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Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, 3rd edition

Published by New Riders (December 14, 2019) © 2020

  • Garr Reynolds

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In Presentation Zen, 3rd Edition, best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds shows students how to reach and motivate their audiences, using modern versions of PowerPoint, Keynote, and other presentation tools. Students will learn how to build slides that focus their audience’s attention precisely where they want it, and illuminate and inspire people rather than burying them in facts and data. Garr’s new full-color examples, lessons, and perspectives combine proven design principles with the tenets of Zen simplicity, and help readers along the path to creating and delivering cleaner, better presentations.
  • Reach and motivate audiences through simplicity and storytelling: use slides to make your message unforgettable, not drown it out
  • Transform how you think about using PowerPoint, Keynote, or any other presentation software
  • Reinvigorate existing material in fresh and interactive ways that make it resonate as never before
  • By Garr Reynolds, host of presentationzen.com, the Internet’s leading site for better presentation design and delivery
Revised to reflect advances in presentation technology and software over the past several years, and to include new images throughout.
Foreword by Guy Kawasaki

INTRODUCTION
Presenting in Today's World

PREPARATION
Creativity, Limitations, and Constraints
Planning Analog
Crafting the Story

DESIGN
Simplicity: Why It Matters
Presentation Design: Principles and Techniques
Sample Visuals: Images & Text

DELIVERY
The Art of Being Completely Present
Connecting with an Audience
The Need for Engagement

NEXT STEP:
The Journey Begins

Garr Reynolds is the bestselling author of Presentation Zen, Presentation Zen Design, and The Naked Presenter, and a leading authority on presentation design and delivery. A sought-after speaker and consultant, his clients include many in the Fortune 500. An award-winning writer, designer, and musician, he is currently Professor of Management and Communication Design at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan. Garr is a former corporate trainer for Sumitomo Electric, Inc. and worked as the Manager for Worldwide User Group Relations at Apple, Inc. His popular website can be found at presentationzen.com. He lives with his family in the countryside of Nara, Japan.

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