The best way to review a business book is to give it to someone who isn't a specialist in that area and see if it's worth the time spent flicking through it. So many thanks to Julie Roberts, Professional Services Manager at an IT company who pinched my copy of ‘Killer Presentations’ to help her write an internal presentation.
Julie’s Review
I was given less than a week to prepare a presentation to the whole company on my department and just five minutes to get my message across. I had started by using the company templates with the standard, intro, the departmental structure and then a few slides with some bullet points in them. I had two days to go and couldn’t sleep, it was awful.
Killer presentations was easy to read, helped me to organise my mind; what message did I actually want to get across in 5 minutes and how should I structure it. I used it to write my Powerpoint slides and it filled me with confidence that I was producing a really good presentation which also took away some of my nerves.
It's organised into easy to read chapters and I really enjoyed the quotes at the beginning of each chapter. The initial quote ‘the human brain is a wonderful thing, it starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public’ was a life saver when I forgot what I wanted to say during my presentation, by the time I had delivered this quote and got a laugh I was able to carry on without stumbling again.
This book is a must for anyone using PowerPoint in their presentations, it shows you how to really get your message across, when to use graphics, what type of graphics work best and about the secret button that is hidden away. Highly recommended.
Killer Presentations Nicholas B Oulton
Published by Howtobooks
www.howtobooks.co.uk
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