Dan Roam

A visual guide to making extraordinary presentations by the acclaimed author of The Back of the Napkin We are all natural born presenters. We have ideas to share, voices to share them, and people to share them with. So why do most of us find public speaking so hard? In this pithy but powerful guide, communication expert Dan Roam provides a simple five-step path to take us from jitters and complexity to confidence and clarity. He explains his tried-and-true visual techniques and the wisdom he has gained from giving award-winning presentations. Roam shows us how to: - Clearly present any idea with simple visuals - Know our audience before we step in front of them - Channel fear into fun Roam's lively visual style, hand-drawn pictures, and vivid text will help regular people overcome anxiety and make brilliant presentations.

How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations

Show & Tell

The author of The Back of the Napkin outlines a five-step plan for overcoming anxiety and other obstacles in order to deliver clear and effective presentations with confidence, sharing strategic visual techniques based on his own award-winning presentations.

Raluca Piteiu

The book is a really nice companion to any presenter. 
For the ones who have done this before, it is comforting to know that you're on the right track, and for the newbies it is a great resource to guide you towards how good presentations look like.

Riel Reyes

Dan Roam, the bestselling author of The Back of the Napkin, teaches us how to make extraordinary presentations. We are all natural born presenters. We have ideas to share, voices to share them, and people to share them with. But if we are all capable of giving presentations, why do we find public speaking so hard? Show and Tell provides a simple five-step path to take us from jitters and complexity to confidence and clarity. As presenters, our goal is to educate, entertain, persuade, motivate, and ultimately change our audience. As a top-notch presenter and speaker, Dan Roam has put together a guide full of his tried-and-true visual techniques and the wisdom he has gained from doing award winning presentations like "healthcare reform on napkins". Roam's lively visual style, hand-drawn pictures, and vivid text will help regular people overcome anxiety, carry out a vision, and perform a little magic. Dan Roam is the author of The Back of the Napkin, which was Fast Company's Best Business Book of the Year and BusinessWeek's Innovation and Design Book of the Year, and more recently Blah Blah Blah. He is the founder of Digital Roam, Inc., a management consulting company. His clients have included Microsoft, Google, Wal-Mart, Boeing, Lucasfilm, The Gap, and the White House Office of Communications. His health-care analysis was named BusinessWeek's Best Presentation of 2009. He lives in San Francisco. PLEASE NOTE: This eBook edition of SHOW AND TELL is carefully laid out to match the print book; this means it reads much better as designed pages, but you won't be able to use some features such as highlighting and annotating text.

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Robbie J Frye

For most of us, giving a presentation is difficult and nerve-wracking, whether in a one-on-one meeting or in front of thousands. But it doesn't have to be that way. We only struggle when we forget the basic steps we learned in nursery: show and tell. Dan Roam is an award-winning presenter who has taken his whiteboard everywhere, from tiny start-ups to the White house. In this powerful book he introduces new tools for making extraordinary presentations in any setting. You'll learn how to understand your audience, organize your content, build a clear storyline, create effective visuals and channel your fear into fun. From nailing the opening to leaving a lasting impression, you'll soon be able to give the performance of a lifetime . . . time after time. 'A must-read for seasoned presenters and novices alike.' David Allen author of Getting Things Done

Show & Tell How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations

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