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Presenting to Boards: Practical Skills for Corporate Presentations Paperback – January 22, 2011

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A book of practical hints and tips for making successful board presentations. Boardroom presentations can gain acceptance of new strategic proposals, make sales, or build shared understanding and common identities. They are important to career success. Board protocols, behaviours, and legal liabilities may be very different from those in executive life. Understanding the boardroom environment is fundamental to presentation success. Most information on presenting is designed to help reluctant presenters to survive their ordeal. Very little is written or taught about how to excel and how to meet and surpass the expectations of highly discerning corporate audiences. Yet that is what boardroom presenters must do. This book provides practical skills that will help you to make your boardroom presentations successful. Written by an internationally acclaimed expert on corporate governance and filled with real life anecdotes and helpful tips, this book is a 'must read' for any executive who aspires to succeed in presenting at the highest corporate level.

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120 pages
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English
Publication date

January 22, 2011
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6 x 0.28 x 9 inches
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1451594062
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978-1451594065
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Julie Garland McLellan is a boardroom expert. As a company director she has been on the receiving end of countless presentations and as an executive she has presented to some of Australia's largest and most important boards. Julie is also a qualified professional speaker and is a highly rated presenter both in the boardroom and the training room. Acknowledged by her audiences as an insightful and motivating speaker she brings highly professional content with an engaging manner to her training and sales presentations. She leaves her audiences with practical skills that will enhance their abilities immediately making a noticeable difference in performance. Julie is one of Australia's leading governance consultants. She is also a professional non-executive director with experience on a range of boards within government and other sectors. She has served on the boards of Melbourne Water Corporation, Bounty Mining, Hats Holdings, Victorian Energy Networks Corporations, City West Water, Victorian Minerals and Energy Council, Melbourne University Engineering Foundation, Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises, Kyoto Energy Park and Hassall & Associates. Julie has an MBA, an Honours Degree in Engineering, a Diploma and an Advanced Diploma in Company Directorship, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 22, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1451594062
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1451594065
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.28 x 9 inches

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Quick Read: Likely to be Helpful to Novice & Experienced Presenters Alike

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2011

Presenting to boards is just like presenting to any other group, right? Wrong. Most boards suffer from attention deficit disorder. Many of the members of most boards that I have encountered won't sit through a presentation of more than a few minutes without disruption. You'll need to focus like a laser on your main points; you must expect to get interrupted and be able to go in whatever direction feedback warrants. Your ability to do so is important both to the board (you wouldn't be on the agenda if it wasn't important) and to your career (don't miss your opportunity to raise your level of importance to the firm).

For those who have never made board presentations, the author provides a very basic primer that will help you to get to know your audience. For those with more experience, McLellan provides organizing principles, both generally around several standard presentation types, as well as quick tips and "tales from the trenches." Although the book lacks depth, most readers will pick up several pointers in a few minutes. Like your own ideal presentation to the board, the author doesn't waste your time but covers the essential highlights.

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S. G. Spence

Concise, sufficient, effective.

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2011

This book is beautifully concise.

You can't say that about many works these days. In anything to do with the Board or Presenting heft seems to be normal.

Therefore the book is extraordinarily useful. It also seems to me complete - there are other places to go for general theory but what's in here is focussed on the actuality of the situation. The reason it's brief is that Julie knows what she is talking about - she is an experienced Board member, board consultant and board trainer and she is also an accomplished presenter and speaker on Board issues.

So the distillation here is exactly and no more than you need to get it right for your next or first Board presentation. It has one of the best summaries of the Board's function that you will find anywhere, so `knowing the audience' is clearly expressed. It also beautifully delivers the critical core advice on presentation skills without the waffle. And it is based on the fact that you and the Board members are human!

I particularly like this latter aspect. Julie is clear about dealing with the stress of presenting, the psychology of directors (and why their `normal' can look strange), the emotional context and the need to get simple physical details right (will your clothes stay on?!). In other words while the theory is very solid, the practicality runs deep.

So, with the brevity comes a warning - don't skim! This is a book in which each word, particularly in the `Top Tips', works hard. The theoretical summaries cover libraries in paragraphs but you get what you need for the context. It will take some effort to deal well with all the items on some of her lists - but she lights the path well. By using the built-in note areas you end up with your personal framework for greatly improving your success in the one event that could lift or halt your career.

What you will need to bring is a good dose of humility, reflection, self-honesty and focussed application - which of course are all requisite to good presentation to any group!

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Andrew P Donovan

Secret Board Business

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2011

Board business is a secretive affair.

The way directors think, what they hold as important, how they see their role and what they think of management are all shrouded by the veil of secrecy that is the inner workings of director's minds and the closed doors of the boardroom.

It is therefore remarkable that until now no one has provided a comprehensive insight into this secret world for those who are, on occasion, admitted into it.

Luckily, Julie Garland McLellan has remedied this situation with her latest book.

Presenting to Boards provides an honest and insightful account of what boards want when people "present" to them, giving a series of very practical and personal advice to board level presenters.

McLellan's overriding message is one of confidence. Confidence that if you are let in the door in the first place half your work is done.

In what may be a somewhat radical notion to managers, but an obvious one to directors, having already gained the credibility to get into the room, directors now want you to facilitate a vibrant discussion, not regurgitate the facts. The more you can learn how to be a facilitator (with facts at your finger tips) the more you will win the favour of the board.

In what is an otherwise comprehensive and easy read on the subject, McLean could perhaps have gone further in advising boardroom guests on how to best understand the individual needs of directors.

There are the pedants with an insatiable desire for detail, the nervys for who risk management is at near obsessive levels, the people people who search constantly for the implications for culture and reputation, while we all know the numbers chrunchers who just want to see the bottom line. A detour into director behavioural types and meeting their information needs could add further richness to an already rich text.

This small improvement not withstanding, both neophyte and Neanderthal board presenters will benefit from this rich resource of insight and practicality that opens the door and sheds some light on the inner sanctum of the secret society known as the board.

Andrew Donovan
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

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Jose Manuel Arnaiz

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Reviewed in Spain on June 5, 2016

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content looks good, but...a large part of the ebook is in red letters, which I find inconvenient. Personal opinion. thats all

Robyn FitzRoy

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Reviewed in Australia on July 7, 2015

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Useful due to Australian context, regulatory environment etc.
Practical and short enough to digest quickly and utilise

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