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More than Just a Pointer. It Is 3 Presentation Devices in One WIDE POINTER combines the features of the presentation controller, wireless mouse and laser pointer into one ergonomic device. With WIDE POINTER, you don't need to stand beside your notebook PC or have an additional person to assist you, nor do you need to aim at the receiver of the remote control. Excellent 2.4 GHz RF technologies enable the user to control the presentation wirelessly up to 100 feet (30 meters) away indoors. It is a USB plug-and-play device with no additional software required. Here Is what You Will Get in the Wide Pointer Pack:     Everything You Need: Transmitter, Receiver, Battery, Case, Pouch, User Manual Regular price is $149.95- Order now for a $30 saving- Just $119

Five Barriers to Effective Presentations and How to Overcome Them Presentations are taking a more central role in companies today. An excellent presentation can get you a job, an accelerated career path, a promotion, more visibility in a company, and more company profitability with increased customers. Yet despite the large number of PowerPoint presentations people give at work, not everyone is happy with quality and impact of their own presentations. In a new survey by Wilder and Bajaj, only 22 percent of respondents said they are "very satisfied" that their presentations convey the messages they intend to send. 5 Common Barriers to Effective Presentations Barrier #1: Excessive Length: When asked what they would change about their presentations if given the chance, 88% said they would provide less information and shorten their presentation. Barrier #2: Excessive Preparation Time: When asked how much time is spent deciding what to put in presentations, 58 percent of the professionals surveyed said they spend more than three hours for each 30-minute talk. . Barrier #3: Lack of subject-relevant images and graphs: When asked, "What can your company do to help you improve your presentation quality?" 33 percent of the people surveyed said, "give me more effective PowerPoint slides to use" Barrier #4 Failure to Rehearse: Making a confident, credible presentation takes more than fancy graphics; it takes practice, practice, practice! Barrier #5: Failure to Systematically Gauge Audience Feedback: When asked, "What would it take for you to be satisfied with your presentation performance?" the survey respondents in our survey consistently answered "audience feedback." The Solution: Pre-Built Presentation Outlines Clearly, there is a dire need for tools for building more effective presentations in far less time. By this we do not mean more fancy-looking backgrounds. We mean effective presentations that are logically organized in a manner the audience can process and understand. Take a look below at Presentations In A Hurry - a good tool for preparing your presentations..

Presentations In A Hurry: Create an organized, professional presentation in half the time Are you spending nights and weekends slaving over PowerPoint presentations? Presentations In A Hurry will help you regain your life and get back to your business. Presentations in a Hurry: 26 Formats That Persuade CD PowerPoint shells covering 26 of the most common presentation scenarios, from problem analysis, communicating bad news, Investor Relations, New Project Proposal and Product Launch to Project Progress Report, fund raising, and many other topics. Simply follow the content recommendations and, once you drop in the text, your presentation will be complete. Every shell also includes a template design, plus custom graphics and appropriate imagery. Save hours of time creating your slide presentations. More importantly, they will look professional and enhance your confidence while talking. Why do you need Presentations in a Hurry? Your challenge as a presenter is to organize the data so the audience understands and agrees to take specific action. If you are like most people, you were never trained to organize data - knowing what to leave out, putting it in easily understandable chunks, and showing it graphically. Too many presenters feel frustrated because they know their presentations are poorly organized, visually cluttered, and hard to follow. Do you want to use PowerPoint like a pro? With this system, anyone can create presentations that really harness the amazing toolkit within PowerPoint. Even people with little or no experience will be able to create carefully organized, attractive presentations that hold their audiences' attention. And because these presentation shells walk you through the process so quickly, they free up your time to focus on what you do best.

How Will Presentations In A Hurry Benefit You? Time savings: Free up your time to get back to your business. Increased productivity: Raise your productivity by focusing on the right things. More confidence: Increase your confidence with focused, well-designed, high-quality presentations. Audience appreciation: When your audience can easily follow your train of thought in a presentation, they will stay interested and be able to make decisions based on your talk. Carefully chosen, sophisticated graphical designs illustrate key concepts and keep your audience's attention. Cutting out unnecessary details: Don't present information your audience does not want to see or hear! Learn how to eliminate it. Presentation Shell Topics Category Review Change Proposal Communicate the Bad News Company Overview Company Strategic Analysis Convince People of a Problem General Format Identify the Problem Investor Relations New Project Proposal Influence Potential Problem Analysis Product Launch Project Progress Report Recommend an Alternative Research Assay Satisfying Our Customers Sell to Customer Interests Share Information Strategy Recommendation Teach Skills Technical Technical Selling Work Update Non-Profit Fund Raising Program Introduction Each Presentations in a Hurry topic has two PowerPoint files The presentation file includes 10 to 15 slides that organize your content. Graphical images help you display what you want to say. Besides the professionally designed backgrounds, every file has a plain dark and a plain light background to use with diagrams and charts. Notes on several slides suggest the best way to design a powerful presentation. Every topic gives you a slide to define your audience objective. By filling it out before you create your slides, you will include only the information needed to reach your presentation's objective. You won't spend time inputting information of little interest to your audience. The "how-to" file tells you when to use this shell and shows you a filled out audience-objective slide. You can read advice on how to create slides and how to deliver an effective presentation on this topic. You also see 10 Delivery Tips that will remind you of best practices for presenters. Order Presentation In A Hurry for $99.95

Slides That Win: The Ultimate Tool to Create Great PowerPoint Presentations There is not another product like Slides That Win on the market. Compare and use over 300 before-and-after PowerPoint slide examples. Save hours of time to create professional looking slides that achieve results for your presentations. Slides That Win was actually created using PowerPoint so you can replicate and use the examples. Why was it created? Too many presenters show slides that detour the audience from understanding the presentation's message. When you apply the ideas in this CD, you will have a clear road map to creating successful, compelling presentation slides. No more detours! That means the audience is more likely to like and go along with the presentation's message. Read more below..

How will Slides That Win benefit me? Copy and use the designs on the CD. Create professional-looking slides. Save hours creating slides. Give confident presentations. You will also get free backgrounds from Jennifer Rotondo of Creative Minds, free presentation and design articles, and PowerPlugs examples. How is the CD Organized? There are 6 files: Use the Slide Master Plan a color scheme Organize your content Get rid of sentences Easy on the animations Add-on PowerPlugs examples How does it work? Open one of the Slides That Win files. It opens in PowerPoint. Read a guideline. See examples of what to do and not to do. Instantly apply the tips and tricks to your presentation. When you like an example, you can copy and paste it into your presentation. Order below..

What Will I Really Learn from Slides That Win? You'll learn to compare over 300 before-and-after PowerPoint slide examples, understanding what makes an effective slide. Second, you'll get Design Tips, PowerPoint Tips and Delivery Tips. Claudyne Wilder, author of Point, Click & Wow! and The Presentations Kit: 10 Steps for Selling Your Ideas! and Jennifer Rotondo, Microsoft Certified PowerPoint Expert, have combined their twenty years of presentation experience into this powerful CD. Order Slides That Win for $79.00

Invite Slides-That-Win Co-Creator Presentation Consultant Claudyne Wilder to Train Your Staff Acclaimed speaker, coach, published author of several books on presenting, and co-creator of Slides That Work, Claudyne Wilder is a recognized authority on the art of presentations. Claudyne coaches executives and professionals to help them develop, design, and deliver presentations that get results. Her unique consulting style has worked for industry leaders including Fidelity Investments, The Gillette Company, Mercury Computer, The Nature Conservancy, and BASF, among others. Many global enterprises invite her to deliver her "Winning Presentations" seminar or lincese it for their own training needs.

The Presentation Game: Turn ANY PowerPoint Presentation Into an Exciting GAME Turn ANY PowerPoint Presentation into a TRAINING GAME with this unique Excel based application. It's as easy as 1-2-3 to export your slides into this exciting tool which converts your PowerPoint presentation into an exciting game. With the Excel TGI Presentation Game, you can actually score key discussion points, add intriguing questions to your slides, and award points for correct answers. Get creative and turn your presentation into an exciting and fun game! The game also has sound effects, automatic scoring, time keeper, and allows up to 8 teams to play. This program is totally unlike anything else. It is not a question This is a product that takes slides from YOUR PowerPoint presentation and puts them into a game format. It also has many other features that help you to create many different types of games from your PPT slides. We have designed this product to be very flexible in concept and application. If you use PowerPoint presentations as part of your main job, you know the limitations. Too many slides or too much information leads to "POWERPOINT BURNOUT OR OVERLOAD". This is a recognized problem. The Presentation Game is the solution. It will keep your people involved in your presentation because they will be playing a game while they are learning. Purchase the Presentation Game on a CD for just $74.95

Use PeP to Evaluate and Boost the Effectiveness of Presentations Throughout Your Organization Your presentations can make or break your career. Improving the effectiveness of your presentations, and those of your team members, can go a long way toward helping you achieve more dramatic results. And now there is a quantifiable way to assess and improve the effectiveness of your presentations in all formats: PeP: The Reproducible, Customizable, Presentation Evaluation Profile for your entire team. Based on over twenty years of experience in the presentations, communications, and training fields, we developed PeP to be an easy to use, self-scoring, and 360 degree others' scoring tool that delivers instant results revealing the degree of effectiveness of your presentations and the presentations of others, and much more. How PeP Will Dramatically Improve Your Presentations PeP consists of questions covering the 25 most critical aspects of presentations development and delivery. From preparation and planning, to purpose, messages and messenger, to the use of aides and influencing techniques. PeP enables you to evaluate your own presentation PeP uses a 360 format to give you the benefit of discovering how others see and evaluate your presentation. PeP enables you to quickly identify the areas that need improvements and guides you on how to do it. PeP enables you to keep track of your improvements, in numbers, until you master the art of presentations at its best. PeP also reveals your Blind Spot regarding your presentation's delivery, style, and effectiveness. PeP identifies the gap between the way you perceive your presentation and the way others actually respond to your presentations. This revelation is the most useful insight you can get regarding your own presentation effectiveness. PeP is easy and fast to use, takes about 15 minutes to complete for each user. PeP will guide you through the necessary steps toward significantly improving your presentation development and delivery. PeP comes with a Presentation Planning and Outline Creation Template that enables you to quickly create a presentation following the outline and steps provided. PeP is delivered to you in an electronic format (MS Word) so that you can print as many copies of it as you need to evaluate and improve the presentations of all your team members, managers, or trainees. The presentation skills of your entire team, department, or organizations can be evaluated, measured, tracked and improved for a small one time investment. Who Can Benefit from PeP? Managers presenting to their staff / Sales professionals / Trainers / Teachers / Educators / Communicators / Public Speakers / Lawyers / Public Officials / Politicians / Teams making presentations. PeP is delivered in an electronic format (MS Word). A Complete File of Reproducible PeP (Self) and Three (Others) Profiles, plus a Presentation Planning Template, and a User's Guide for $39.95

10 Presentation Skills Booklets $50.00 Not enough time . . . No budget . . . Too many people to train... No more excuses! Use these Skill-Building Booklets to improve your employee's performance on 30 important competencies. Simple but complete. Each Booklet provides an individual with a thorough overview, techniques, and methods to improve in each competency. The skills learned by the individual can be actualized through use of a unique application scenario that is included with each Booklet. Train employees for $5 or less per person... 10 Presentation Skills Booklets Code...12PPRS/ $50.00

Presentation Skills Customizable Workshop in Word Template CD-ROM $179.95 This fully reproducible and customizable workshop is designed for employees in the organization who are responsible for giving presentations to internal or external customers. All the information and exercises can be easily applied to work-related situations. Presentation Skills is designed to be facilitated in up to two-days, or if you prefer, in a series of short-term meetings. Participants will learn to: Improve the quality of presentations through better use of the voice, eyes, gestures, posture and movement; Engage audiences mentally and physically; Use a presentation framework that ensures audience members know the goals and objectives for their presentation; Generate immediate interest in their presentation; Use their skills and creativity to maintain the interest of audience members; Use visual aids such as the flip chart and overhead projector in a more effective manner; Use a podium in more formal presentations; Give "group" or "team" presentations; Skills covered include: Understanding the Two Key Roles of Effective Presenters; Developing Your Voice; Using Eye Contact, Gestures, Posture and Movement for Maximum Impact; Preparing Concise, Hard-Hitting and Memorable Presentations; Defining Meaningful Objectives for Presenter and Audiences Alike; Creating Opening Statements that Grab the Audience; Designing the Body to Support your Objectives and Opening Statements; Successfully Closing the Presentation; Giving Podium Presentations; Handling Questions from the Audience; Effectively Using Overhead Projectors and Transparencies; Identifying Blocks to Successful Performance. Word 2000 Custom Version CD-ROM: Using the power of Microsoft Word 2000, you can modify, change, edit, delete, import, export, copy, paste, add color, logos, clip art, fonts, etc., to this program, just as you would any Word document! On the CD is an original template of the Participant's Workbook and Facilitator's Guide. This CD can be used in any IBM compatible computer with Windows 95/98/NT and Microsoft Word already loaded. Presentation Skills Workshop Template CD-ROM/ Code BD-PS/ $179.95

Flip Chart Magic: building and using effective flip charts in your presentations Flip Chart Magic takes you step-by-step through the process of building and using effective flip charts in training sessions. Divided into three sections with color coded pages (Need to Know / Nice to Know / Where to Find), the book comes with its own set of flip chart markers so that you can immediately begin applying the concepts and principles presented. Flip Chart Magic is literally "A Seminar In A Book!" The front half of the book is a more basic course and the back half of the book is a more advanced course on the subject of effective flip chart use. Flip Chart Magic also contains a "Bonus Section" with seventeen transparency masters for combining the overhead projector with the flip chart to increase its effectiveness even more! Includes a Mr. Sketch® Scented Marker four-pack, with markers in red, green, blue, and yellow. Order Now $39.95

The Presenter's Twin Guides to Powerful Presentations If you are serious about creating and delivering powerful presentations then you must have this two-book set designed to give you, in a very concise format, everything you need. The first book is The Manager's Pocket Guide to Public Presentations by Steve Gladis, Ph.D. It is an indispensable reference for managers and executives who find themselves in the often frightening position of having to give a public presentation. The book is a compendium of tips and techniques that will help you learn the survival tactics of public speaking. A simple, quick read, based on accepted theory and best practices, it is also a confidence builder that will help you overcome anxiety over public speaking. The second book is "101 Leadership Actions for Effective Presentations." Upgrade your leadership skills quickly and easily—and produce results in your organization with a lot less effort. Each book in this collection focuses on a specific area of leadership and managerial effectiveness and offers 101 actions you can accomplish today to improve your impact. The books are easy-to-read and written by experts with real-world experience. Packed with involving activities that encourage thought and action, the books offer techniques that have been tried and proven effective in Fortune 500 companies. Read each title from cover to cover or one action-at-a-time. Either way, you are sure to discover new and stimulating ways to unleash your best effort as a leader. Organize your presentation thoughts . . . present your ideas with impact . . . manage yourself and your audience. These 101 actions will help you overcome "presentation-dread." Get ideas on how to make your main point compelling, practice with tape recorders and video recorders, use memory joggers, create slides, and more. The two books together $19.95

Want to Reduce Your Stress Before Presenting? Breathe! "One of the things that frequently goes first during a stressful (or anticipated stressful) presentations is the presenter's breathing," says Dr. Ollie Malone, Ph.D. in his book "101 Leadership Actions for Effective Presentations." (See below.) Dr. Malone advises the presenter to "practice deep, belly breaths in the space where you will be presenting." "The impact of full breaths on a presenter's overall comfort level is significant. Breathing deeply (five to six breaths should be adequate) helps your body feel more relaxed and focused. Breathing also serves to relieve some of the bodily tension you might be feeling," he suggests.

High Impact Presentations: A Masters Series Video with Master Trainer Bob Pike - Free Preview High Impact Presentations is a three parts Masters Series video that will deliver clear and simple tools for adding power and impact to presentations. Bob Pike, an expert on delivering high impact and high energy presentations, leads this three-part video series. He explains to the learners that they are the magic in their presentations. If they prepare, practice and involve participants, they can get the results they’re looking for. Master Trainer Bob Pike presents this three-part series to a live audience. His presentations include: Part I—Effective Openings and Closings; Part II—Presentations, Springboards and Deadly Sins; and Part III—How To Use Questions. Key Training Points: -- Present your content as well as you know it / Utilize different types of openings and closings / Establish credibility with your audience / Use eye contact effectively / Create interest in your presentation / Involve and answer questions appropriately / Learn the 10 deadly sins that presenters should avoid. Length: Part I: 27 min; Part II: 19 min; Part III: 16 min./ Product Code: AM0051/ Purchase for $495.00 RENTAL $120.00

Life IS a Series of Presentations: Inspire, Inform & Influence. Anytime. Anywhere. A Training Video - Free Preview The best way to cut through the clutter is to make your point–quickly and effectively. Based on the book by author Tony Jeary (Mr. Presentation), Life IS a Series of Presentations demonstrates how to focus and execute your communication so that every time you present an idea, a message, a speech, or even conduct a meeting, you will gain the skills necessary to maximize your daily interactions. The course follows a series of easy-to-use steps with the P.O.I.N.T. model, enabling participants to inspire, inform, and influence others confidently and persuasively. Ultimately, employees will establish credibility, improve working relationships, increase efficiency and effectiveness, improve job and personal satisfaction, and more. After viewing this video, employees will know how to: Explain why work (and life) is a series of “presentations” Identify the three categories of presentations: Inspire, Influence, and Inform Articulate why and how the P.O.I.N.T. model is effective Apply the steps of the P.O.I.N.T. model in common presentation situations, including e-mail, voice-mail, live phone conversations, one-on-one, small group/team Demonstrate confidence and persuasiveness when making presentations The P.O.I.N.T. Model: P - Prepare / O - Outline Intent / I - Involve Audience / N - Narrow Objectives and Focus / T - Tailor Presentation Throughout Program Includes: 24 Minute video program available in DVD or VHS / Facilitator Guide with 1-hr, 4-hr, and 1-day (8-hr) agenda options / Reproducible Participant Materials / Reproducible Self-Study Workbook For a Free Preview Call: 973-427-3004 or email: service@communicationideas.com VHS: Lease/Purchase: $795 New! DVD: Lease/Purchase: $995

Learn Presentation Development and Delivery Skills Online: 90 Day Access for $29.95 One of the biggest fears for most people is speaking in public. You will receive worksheets and checklists to help you plan and deliver your presentation for the most impact, and you will learn how to deal with the anxiety that so often accompanies such assignments. The course includes tools and techniques to help you determine what the audience wants and needs, methods to gauge their needs, and a structure for organizing and formatting a good presentation. Upon completion of this course you should be able to: Plan the content and strategy. Select a topic. Identify the audience. Gather information. Outline the strategy. Plan the content. Practice the presentation. Prepare the method of delivery. Practice lively speaking. Practice consistent body language. Deliver a polished presentation. Handle last-minute details. Give a dynamic presentation. Communication Ideas/ AmericaLearn is pleased to offer a powerful online interactive course that covers the strategies and tips above. You can access the course for three months for just $29.95. Visit http://americalearn.howtomaster.com

Learn PowerPoint Online for 90 Days. Three Levels Available Communication Ideas/ AmericaLearn is pleased to offer a powerful online PowerPoint interactive course that covers every thing you need to produce dynamic presentations using PowerPoint. We offer three levels, I, II, and III with access for 90 days. Visit http://americalearn.howtomaster.com Click on Courses, then look under Microsoft PowerPoint

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