Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations (Voices That Matter)

Business & Money

Reynolds, Garr

Skills

New Riders

Garr Reynolds, author of the best-selling book on presentation design and delivery, is back with this newly revised edition of this classic book, Presentation Zen. Showing us there is a better way to reach your audience through simplicity and storytelling, Garr tackles the conventional wisdom of making presentations with slides and shares his approach to designing and delivering successful and provocative presentations. In this new edition, Garr includes fresh examples from which to draw inspiration, and offers techniques for cutting through the noise and distractions of modern life and truly engaging with your audiences in a meaningful way. Combining the solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, Presentation Zen, Third Edition, puts you solidly on the path to creating simpler, more effective presentations that will be appreciated, remembered, and best of all, acted upon. “Presentation Zen changed my life and the lives of my clients. The philosophy and approach so elegantly explained in Garr’s book will inspire your audience. Don’t even think of giving another presentation without it!” Carmine Gallo Author, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs and Talk Like TED “Garr has broken new ground in the way we think about the power of presentations, and more important, has taught an entire generation of communicators how to do a better job. Don’t miss this one.” Seth Godin Legendary presenter and author, This is Marketing “If you care about the quality and clarity of your presentations–and you should–pick up this book, read every page, and heed its wisdom. Presentation Zen is a contemporary classic.” Daniel H. Pink Author, A Whole New Mind and Drive

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)

Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

Computers & Technology

Programming

New Riders Pub

Product Description The Presentation Zen Way is a beautiful Japanese Bento Box-inspired package featuring: a 50-minute DVD video; 168-page, spiral-bound sketchbook for storyboarding your presentations; two pads of Post-it® Notes; two red pencils; and an iStockphoto coupon valued at $300. All of the components of this package are designed to correlate with the concepts Garr Reynolds, the authority on presentation design and delivery, teaches in his popular video, books, and blog. In the DVD, Garr invites viewers to create provocative presentations with solid designs and Zen simplicity. In this personal, one-on-one video, Garr delivers his ideas from his popular book, Presentation Zen, and blog, presentationzen.com, and challenges viewers to go beyond the conventional slide presentation style and think more creatively to achieve simpler, more effective presentations. Within an hour viewers will learn to: <ul>
<li>plan and prepare their presentations, and craft their story with storyboarding techniques </li>
<li>utilize design principles that show viewers to communicate messages more effectively </li>
<li>deliver more meaningful presentations by successfully connecting with audiences. </li>
</ul>This included sketchbook is like a journal for presenters of all types—it’s an analog place to go and sketch out presentation ideas. Presenters will find blank pages for jotting down notes, creating mind maps, or using whatever brainstorming techniques they find helpful. A storyboarding technique presenters often use involves writing down notes onto sticky notes and then arranging them as they build the structure of their presentations. Some of the pages in this sketchbook contain blank boxes that are sized for the Post-it® Notes also included in this package so you can use this technique to storyboard your own presentations. Throughout the sketchbook, users will find quotes from Garr's book Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery to help inspire while preparing and clarifying a presentation's content, purpose, and goals. The iStockphoto coupon is good for 20 free images; plus 20% off 50 pay-as-you-go credits--a $300 value! A Look At The Presentation Zen Way (Click on Images to Enlarge) Click to see the entire The Presentation Zen Way package Click to see a screenshot from the DVD Click to see the included storyboarding sketchbook 
The Presentation Zen Way comes in a unique package, inspired by the beauty and simplicity of a Japanese bento box. With it, author Garr Reynolds invites you to create and deliver provocative presentations with solid designs and Zen simplicity. The package contains the The Presentation Zen Way DVD, a storyboarding sketchbook with pencils and pads of sticky notes, and a valuable iStockphoto coupon. In the personal, one-on-one video, Garr challenges you to go beyond the conventional "slide presentation" style and think more creatively to achieve simpler, more effective presentations. Use the Presentation Zen storyboarding sketchbook to plan and prepare your presentations. Learn to utilize design principles from the video that communicate your message clearly and allow you to connect with your audience. The storyboarding sketchbook has storyboarding pages you can use with the sticky notes, as well as blank pages for brainstorming with inspiring quotes scattered throughout.

The Presentation Zen Way: Video Lessons on Simple Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)

Best-selling author and authority on presentation design and delivery Garr Reynolds invites you to create provocative presentations with solid designs and Zen simplicity. In this personal, one-on-one video, Garr expands on his ideas from his popular book, Presentation Zen, and blog, presentationzen.com, and challenges you to go beyond the conventional slide presentation style and think more creatively to achieve simpler, more effective presentations. Within an hour viewers will learn to: 
<ul>
<li>plan and prepare your presentations, and craft their story with storyboarding techniques.</li> <li>utilize design principles that show viewers to communicate messages more effectively and emotionally.</li> <li>deliver their presentations by successfully connecting with their audience.</li> </ul>
Presentation Zen has won numerous awards, most recently a CINE Golden Eagle Award and a a Silver Telly Award. This is a video DVD. Run time: 50 minutes Languages: English Subtitles: Japanese and Spanish Closed Captioned in English

Presentation Zen: The Video

Pearson/Education

In his internationally acclaimed, best-selling book Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, presentation master Garr Reynolds gave readers the framework for planning, putting together, and delivering successful presentations. Now, he takes us further into the design realm and shows how we can apply time-honored design principles to presentation layouts. Throughout Presentation Zen Design, Garr shares his lessons on designing effective presentations that contain text, graphs, color, images, and video. After establishing guidelines for each of the various elements, he explains how to achieve an overall harmony and balance using the tenets of Zen simplicity. Not only will you discover how to design your slides for more professional-looking presentations, you’ll learn to communicate more clearly and will accomplish the goal of making a stronger, more lasting connection with your audience.

Presentation Zen Design

When we learn to present naked, we reach our audiences by communicating the essence of the message, stripping away all that is unnecessary and embracing the ideas of simplicity, clarity, honesty, integrity, and passion. If "slideware" is used, the slides never steal the show or rise above serving a strong but simple supportive role. The ideas in the presentation may or may not be radical, earth shattering, or new, but there is freshness to the approach and content that makes a lasting impression. In this invaluable resource from the author for the best-selling books Presentation Zen and Presentation Zen Design, you will discover how to get to the core of your message and deliver presentations that are as natural as they are memorable. Whether you are just in the planning stages or need advice for a talk that begins in an hour, you'll find wisdom in The Naked Presenter that you can use to connect deeply with your audience and deliver a great presentation.

The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides

Although he has a laptop or electronic device with him at virtually all times, it is pen and paper that Garr Reynolds uses to privately brainstorm, explore ideas, make lists, and generally sketch out ideas for presentations. As many agree, the act of holding a pen in hand and putting it to paper seems to have a greater, more natural connection to the right brain and allows for a more spontaneous flow and rhythm for visualizing and recording ideas. This analog approach to creating presentations really helps solidify and simplify messages, and it then becomes far easier to lay out those ideas in PowerPoint or Keynote. This storyboarding sketchbook is like a journal for presenters of all types—it’s an analog place to go and sketch out presentation ideas. Presenters will find blank pages for jotting down notes, creating mind maps, or using whatever brainstorming techniques they find helpful. A storyboarding technique presenters often use involves writing down notes onto sticky notes and then arranging them as they build the structure of their presentations. Some of the pages in this sketchbook contain blank boxes that are sized for small sticky notes so you can use this technique to storyboard your own presentations. Throughout the sketchbook, users will find quotes from Garr's book Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery to help inspire while preparing and clarifying a presentation's content, purpose, and goals.

Presentation Zen Storyboarding Sketchbook (Voices That Matter)

Best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds is back in this newly revised edition of his classic, best-selling book, Presentation Zen, in which he showed readers there is a better way to reach the audience through simplicity and storytelling, and gave them the tools to confidently design and deliver successful presentations. In this new edition, Garr gives his readers new, fresh examples to draw inspiration from, with a whole new chapter for those who present on more technical and educational topics based on techniques used by many presenters who give high-level talks at TED and other powerhouse events. Whether the reader is in research, technology, business, or education–this book will show them how to take what could look like a really dry presenation and reinvigorate the material in totally fresh (and sometimes interactive!) ways that will make it memorable and resonate with the audience. Staying true to the mission of the first), Garr combines solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity to help readers along the path to simpler, more effective presentations that will be appreciated, remembered, and best of all, acted upon.

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