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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0071628592
  • ISBN-13:
    9780071628594
  • PUB. DATE:
    September 2009
  • PUBLISHER:
    McGraw-Hill Companies, The

Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get Results / Edition 1 by David Booth, Deborah Shames, Peter Desberg

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Highly Recommended - much better than your typical business bookby JYeakel

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I'm a marketing consultant who often leads meetings, gives presentations, and tries to convince others to follow my recommnedations. I'm always open to learning new ways to be more effective and more comfortable in all sorts of business situations and so I've read my share of business/sales books and have attended many corporate training sessions. What's great about Own The Room is that it's not...

A Public Speakers Survival Guideby JRFitzgarrald

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If you're speaking publicly and haven't read this book, you've got more guts than I (and possibly less fans)! Smart, entertaining and chalk full of client anecdotes (both success stories as well as train wrecks), Deborah and David have done all the homework for business professionals to position themselves as savvy and engaging trusted advisors. This book is a MUST HAVE for any business professional...

A book read and read againby LDenslow

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As a professional speaker I'm always interested in tips that can help me connect with my audience, inspire and engage the people around me. This book is full of ideas that work. I've worked with the authors and draw on their advice, suggestions and pointers for every talk I give whether its for 2 people or 200. I am happy that there is a Kindle edition so I can take this book with me as I travel and...


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Own the Room

Product Details

  • Pub. Date: September 2009
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Sales Rank: 291,047

Synopsis

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.

Biography

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.