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Offering practical strategies for professional success, this book provides valuable insights on navigating workplace challenges. It emphasizes essential skills and mindset shifts needed to thrive in various job environments. Readers will find actionable advice to enhance their performance, build resilience, and foster positive relationships with colleagues. The guidance is tailored to help individuals not only excel in their current roles but also prepare for future opportunities and growth in their careers.

Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact, but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often, presentations don't resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action.Just as the author's first book helped presenters become visual communicators, Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience and lead them to purposeful action. The author's approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach, you'll convey your content with passion, persuasion, and impact.Author has a proven track record, including having created the slides in Al Gore's Oscar-winning An Inconvenient TruthFocuses on content development methodologies that are not only fundamental but will move people to action Upends the usual paradigm by making the audience the hero and the presenter the mentor Shows how to use story techniques of conflict and resolution Presentations don't have to be boring ordeals. You can make them fun, exciting, and full of meaning. Leave your audiences energized and ready to take action with Resonate.

A startling, subversive novel features fourteen-year-old Lucia, a teenage girl who has lost everything and is driven by anger, particularly towards those who try to control her. She adheres to her own rule: Don't Do Things You Aren't Proud Of. Orphaned and living in poverty with her elderly aunt in a converted garage, Lucia navigates life with just a book, a Zippo lighter, and stolen licorice. After being expelled from school once more, she spends her days visiting her mother in The Home. When she stumbles upon a secret Arson Club, her desire to join becomes all-consuming. Lucia's arson manifesto is a brilliant, anarchist pamphlet filled with biting wit and intelligence. Her voice is a powerful, emotional expression from a super-smart, funny girl who reveals uncomfortable truths, creating a riveting chronicle of family, misguided friendships, and loss. This novel is Jesse Ball's most accessible work yet, showcasing dazzling pyrotechnics. Readers will find themselves captivated by Lucia, who stands alongside iconic child truth-tellers like David Copperfield and Holden Caulfield, making her story unforgettable.

A collection of best practices for creating slide presentations. It changes your approach, process and expectations for developing visual aides. It makes the difference between a good presentation and a great one.

Readers will learn to understand the story behind the data and how to influence the people with a DataStory.

Terrified of speaking in front of a group> Or simply looking to polish your skills? No matter where you are on the spectrum, this guide will give you the confidence and the tools you need to get results. Learn how to wIn over tough crows, organize a coherent narrative, create powerful messages and visuals, connect with and engage your audience, show people why your ideas matter to them, and strike the right tone, in any situation.

'Illuminate' demonstrates how, though the power of persuasive communication, one can turn an idea into a movement, as compared with the likes of Steve Jobs, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Starbucks, IBM, and more.

This guide brings together 30 articles on improving meetings, originally published by business specialists in other volumes or posted on Harvard Business Review's website from 2009 to 2016. They address preparation, conducting meetings, participation, closing and follow-up, and specific types of meetings, and discuss topics like setting and communicating the meeting's purpose, inviting the right people, preparing an achievable agenda, moderating a lively conversation, regaining control of a unruly meeting, establishing ground rules for participation, reaching group decisions, interjecting, conducting a meeting of people from different cultures, and virtual, standing, walking, and leadership meetings.

This collection offers essential guides designed to enhance productivity and effectiveness in various tasks. Each guide focuses on practical strategies and techniques that empower readers to manage their time and resources more efficiently, fostering a proactive approach to personal and professional challenges. Ideal for anyone looking to improve their organizational skills and achieve their goals.

Wie viele Präsentationen haben Sie in Ihrem Berufsleben bereits verfolgt? Und Hand aufs Herz: Wie viele davon haben einen bleibenden Eindruck bei Ihnen hinterlassen? Wirklich gute Präsentationen sind noch immer die Ausnahme, denn nur selten werden die Möglichkeiten dieses Mediums optimal genutzt. Wer sein Publikum nachhaltig überzeugen möchte, muss seine Ideen verdichten und in stimmige Bilder umsetzen. slide: ology setzt hier an und führt Sie in die Kunst des visuellen Erzählens ein. Die Autorin Nancy Duarte weiß, wovon sie spricht: Sie leitet Duarte Design, das Unternehmen, das unter anderem die Slide-Show in Al Gores Oscar-prämiertem Film Eine unbequeme Wahrheit entwickelt hat. In slide: ology gewährt sie tiefe Einblicke in ihr umfangreiches Wissen als Designerin. Anhand von Fallstudien bringt sie Ihnen darüber hinaus die Visualisierungsstrategien einiger der erfolgreichsten Unternehmen der Welt nahe. slide: ology zeigt Ihnen unter anderem, wie Sie: * Ihr Publikum gezielt ansprechen * Ihre Ideen auf den Punkt bringen und ein stimmiges Design entwickeln * Ihre Aussagen mit Farben, Bildern und prägnantem Text unterstützen * Grafiken erstellen, die Ihren Zuhörern das Verständnis erleichtern * Präsentationstechnologien optimal nutzen Mit slide: ology erreichen Sie, dass Ihre Präsentationen aus der Masse der Standardvorträge herausstechen. Es lehrt Sie, visuell zu denken und die Aufmerksamkeit Ihres Publikums auf das zu lenken, worauf es wirklich ankommt: Ihre Ideen und Visionen.