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Projecting Enthusiasm: The Key to Dynamic Presentations for Professionals

Autor Robert T. Tauber
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 sep 2019 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Regardless of your profession as a teacher, doctor, writer, or business associate, every presentation is a performance. To know your material is important, but to project your enthusiasm for the subject is just as vital to engage your audience.Research supports that presenters who boast an enthusiastic flair best engage, inform, and motivate their audiences. Dr. Robert Tauber uses his expertise to train you in the most effective presentation tools, with a joyful touch.Delivering a set of performance skills proven to deliver palpable results, Projecting Enthusiasm will teach you how to integrate suspense and surprise, humor, props, voice animation, creative entrances and exits, and more into your next performance. This book won't try to rewrite your speech or bombard you with intimidating critiques. Instead, you will learn that the passion you present gives your message an essential meaning and makes your audience value it as one worth listening to. Projecting Enthusiasm harnesses the exuberant, creative, and informative elements you want to bring to your next presentation and shows you how to do it.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781440872624
ISBN-10: 1440872627
Pagini: 218
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Provides a chapter-by-chapter toolkit of performance skills that can be applied immediately

Notă biografică

Robert T. Tauber, PhD, is professor emeritus, Penn State Behrend, The Pennsylvania State University, Erie, PA. He is the author of Classroom Management: Sound Theory and Effective Practice. He is well published with nine texts and numerous journal articles.

Cuprins

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I: The Key to Being a Dynamic Presenter: Feel It! Project It!Chapter 1Pedagogical Training That Works!IntroductionThe Importance of PedagogyWhat's in It for Me?Two Weights on Your ShouldersSummaryChapter 2To Present Is to Teach; To Teach Is to PresentIntroductionA Rose by Any Other Name .Sharing "Ah, Ha" ExperiencesConversational Writing StyleLearning is Fun(damental)Telling QuotationsPresentation Is Everything!SummaryChapter 3The Case for Presentations, Lectures, Spiels, and Other TalksIntroductionWhat Do Audiences Think?Let's Hear It for Good Lectures and PresentationsWhat's in a Name?Presenting It LiveShould "You" Lecture or Present?TED TalksSummaryChapter 4Enthusiasm: A Presentation NecessityIntroductionEnthusiasm: A Presentation NecessityEnthusiasm: Useful SynonymsEnthusiasm: Its Relationship to PedagogyWanted! More "Oomph"It Can't Be That Simple, Can It?Passion: "Let's Kick It Up a Notch!"Enthusiasm: Can Too Much Be Too Much?Presenter EvaluationsEnthusiasm and Subject-Matter MatrixSummaryChapter 5Parallel between Acting, Teaching, and PresentingIntroduction"Act" Your AgeTeaching Is Teaching; Presenting Is PresentingA Yorkshire StoryPower of Expectations: It Works Both WaysSummaryChapter 6Educational Foundations: Presenters as ActorsIntroductionSound Theory and Effective PracticeEducational Foundations for EnthusiasmTheorists Speak; Let's ListenYou Don't Need to Be an EinsteinAward-Winning Presenters Speak; Let's ListenThe Profession's Response, or Lack ThereofSummaryPART II: Enthusiasm-Generating Skills!IntroductionMight as Well Be Hanged for a Sheep as for a LambYul Brynner: Row G, Seat 6Chapter 7A Craftsperson's ToolboxIntroductionTools for Boosting Presenter EnthusiasmCreating Your Teacher- or Presenter-SelfA Craftsperson's ToolboxA Craftsperson's KnowledgeA Craftsperson's Top-Tray Delivery ToolsA Craftsperson's Other Delivery ToolsEnthusiasm Rating ChartSummaryChapter 8Animation in Body: A "Top-Tray" ToolIntroductionWe Are Designed to MoveValue of Animation in BodyRaise Your Left HandHow a Simple Change Made a DifferenceTED TalksCategories of MovementDo Nothing, but Do It WellPlan Where You StepGesturesFacial ExpressionEye ContactSmilingPostureBehaviors to AvoidTrue Story? Maybe, Maybe Not!SummaryChapter 9Animation in Voice: A "Top-Tray" ToolIntroductionGreat OratorsHurl Your WordsHow Do You Sound to Others?Vocal FitnessParalanguageSpontaneous Voice VariationsDeliberate Voice VariationsVolume and ProjectionWhisperingRateTonePitchQualityCadence and InflectionPausesDreaded "Ums"Creating CharactersLaryngitis and Sore ThroatsSummaryChapter 10Humor: A "Top-Tray" ToolIntroductionIs Humor Too "Mickey Mouse"?Competent and ConfidentBenefits of HumorHumor: Its Impact on AudiencesCategories of HumorSelf-Deprecating HumorLettermen's Top Ten ReasonsBrainstorm Humorous Sentence EndingsHumor in Patients' Hospital ChartsWhat You Say May Not Be What They HearCartoons: A Safe First Step into HumorUsing Humor: A Gaggle of IdeasPossible Unexpected Benefits of HumorSummaryChapter 11Suspense, Surprise, and StorytellingIntroductionCreating Suspense and SurpriseIgnorance 101!StorytellingRelationship to Other Performance SkillsSurprise! Don't TalkUsing Suspense and SurpriseSummaryChapter 12Role-PlayingIntroductionDr. Eakin: Great Scientists SpeakPlaying a RoleCreating a CharacterDead Poets SocietyMeeting of MindsThe Role-Play ProcessSkinner versus RogersThe Actual DebateStorytelling: Here It Is AgainMimeSummaryChapter 13Use of PropsIntroductionPicture PropsSound PropsMusic, Movies, and Television PropsAlex Trebek's Jeopardy!"Imagine": A John Lennon Prop"The Raven": Edgar Allan Poe PropSpandex Reveals AllPresenter PropsPuppets as PropsSelected Medical PropsUsing the Audience as PropsProp BoxGuidelines for Using PropsTechnology Props InvadePowerPointNotes as PropsSummaryChapter 14Space UtilizationIntroductionLectern LingeringProxemicsSpace and Its LimitationsBlockingVenue SeatingWhere Audiences Choose to SitSpontaneous Use of SpaceSummaryChapter 15Creative Entrances and ExitsIntroductionEntrances and ExitsUsing "Hooks"Using Law Quotations as "Hooks"Ethics of Playing Musical ChairsPhysical EntrancesVerbal EntrancesMusical EntrancesMister Rogers' NeighborhoodWhat's in a Name or Title?Crafting a TitleFor the Love of ThreeEntrance RitualsEntrance PageantryA Presenter's MarqueeEnding on a High NoteStage FrightShowtime!SummaryChapter 16Behind the ScenesIntroductionWork behind the ScenesBehind the Scenes SuggestionsSummaryPART III: Engage Master PresentersChapter 17Engage the Masters: Learn from ThemIntroductionNo Serious Challenge to This Book's PremiseKnock on Their Doors; Pick Up Your PhoneThey Have Walked in Your ShoesHumility and Curiousness"Objection, Your Honor"Stop Spinning Your WheelsWhat Else Can You Do? Lots!Chapter 18ConclusionIntroductionWillingness and CourageA Presenter's Manner and MethodThe Curtain Comes DownFerris Bueller's Day OffAppendix: Enthusiasm Rating ChartReferencesIndex