Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage & Get Results

  • 4h 19m
  • David Booth, Deborah Shames, Peter Desberg
  • McGraw-Hill
  • 2010

Imagine if every presentation received rapt attention and buy-in from the audience.

Start getting these results with Own the Room, featuring the renowned Eloqui Method-innovative techniques that leave boring behind.

Research shows a memorable presentation is a combination of stirring your audience's emotions while appealing to its intellect. This team of authors has developed techniques that tap into the persuasive, expressive aspects of presentations-employed over the past ten years by Fortune 500 companies such as TD Ameritrade, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Merrill Lynch, Siemens, and Pfizer.

This effective method brings you:

  • An award-winning actor who applies performance techniques from the stage to engage and move an audience
  • A television and film director who demonstrates how to craft and deliver your message with authority, credibility, and authenticity
  • A psychologist who specializes in memory and stage fright and reveals how to overcome fear and activate an audience's attention and memory

Own the Room is written by a unique set of authors with the expertise perfect for creating vivid narratives. Own the Room shares how to excite your audience's emotions and intellect. And Own the Room will give you a communication toolkit to make any presentation lively, compelling, and memorable.

About the Authors

David Booth is a professional theater director and actor. He taught acting at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts.

Deborah Shames is an award-winning film producer and director. She has years of experience directing and producing several independent films and over sixty corporate training and educational videos.

Peter Desberg is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and University Professor. He has authored 18 books and is a nationally renowned presenter and keynote speaker at professional conferences.

In this Book

  • Intention—The Driving Force
  • Roles
  • Premiere—How to Open
  • Finale—How to Close
  • For Example—The Power of Narrative
  • Stage Fright
  • Presenting in Teams
  • Physical Grammar—Movement as Punctuation
  • PowerPoint Revival
  • Being Memorable
  • The Final Word
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