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Dec 2019
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525: Delivering Presentations with Prese...

How to be Awesome at Your Job
About this episode

Christine Clapp shares best practices for preparing and delivering engaging presentations.


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) The most common mistake in presentation preparation. 

2) The five S’s of confident speakers. 

3) How to eliminate filler words. 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep525 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT CHRISTINE — 

Christine Clapp is the author of Presenting at Work: A Guide to Public Speaking in Professional Contexts and the president of Spoken with Authority, a Washington, D.C.-based presentation skills consultancy that includes a team of six expert coaches. Through training programs and coaching engagements, Christine and her team help professionals at law firms, corporations, associations, and non-profit organizations build the confidence to connect and the capacity to lead.

Christine holds two degrees in communication: a bachelor’s degree from Willamette University, and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also taught public speaking to undergraduate and graduate students at The George Washington University for thirteen years.

• Christine’s book: Presenting at Work: A Guide to Public Speaking in Professional Contexts, with Bjørn F. Stillion Southard

• Tool: Speech Outline Tool

• Christine’s website: SpokenWithAuthority.com

• Christine’s Twitter: @christineclapp

• Christine’s LinkedIn: Christine Clapp


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Article: “How the Voice Persuades” by Alex B. Van Zant and Jonah Berger

• Book: Rhetoric by Aristotle

• Book: “Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte

• Book: slide:ology: The ARt and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte

• Book: Full Voice: The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence by Barbara McAfee

• Book: Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds by Carmine Gallo

• Book: TED Talks: The Official Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson

• Organization: Toastmasters International

• Sketch: Shy Ronnie, Saturday Night Live (NSFW)

• Previous episode: 505: How to Make Data Inspire Action with Nancy Duarte

• Previous episode: 307: Persuasive Speaking with Carmine Gallo


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