility, and authenticity
- A psychologist who specializes in memory and stage fright and reveals how to overcome fear and activate an audience's attention and memory
Own the Room is written by a unique set of authors with the expertise perfect for creating vivid narratives. Own the Room shares how to excite your audience's emotions and intellect. And Own the Room will give you a communication toolkit to make any presentation lively, compelling, and memorable.
Synopsis
The winning technique that helps readers tap into their audience's emotions--used by Fortune 500 Companies for over 15 years
A stunningly effective combination of professional acting techniques, corporate skill sets, and psychological insights, creates a proven system for preparing and delivering professional presentations that really make an impact. Used by leading corporations, this step-bystep program shows readers how to overcome their fears of public speaking, tap into their audience's emotions, and achieve their corporate goals through the fine art, and science, of persuasion.
About the Author
David Booth is a professional theater director and actor. He taught acting at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts.
Deborah Shames is an award-winning film producer and director. She has years of experience directing and producing several independent films and over sixty corporate training and educational videos.
Peter Desberg is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and University Professor. He has authored 18 books and is a nationally renowned presenter and keynote speaker at professional conferences.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Intention: The Driving Force
2. Roles
3. Premiere: How to Open
4. Finale: How to Close
5. For Example: The Power of Narrative
6. Stage Fright
7. Presenting in Teams
8. Physical Grammar: Movement as Punctuation
9. Power Point Revival
10. Being Memorable
11. The Final Word
Appendix: Action Verbs
Glossary of Terms
Index