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| A #1 USA Today excellent seller A Wall Street Journal excellent seller A BusinessWeek excellent seller An 800-CEO-READ excellent seller Fear. Public speaking is one of the much common phobias. Whether presenting a sales pitch to a small group of decision makers or addressing a crowd of hundreds at a company forum, all presenters harbor the same fear. Master speaker TJ Walker has the answer--the secret--to giving foolproof presentations: focus on what the audience really wants. Based on thousands of presentation workshops and personal coaching sessions together with CEOs, prime ministers, members of Congress, and average business people, TJ Walker's Secret to Foolproof Presentations will do each reader a better presenter. The book details his audience-centric approach to preparing, rehearsing, testing, and bringing presentations this will keep listeners talking concerning the message long afterwards they've left the room. Walker addresses the much common questions speakers have, such as - How long should my presentation be?
- How can I excellent use technology in my presentation?
- When should I get questions?
- What do I do if I do a mistake?
- What should I do together with my hands?
In a direct, conversational, and often humorous style, Walker proposes novice presenters and savvy speakers specific advice and concrete techniques this will do each presentation memorable and foolproof. |
Customer Reviews |
 Get it Right the First Time! 2010-08-17 |
| By K. Albertson (Irvine , CA) |
"TJ Walker's Secret to Foolproof Presentations" by TJ Walker
ISBN 978-1-929774-88-3
TJ Walker fills you with clarity and purpose for any presentation you may make. He makes his points and educates you on ways to improve yourself. How do you know you are as good as you think? How good does your audience feel you are? Many presenters haven't got the guts to really ask. Walker helps you get there! He covers how to handle stage fright and nervousness. Delivering your presentation is different from planning it in our mind, so he covers how to give it that punch with rehearsals. His techniques and suggestions will be helpful over your lifetime and you will find many ways to incorporate these ideas in your professional and personal life.
We all need to be reminded of how to best prepare for the presentation...it isn't enough to have all of the data and facts organized. You find that you spend hours upon hours preparing the facts. Preparing for accuracy and depth--to prove that you know your stuff. Well, your audience won't remember it unless you make it appealing to them. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder," as they say and that isn't much different from what your listener will walk away with. It has to be meaningful and interesting for that listener to take something important away from your speech. How many presentations have you heard that bored you to tears? You probably have given many. We all have been guilty of thinking through a speech in our head, but not rehearsing it. How many times has it come out completely different, and not as good, because you didn't dedicate enough time to prep? How many times have you asked for feedback that was real and meaningful?
This book will prevent you from being a boring lecturer. It helps you outline and prepare with new vision and goals. He talks about how to not use PowerPoint! Connecting with the audience takes preparation and planning. Walker provides this and much more. His techniques benefit the inexperienced as well as the veteran speakers. It will help you think outside the box. Creating and maintaining interest is possible by using his key points. He has many messages and techniques that make your presentation planning easier, and more fun! I used it to prep a webinar presentation, and I structured my Power Point and my stories completely differently than I had in the past. A home run!
I received a complimentary review copy.
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| The Real Secret to Making Great Presentations. 2010-02-27 |
| By Danek S. Kaus (Silicon Valley, California) |
TJ Walker's Secret to Foolproof Presentations is not written for public speakers only, although they will benefit immensely from this compact book.
It is written for anyone who has anything important to say in any context, to as few as one person. Think job interview, sales call, marriage proposal, a pitch to investors, and so on, and most definitely, a public speech or presentation.
The title is misleading in another way, as well. It shares not one secret to making great presentations, but dozens. Each of them written is bite-sized, easy-to-undestand, chapters. No theory, no filler. All meat.
Some of the secrets Walker and co-author Jess Todtfeld share are:
How to overcome stage fright or nervousness
What the realistic goals are for your presentation
How long your presentation should be
How many key points to cover
How to use PowerPoint effectively
Whether or not to use whiteboards, flip-charts etc.
How to use humor
How to connect with the audience
How to troubleshoot your presentation
How to develop a lifetime presentation improvement plan
and... The One Big Secret to Foolproof Presentations. The secret that makes all the other secrets work.
Walker knows what he's talking about. He has appeared on over 1,000 TV and radio news/talk shows, including Fox News Channel, NBC Radio and National Pubic Radio. He is the CEO of Media Training Worldwide.
In sum, I highly recommend this book to anyone who ever has the occasion to speak to another human being.
Read it and speak. With confidence and power.
Danek S. Kaus, author of You Can Be Famous! Insider Secrets to Getting Free Publicity You Can Be Famous: Insider Secrets to Getting Free Publicity and co-author of Power Persuasion: Using Hypnotic Influence to Win in Life, Love and Business Power Persuasion: Using Hypnotic Influence to Win In Life, Love And Business |
| TJ Walker has tremendous passion 2009-09-26 |
| By Harrison Monarth (Denver, CO USA) |
TJ has one of the key attributes a successful speaker needs, and that is passion for his craft and topic. I am not surprised at all that this book is a bestseller. I'd prefer that people buy my book, The Confident Speaker, but you can't go wrong with TJ Walker's advice and his tremendous experience in the art and science of speaking.
Harrison Monarth
New York Times bestselling author of The Confident Speaker (McGraw-Hill 2007) |
| Full of Insights and Inspiration 2009-08-20 |
| By Jean M. Binswanger (New York, NY United States) |
[My review originally appeared in the Thinking Directions Occasional Update, hence the references to interest in thinking skills.]
Many books offer great advice. Some are so powerful they change your mind on issues you consider settled. Very few are so clear you can learn something about thinking just by reading them. *TJ Walker's Secret to Foolproof Presentations* is all three.
At first glance, this book appears to be a compendium of answers to frequently-asked questions (FAQ's) about public speaking. The chapters have titles such as "How can I get over stage fright or nervousness?" and "What do I do if I make a mistake or forget what I am about to say?" Each chapter answers the title's question in a clear, direct way.
But that's where the similarity to a typical FAQ ends.
Though the questions come from different perspectives, the answers all come from TJ Walker's. He's a man on a mission to persuade his readers of one thing: "Don't focus on making a bad impression. Spend your time figuring out how to leave a lasting positive impression." He hits this point in some form in every chapter--without ever being redundant.
In fact, the book as a whole is a deft dramatization of how to respond to the issues of immediate concern to your audience, while still getting *your* message across in a compelling way.
There is something fresh in every chapter. In some cases the advice is familiar (analyze video of yourself) but the argument is strikingly blunt: "Is it painful to watch yourself? Yes. But this is less painful than wasting the time of people you are speaking to because you were boring or hard to follow."
In other cases the advice is surprising. For example, Walker tells you to put no words--zero words--on the Powerpoint slides you show to the audience. But make a second set of slides with bullet points, and give that to them afterwards for reference.
I particularly appreciated how Walker made every suggestion easy to implement. His simple advice for how to find appropriate stories and humor was eye-opening and empowering.
Even if you have no particular interest in improving your communication skills, I recommend you read this book. Because if you're interested in thinking skills (as I presume those on this list are), you're interested in clarity. And for sheer clarity, this book is remarkable. It vividly demonstrates how to use words to make your ideas unmistakably clear and compelling.
Whatever your reason for reading it, don't be surprised if TJ Walker inspires you to improve your presentation skills. Before I read this book, I felt pretty satisfied with my own presentations. I opened up the book hoping to pick up a few extra tips. By the time I finished it (less than 24 hours later), I was filled with insights and inspiration, and passionately committed to taking my presentations to the next level.
Highly recommended.
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| Secret to Foolproof Presentations 2009-08-14 |
| By David Vincent Skocik |
As author of "Practical Public Relations for the Small Business: Tools and Tactics for Competitive Advantage," I readily endorse this as a must-read book for anyone who wants to truly reach an audience.
T.J. reveals the secrets of creating one-on-one communication with an audience regardless of its size. This straightforward, easy to read primer challenges many of the standard assumptions about how to be an effective presenter. The author's decades of speaking experience adds to its tried and true credibility.
As a presenter and moderator who has worked on television for 22 years, I highly recommend this book.
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