The Say It With Charts Complete Toolkit
Published on 16. December 2006
Book
312 pages
978-0-07-147470-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Complete Do-It-Yourself Kit for Creating Powerful, Interactive Presentations
Master presenter Gene Zelazny has shown thousands of professionals around the world how to design and deliver successful presentations. Now, he combines his bestselling Say It With Charts with his Say It With Charts Workbook into one comprehensive volume-complete with an all-new CD that lets you download and implement Zelazny's potent PowerPoint charts, graphs, and visuals!
This first-of-its-kind Toolkit reveals time-tested tips for putting your message in visual form and translating data into eye-catching, persuasive charts and multimedia presentations. Zelazny offers step-by-step advice on selecting and preparing the right charts, emphasizing key points, and encouraging your audience become active participants. He also shows you how to use today's digital technologies to create easy-to-follow, attention-grabbing visuals. Nowhere else will you find such comprehensive, authoritative information on:
The different types of charts for any presentationAudience-tested techniques for communicating informationHands-on recommendations for lettering size, color, appropriate chart types, and moreTechniques for dramatic eVisuals using animation, scanned images, sound video, and links to pertinent websitesTactics for customizing graphics to specific audiences
Master presenter Gene Zelazny has shown thousands of professionals around the world how to design and deliver successful presentations. Now, he combines his bestselling Say It With Charts with his Say It With Charts Workbook into one comprehensive volume-complete with an all-new CD that lets you download and implement Zelazny's potent PowerPoint charts, graphs, and visuals!
This first-of-its-kind Toolkit reveals time-tested tips for putting your message in visual form and translating data into eye-catching, persuasive charts and multimedia presentations. Zelazny offers step-by-step advice on selecting and preparing the right charts, emphasizing key points, and encouraging your audience become active participants. He also shows you how to use today's digital technologies to create easy-to-follow, attention-grabbing visuals. Nowhere else will you find such comprehensive, authoritative information on:
The different types of charts for any presentationAudience-tested techniques for communicating informationHands-on recommendations for lettering size, color, appropriate chart types, and moreTechniques for dramatic eVisuals using animation, scanned images, sound video, and links to pertinent websitesTactics for customizing graphics to specific audiences
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
80 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 188 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-147470-2 (9780071474702)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Gene Zelazny is the Director of Visual Communications for McKinsey & company, where he works with the professional consulting staff to create, design, and rehearse presentations. Zelazny frequently shares his ideas at many of the world's major business schools, including Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Kellog, INSEAD, London Business School, Oxford, Sloan, Stanford, Tuck, and Wharton. His bestselling Say it with Charts has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Content
Section I Choosing Charts
Determine Your Message
Identify the Comparison
Select the Chart Form
Section II Using Charts
Section III Say it With Concepts and Metaphors
Visual Concepts
Visual Metaphors
Section IV Play it With Charts
Index
Determine Your Message
Identify the Comparison
Select the Chart Form
Section II Using Charts
Section III Say it With Concepts and Metaphors
Visual Concepts
Visual Metaphors
Section IV Play it With Charts
Index