Useful, practical and fun
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This useful book should be added to the library of any professional who is likely to be presenting to colleagues.....MBA students take note!! James has very helpfully illustrated his suggests and pragmatic approaches to developing and delivering a presentation with `real life' insights from his professional coaching work. Several of his ideas are new to me and have relevance beyond presenting - They will work in other forms of communications and beyond the workplace setting.
Thank you James Caplin for making my future presentations more relevant and less dull.
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Really useful stuff
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I think this is essential reading for all of us who, from time to time, are called upon to make presentations. The big takeaway for me was about shifting the focus from obsessing about having beautiful powerpoint to understanding that what's on the slides - if I now choose to use them at all - is just the back drop to me presenting myself. I'm then freer to be more natural.
The book came my way just as I was called upon to do a presentation for a pitch. As I write this, I don't yet know if I got the work or not, but I know from having used James' book as a bit of a manual for my preparation, that I feel very confident in how it went. Irrespective of the outcome, that's a great place to be. Thank you James!
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A book to read - and use!
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A book that really needed to be written. It completely re-frames the concept of 'Presenting' and makes it a day-to-day skill that we all need and have - if only we knew how to access it. And this book teaches us how to do exactly that.
James's book is written for the individual but as a coach I'm finding it incredibly useful. Travelling to see a client, I abandoned my PC and the newspaper in it's favour and was so glad I had - it's a fun and compelling read and ........ I used some of the thinking from the first few chapters with 2 of the 3 clients I worked with that day and they really benefited from it.
It's one of those books that I know I'll be constantly giving away and having to buy yet another copy for myself!
Hilary Cochrane, Executive Coach
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