HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (HBR Guide Series)

For those who also read Resonate and Slide:ology, you will find the new HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations a useful and compelling tool. Having worked with Nancy's team at Duarte Design, earlier this year, I found this ebook to be a useful receipt from that experience, reminding what is valuable when preparing to create and deliver an impactful presentation - especially to busy, distracted, high-powered executives. As in her other works, Nancy is authentic, practicing what she advocates by cleanly organizing her guidance and delivering it with passion. This book adds nicely to her volume set, adding useful tips on building relationships via social media channels and following-up with your audience after you've delivered. I recommend this handy ebook to my colleagues and my clients, as well as to my proteges who are learning - through practice - the art of tech entrepreneurship and strategy at Stanford, NUS (Singapore), KTH (Sweden), etc.

So I enjoy the previous work of the author so I expected it to be good, but thought it might be a little stale or textbook, not at all. Read this if you want to improve your presentations. Whether for business, pleasure or whatever this lays out a very nice formula, some good examples and an extremely structured view of how to approach presentations. This doesn't focus on slides and visuals like her previous work (though that was excellent in it's own right). In fact this book can guide you on how to do presentations without slides. Overall it's interesting, engaging, and extremely informative.

After reading, enjoying and studying Slide:ology and Resonate I felt curious about this new book from Nancy Duarte. Hadn't everything been covered already in those books? What's new in HBR Guide to Persuasive presentations? After reading it, my impression is that this new book is oriented to professionals with limited time who need useful tips, and a clear reference structure to improve their presentations. And boy does the book deliver! There are tons of tips, insights and practical examples. Some of the contents and ideas from the previous books have been condensed to fit this "lightweight" format. In addition, there's new information regarding Social Media interaction, and follow-up after presentation which I found priceless. Nancy does not lie to anyone: you have to work hard to make good presentation; really hard in fact. But the promise of the reward behind all the hard work makes the effort worthwhile. Be advised though: once you open this door and step in, there'll be no stepping back. You'll probably want to know more, be a better presenter, and your profesional life will change forever.

The tips in this book went beyond cookie-cutter presentation tips and offered useful, immediately applicable suggestions to improve presentation writing and delivery. I purchased the book after listening to the audio version so I'd have a hard copy to access anytime and take notes in. Highly recommend!

This guide from HBR was concise and well-crafted. Believing this book would take days to read, I was surprised to finish it in an afternoon. I couldn't put it down, which says a lot for a nonfiction. Though the guide contains some "no-s***" recommendations, it has increased the quality of my business presentations, which is exactly what it aims to do. I would recommend it for anyone who speaks in front of a group of people.

I chose this rating because: 1. Ms Duarte is an experienced expert in the mechanics, art, and engagement of presentations; see her YouTube videos to judge for yourself. 2. Her how-to information is bite-sized and therefore easily understood. Each concept is from 2-4 pages in length and supports its thesis. 3. She covers ALL the topics from the mental how-to-persuade to pre-checking your presentation technology (where's your VGA cord?) Nice job!

This is really the only Duarte you need to buy, if you're looking at her body of work and wondering. No, it doesn't have all the layout stuff that Slideology has, but after reading all her stuff (library and purchased), I feel like this would have been the one to focus on (although it was published AFTER I had read through all her others). I feel it's the most practical, and jettisons some of the fluff you find in her other books. I have highlighted, dog-eared and stickie-taped throughout this whole book.

Easy to read and very helpful for presentations, generating and organizing ideas. It provides crucial information to persuade customers and how to identify the right audience. Great book for the price.

This book by Nancy Duarte is a very valuable guide. She is definitely a guru and it shows as she takes you through a journey on how to make exceptional presentations. Here you will get useful guidance on how to understand your audience, how to develop your message, tell stories and most importantly how to use presentation media. There is an art to developing slides and building decks. Finally your delivery and impact brings it all together. This is a nugget filled volume that will serve you well as you inspire and motivate your audience wherever you may be delivering your presentations.

Great book that was delivered promptly.

Indispensabile. Il vostro scopo è scrivere presentazioni di qualità (proprio in termini di comunicazione)? Questo è il libro che fa' per voi. Vi aiuta a capire come strutturare una presentazione, come svilupparla e come esporla, in funzione della platea, del messaggio da veicolare, delle circostanze e delle dotazioni tecnologiche. Parole, numeri, concetti, fatti o grafica. Attenzione, non è specifico su grafica e design, piuttosto che PowerPoint. Per questi argomenti occorrono altri testi da leggere "DOPO". Prima, questo. Tutto il resto è noia.

No sólo aprendes sino que lo haces de forma entretenida. Imprescindible

Excelente conteúdo! Um verdadeiro PDCA no mundo das apresentações! Sugiro leitura e prática! Torne-se um novo apresentador de sucesso! Antonio Augusto