Point, Click & Wow!: The Techniques and Habits of Successful Presenters | 
 enlarge | Author: Claudyne Wilder
Publisher: Pfeiffer
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Edition: 3
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0787997455
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.45
EAN: 9780787997458
ASIN: 0787997455
Publication Date: September 9, 2008
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Presenting with Confidence In Point, Click & Wow! you will find the insider knowledge of public speaking that we all need but were never taught. When Point, Click & Wow! was first published more than ten years ago, it quickly became the go-to resource for creating laptop presentations that have the "Wow!" factor. Completely reworked and updated, this new third edition puts the focus on you, the presenter, who must create a winning presentation every time. Claudyne Wilder's groundbreaking book offers myriad new features and updated slide designs as well as illustrative stories and advice from executives. Point, Click & Wow! is useful for everyone from the occasional presenter to the seasoned sales representative. Covering the entire process from concept to finished presentation, this comprehensive resource includes new chapters to help you A Demonstrate executive presence A Use tips, tricks and techniques to create presentations in a hurry A Design presentations with powerful openings, closings, and executive summaries This is the book for creating persuasive presentations and proposals that will sell a product or idea with pizzazz. Praise for Point, Click & Wow! "Claudyne's book is a must-read for anyone who wants to convince and inspire an audience. Her approach translates the seemingly overwhelming presentation process into a clear recipe for success. I have a copy in my bookshelf and so should you."
aShari E. Redstone, President, National Amusements; Vice-chairwoman, CBS Corporation and Viacom; and Chairwoman, Midway Games "A worldclass presentation resource, rich with essential tools and techniques to capture, motivate and dazzle your audience. Read this book!"
aSteve Siebold, CSP, author, 177 Mental Toughness Secrets of the World Class
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 Smart, earnest, thorough...though not quite wow November 27, 2008
This book is a thorough, legitimate entry in the presentation guidance field by someone who is clearly a professional immersed on a full-time basis in training would-be presenters. It goes through structuring, preparing and delivering a presentation in exhaustive detail (much more so than most books on PowerPoint), and is chock full of tables, checklists and references to useful material. It also comes with a CD-ROM including many of the sample presentations the author discusses.
The best way to look at this book is to think of it as a solid, year-long, introductory course at an excellent state university. ("Huh?" I hear you ask...) The unfortunate fact is that most people who give PowerPoint presentations have no training, no conception of what makes for a good presentation, and no skills in either story telling or graphic design. If I had to give an entering letter grade to the clients (mostly corporate CEOs) who come to me for presentation coaching, I would say that the range is from D to C+, with a very rare occasional outlier of a B. This book, if read cover to cover and followed religiously, is pretty much guaranteed to take everyone, no matter what your starting level, up to a B+. And that result would both be doing a major service to humanity, and is something that 90% of Wilder's corporate readers would be delighted to achieve.
The problem is that since this book was first written, the bar has been raised on what constitutes a 'great' presentation. Heeding Wilder's advice, while assuring you of a solid set of presentation skills, will also assure that you DON'T hit the ball out of the park. The epitome of presentation quality these days, as represented by the work of people like Nancy Duarte (who did Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and who has written her own presentation book, slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations), Larry Lessig, Hans Rosling, Bill Strickland, Rives, Ze Frank, and others (many of whose presentations can be viewed online at [...]), is simply a different beast from the traditional bullet point/diagram slides, no matter how carefully edited or structured. These 'new world' presentations break through typical lists and points, and are mostly (if not all) zen-like in their simplicity, serving as *supporting* emotional resonance for the speaker, rather than data that is narrated by the presenter.
While you probably should buy this book for its in-depth discussion of mechanics and preparation skills, the 'bible' of modern presentation design is Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, by Garr Reynolds, whose blog of the same name has become mandatory reading for the world-class presenting crowd. PresentationZen (to return to my analogy) is the Ivy League seminar taught by the world class professor, that will inspire you for the rest of your life.
If you're serious about learning to give great presentations, your library should probably include Wilder, certainly include Duarte, and absolutely, positively MUST include Reynolds. Other excellent works to go alongside them on the shelf are Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story by Jerry Weissman and The Articulate Executive: Learn to Look, Act, and Sound Like a Leader by Granville Toogood.
But whatever you do, read at least one of the above, and take its message to heart. Powerpoint can be sublime when done correctly, and you owe it to your audience to do your best to make it so!
 Very Practical November 24, 2008
It's easy to forget that truly great presentations did not just come out of thin air - they require lots of hard work. This book outlines a practical approach to work towards success, but it's not a magic bullet. Practice and incorporation of many of these techniques will make perfect.
point click wow November 18, 2008
As a university professor that gives lectures to a wide variety of audiences, in the USA and abroad, this book takes a step-by-step approach to becoming an even more effective speaker. It begins by helping you think through your strategy and provides even the most polished speaker with new tactics and small but so thoughtful tips about using PowerPoint and organizing slide shows. Given the importance of making persuasive presentations, this should be required reading for every manager. I would particularly recommend it for MBA students. They will learn how to give an effective, professional presentation to executives.
 Please Don't Buy This Book! October 20, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Please don't buy this book. If you do, that will be one less person committing Death by PowerPoint, and one less person who might need to seek my services or attend my conference. One less person boring an audience with gratuitous animation or overladen text slides. Does the world really need one fewer person committing presentation blunders in public?
Well, the world needs about 15,000,000 fewer people doing those things, and Claduyne is the person to be singing that message. I particularly like how she advocates in Chapter 4 for templates that actually contain content instead of just a slide master or two. And a few pages later when she writes "refuse to give up white space" -- yes! And do you own a wireless remote, as she recommends? No?? That's like a carpenter not owning a hammer!
So please don't buy this book...but if you insist, I am sure that you will master your inner monologue (Chapter 7) and become the magic in your own presentation (Chapter 9).
Mus Have Resource October 10, 2008
This is a MUST HAVE resource for developing presentations. This practical and easy-to-read book provides the novice as well as a seasoned presenter the tools and techniques to be successful. I recommend this book to anyone who needs to do presentations!
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