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Your Perfect Presentation: Speak in Front of Any Audience Anytime Anywhere and Never Be Nervous Again Paperback – March 17, 2014

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"Bill's Own the Room methodology has helped countless speakers play at a higher level."
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Overcome Your Fear and Deliver Dynamic Presentations

Your style is perfect for you. Public speaking coach to the C-suite Bill Hoogterp shows you proven tips, techniques, and exercises to amplify your effectiveness as a speaker and communicator. He explains how the brain processes information, what people respond to, and how to hold the audience in the palm of your hand.

Great public speaking can be learned. Hoogterp's unique method turns fear into fun and shows you how to be your natural, authentic, unique self--and deliver your perfect presentation for any audience each and every time.

"A smart guide." --Parade magazine

"Improving your ability to communicate will increase your potential to have impact on the world, no matter what you do. Bill Hoogterp and the Own the Room team will show you how―and they'll make it fun." -- Reid Hoffman, cofounder and chairman of LinkedIn and coauthor of The Start-Up of You

"Bill Hoogterp is one of the best public speaking coaches in the world today. He helps you become the star." -- Joichi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab

"A must-have reference for anyone who wants to be a better leader in any business. . . the ticket to own whatever room you're in." -- from the foreword by Maggie Murphy, editor in chief of Parade magazine

“Love Bill Hoogterp’s new book, Your Perfect Presentation, that helps readers learn to thrive in front of any audience.” -- Arianna Huffington

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Bill Hoogterp is one of the most sought after public speaking coaches in the world. He developed Own the Room, a proven methodology that helps business professionals learn to become effective speakers in a very short period of time.

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Bill Hoogterp is one of the most sought after public speaking coaches in the world. He developed Own the Room, a proven methodology that helps business professionals learn to become effective speakers in a very short period of time.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; 1st edition (March 17, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071825002
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071825009
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.65 x 9 inches

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Robin A. Kahn

A Fantastic Guide to Becoming an Excellent Public Speaker

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2014

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Imagine, you are facing an audience of 1,000 people -- you don't know anyone in the audience -- you're speaking on a topic that you're not expert in, but the keynote speaker's flight was delayed and you were suddenly asked to speak.

Imagine you have a perfect opening, an easy and fun opening. You have several ideas about how to engage your audience throughout your talk and a fantastic closing -- a call to action that will inspire people. Imagine if all of that came to you in just a few moments -- a flash of inspiration.

Bill's OWN THE ROOM methodology teaches you that and so much more. And it's fun. No longer is it enough to get up and lecture with power point. Today's audiences require more of a speaker -- you have to be in conversation with your audience -- an interactive exchange. The tools even helped me stop with the dreaded "um's and ah's and basically" when I'm speaking. I feel much more in control of what I'm going to say and how I say it.

Bill's ideas are both simple and innovative. I highly recommend this book because I have studied and work with Bill and I know how powerful his techniques are. I went from being an insecure speaker who was so afraid to address an audience -- to a much more confident and comfortable speaker, who loves the opportunity to own the room and help others tell their stories.

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Rob Kirk

Some great tips on dealing with nervousness and audience involvement but ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2016

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Some great tips on dealing with nervousness and audience involvement but I found the book disjointed and somewhat random. The author has a lot to say and he has some great experience but the book covers so many topics that I feel it was hard to focus. I took plenty of notes, which is why I gave 4 stars, but this book has motivated me to find better "public speaking" books.

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Glen

Great guide for learning how to communicate

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2016

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Are you ready to do a presentation? Just met the CEO in the elevator? Asked to do a keynote? How should I structure my presentation, pitch or keynote.

This book will definitely help you prepare. I have been presenting from years and four and found this book very informative.

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Presentation tool book

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2018

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Great book for you to read when you want to prepare a presentation.

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Nessie Shaw

clear, concise, powerful

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2014

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I loved this book. It takes the essential elements of a powerful presentation and explains them
concisely and clearly. A must-read for anyone who gives any sort of presentation.

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ServantofGod

Informative. Well organized and written. Helpful for all!

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2015

This may not be the perfect book to meet everyone's presentation needs but it certainly helps green hands to stand against stage flight, and veterans to perform even better. Informative, well organized and written. In short, recommended!

p.s. Below please find some favorite passages of mine for your reference.
Dan and Chip Heath compare our emotional side to an elephant, and our rational side to someone riding the elephant. Should the six ton elephant and the rider ever disagree on which direction to go, the rider is going to lose every time. Pg13
The first three types of caring (doing a good job, the audience, your content) are strengths. The fourth one (how you are perceived) - wipes out the other three. Pg22
When you stop thinking that you are the focus of your presentation and shift your focus to the audience, not only will you overcome your nervousness, but you will be much more successful in connecting with your audience. Pg25
You want to know the worst truth? Nobody really cares. Can anyone think of a comment you have heard at work in the last four weeks that was said so well or so poorly that it actually affected you? Pg28
They don't care about how you deliver; they just care that you do, in fact, deliver. Pg28
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives. - Lilly Walters pg33
The sweetest sound in any language is the sound of your own name. - Dale Carnegie pg41
To hold a name in your memory, use it in a sentence. Each time you do this, you're making another loop in the string until you finally tie a knot. Pg42
Silence is the most powerful tool you will ever have as a speaker. Pg48
Open with a scene. The first words out of your mouth should be a story, a question, a problem, a statistic, or a scene that pulls your audience into your presentation. Pg66
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. - Mark Twain pg83
Once in a while, you get a statement disguised as a question....Your feedback, "What do you think?" pg118
It's natural to want to show the audience how smart you are. It's normal. But when you let the people in the audience show you how smart they are, you've got them eating out of the palm of your hand....give them a meaty problem to solve. Pg119
Stories are almost pure pictures and emotions....Stories are about characters and conflicts. Pg126
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they better hit at something high. - Henry David Thoreau pg146
Notice little things, and try new things. Pg153
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because they want to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower pg179
Great leaders ask questions that lead the individual to solve the problem or create the opportunity...hence learning takes place. - David Ball pg181
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. - Phil Jackson pg188
The fool wonders. The wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli pg199
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George Patton pg211
To be good is expected. To be better is the challenge. - Christi Pedra pg233
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. - Dorothy Sarnoff pg241
A product isn't sold on its features, but on the problems that those features solve for the customer. Ask yourself, what am I selling? One of the keys to effective sales is for you to believe that you are doing your customer a favor, not the other way around. Pg258

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Amy

Probably fine for public speaking, but terrible science

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2014

This is the first review I have ever posted on Amazon and only because this book infuriated me. I give this book two stars because I'm sure it may help people become better public speakers. However, this author perpetuates total myths about the human brain. As someone working towards my PhD in neuroscience, I thought this book would help me become better at giving academic talks. However, I simply could not get past the authors' use of "science" to back up his statements. He honestly said that half the brain is used for processing visual images. More than once. Where did he even get that information? Also, his entire interpretation of mirror neurons is totally misunderstood. There is already enough misinformation about the brain out there. We don't need more. This book would be perfectly fine without any talk of the brain. The author should stick with public speaking and leave the neuroscience to scientists.

Here's a great, short explanation of common myths about the brain (including the mirror neuron myth that Bill Hoogterp perpetuates): http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/opinion/sunday/three-myths-about-the-brain.html?_r=3

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Marija

loved the content and the style

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2014

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Loved the whit and the short, extra simple tasks... Everything is made simple and easy to grasp, yet the content is solid and highly valuable. Great value book!

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