Título: The Introverted Presenter: Ten Steps for Preparing and Delivering Successful Presentations
Autor: Richard Tierney
Sinopse: The introvert is a personality type that draws energy from the outside inward. According to standard personality testing assessments, most people are introverts and no group is more introverted than technical professionals. Introverts are congenitally programmed to recoil from the prospect of public speaking with fear and loathing, yet making presentations to expert and non-expert audiences is an inescapable requirement for career advancement in any technical field. Presentation coach Richard Tierney rides to the rescue of fellow introverts in the IT and engineering sectors with The Introverted Presenter—his fail-safe guide to delivering competent presentations, no matter how unsuited by nature you might be to the performing arts.This short book lays out the complete process guaranteed to raise you from a debilitating state of terror and aversion to a comfortable place of clarity, calm, and competence—perhaps even brilliance, if you can train yourself toconvert the free energy of your fear into controlled performance. Tierney repeatedly warns his introvert readers that they risk presentation fiasco if they skip, skimp, or change the order of any of the ten steps he prescribes for thoroughly and efficiently preparing their presentations.The surefire sequence of steps for The Introverted Presenter begins with defining your presentation’s audience and objective. The next step is to write the script of your speech in stages, constructing it on the basis of proven structural rules, cognitive laws, and dramatic tricks. Then you incrementally refine and tighten your script by delivering it iteratively, first in front of a mirror and then in front of increasingly critical test audiences, progressing from your cat to your boss. When you have a well-constructed and sound-tested script in hand and only then, you may create some slides to graft into your script in support of your opening action call and your concluding takeaways, which you commit to memory. Your slides should be limited to the smallest number possible (even zero) and the fewest possible words.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Introverted Presenter: Ten Steps for Preparing and Delivering Successful Presentations”, de Richard Tierney, publicado pela editora Apress, em 2015 e com 100 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Apress
Páginas: 100
Ano: 2015
Edição: 1st ed.
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781484210895
ISBN13: 9781484210895
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Apress costumam oferecer uma experiência de leitura focada em tecnologia e programação, com um tom prático e direto, que privilegia o aprendizado aplicado. O catálogo apresenta obras que vão desde linguagens de programação populares, como Python, C#, Objective-C e Java, até temas mais específicos como desenvolvimento para iOS, frameworks web, inteligência artificial e administração de servidores Linux. Muitas obras adotam um formato didático, com exemplos de código, receitas de solução de problemas e guias passo a passo, que facilitam o entendimento mesmo para leitores que buscam rapidez e objetividade. O ritmo tende a ser funcional, focado em levar o leitor a resultados concretos, com linguagem clara e sem rodeios.
