Presentation Basics

Presentation Basics tackles a subject that often frightens and sometimes incapacitates many otherwise confident people giving a presentation. The book’s simple, step-by-step approach guides readers through the entire process from preparation, to creating the right environment, to recovery when things go wrong in a presentation (an inevitable occurrence for even the most prepared an confident presenter). Readers will find 20 solid suggestions on improving presentation skills and a full chapter on where to get more information on the subject of presentation.

The book also features a series of recurring icons that function as a learning road map. These icons tell you what to expect in each chapter, provide helpful reminders and important notes about making presentations, and give you 21 basic rules that will help ensure that your presentation are successful.

Presentation Basics in the first book in the new ASTD Training Basics series and is designed to be a training lifeline to help organizations deal with the reality of quickly changing jobs, roles, and responsibilities.

About the Author

Robert J. Rosania is a vice president and delivery consultant for Manchester, a human capital management consulting firm. He is a nationally recognized training and development professional with more than 20 years' experience working with individuals and organizations to improve performance, manage change, and develop effective career management strategies.

Rosania wrote The Credible Trainer: Create Value for Training, Get Respect for Your Ideas, and Boost Your Career (ASTD, 2000), a book that tied for the highest rating given by Training magazine for books reviewed in 2001. He's also a major contributor to an ASTD series, In Action: Improving Performance in Organizations, and he's written articles for Hospitals Magazine and Training & Development.

In addition, he has appeared on a number of Philadelphia radio programs speaking on career development and work-life balance issues and has been a guest presenter at national meetings for the American Dietitian Association, ASTD, and the Training Directors' Forum. As an adjunct instructor he has taught psychology at Mercer County Community College, as well as leadership and motivation at Penn State University-Ogontz. Furthermore, he's appeared as a guest lecturer for the graduate program in training and development at St. Joseph's University.

Rosania earned a master of arts degree in student personnel services in higher education (counseling) from Seton Hall University and a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from the University of Dayton.