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Powerful Communication Skills: How to Communicate With Confidence

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A Solid Effort!

Powerful Communication Skills: How to Communicate With Confidence
Colleen McKenna
Manufacturer: Career Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1564143562

Book Description

Powerful Communication Skills will show users how to speak clearly, listen accurately, and assert oneself effectively. Developing powerful methods of sharing information - whether it's reading, writing, speaking, or listening - will result in higher self-esteem, clearer communication and a powerful professional image.Written in an easy to follow format, this guide shows how to bridge communication gaps, how to clearly ask for infomation needed, and how to deal more effectively with challenges. With easy-to-implement tips, users can immediately incorporate the content.

Customer Reviews:

A Solid Effort!.......2001-04-24

There's more to communications than words, and according to Colleen McKenna you'll have to master a diverse set of self-expression skills if you want to succeed in business. In her book, McKenna covers diverse topics ranging from speaking, writing and listening, to asserting yourself, solving problems and dealing with put-downs. The impressive breadth of the book is also its greatest weakness, in that with so much ground to cover, McKenna is in no position to delve deeply into any one point. As a result, the chapters are lacking in detail. However, each section does provide a wonderful introduction to issues like the problems of communicating with members of the opposite sex and the best ways to prepare for a public speaking engagement. We [...] recommend this book to professionals interested in getting a well-rounded sample of several communications disciplines before plunging into more in-depth research.

Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive

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Very good for one specific aspect
The Power of a Programmer (without being one)
Improperly Titled
Only book on VBA devoted to PowerPoint

Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive
David M. Marcovitz
Manufacturer: Libraries Unlimited
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ASIN: 1591580951

Book Description

Learn to use PowerPoint in ways you never thought possible. Marcovitz shows how, providing practical instruction for using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to create learning environments and educational materials that support and enhance student success. With the widespread availability of PowerPoint (every copy beginning with version 1997 comes with VBA built-in) schools have all the tools they need to create powerful and interactive multimedia resources. The true power of multimedia lies in its ability to engage students' minds. Professional multimedia tools are too difficult to learn, too expensive, or both, and although many teachers and students use HyperStudio or PowerPoint to develop multimedia projects, these projects often lack true interactivity. Using VBA with PowerPoint gives teachers and students an accessible way to easily create interactive multimedia resources and projects. After introducing the basics of educational planning, the design process, and the benefits of designing and using multimedia, this book offers the practical knowledge you need to create powerful educational resources. Learn to create projects that include:

Pictures, videos, recorded voices, and links to Web sites

Interactive menus

Quizzes and short-answer questions with automatic user-feedback

The ability to score quizzes

The ability to keep track of which presentation sections have or haven't been visited

The ability to allow the user to type and alter slides during the presentation

And much more The possibilities are endless. Anyone with basic PowerPoint skills can use this book to create powerful educational material for themselves, their colleagues, their students, or their own children.

Customer Reviews:

Very good for one specific aspect.......2006-11-11

This book is an excellent resource if you want to learn how to use Visual Basic to write interactive quizzes in PowerPoint.It is definitely aimed at educators. There are better books out there for learning PowerPoint, but this book is definitely outstanding in this one area.

The Power of a Programmer (without being one).......2006-07-17

If you're like me, experienced with PowerPoint, but not a programmer, then taking a trip into the world of vba scripting with David Marcovitz's "Powerful PowerPoint for Educators" makes it easy and enjoyable. This book is like having a conversation with the author who has "been there and done it" in terms of developing script that is practical and useful in so many PowerPoint projects you may need to develop. Among other objectives, I had the need to incorporate an interactive leadership style self-assessment in my cbt of the same name, and thanks to David's book I was able to let the user make his/her selections (as well as change them too), track scores, and then take those scores on to subsequent slides to discern the meaning of each of them (not to mention printing as well as saving those scores based on user preference). And of course, all along the way, I learned a great deal about other scripting options that proved useful in this application as well as for future projects.
If you're at the stage where you need to use vba scripting, this is the book that should be your primer. It will take you where you need to go!

Improperly Titled.......2006-07-11

This book is not really properly titled -- it should be "Using Scripting to Make PowerPoint Interactive." The author makes it clear (part way through the book) that he is not writing this for people with programming knowledge -- all he intends for you to do is copy the scripts he provides and use them as he intends. He even discourages the reader to read what little is written about programming.

In addition, the $45 price tag is ludicrously high. This book is worth $19.95 tops.

Only book on VBA devoted to PowerPoint.......2004-04-29

Every computer coordinator and interested computer teacher, anyone who does instructional presentations / training, and college level professors who are accustomed to using PowerPoint and those constructing online programs for medical CEU programs, now using such programs as Agility Presenter or Appraiso would benefit from this book. This method of using VBA with PowerPoint truly allows for authentic, interactive, memorable, meaningful, and fun e-learning with a program many trainers already use. Sure you can do this with Flash, but most instructors in other fields than computer technology really don't have time for that learning curve. Maybe the computer teacher has time, but not the social studies teacher nor the medical professor teaching second year medical students interview techniques, for example. As an instructor it would be great to provide an additional e-learning module on CD that you created with PowerPoint and VBA. It will leave a lasting impression.
I have searched many a thousand paged books for dribs and drabs of VBA on PowerPoint. This book immediately gives you useful, real world problems and gets right to the point in about 180+ pages and contains more information than many thousand page books that cost considerably more. The author also provides a Web site with actual samples of the programs that work in case you run into difficulties.
I went on a newsgroup site to ask a VBA question about PowerPoint before Amazon sent my book. Normally I receive answers that are completely beyond anything I need or want. It just so happens that the book's author answered my question and helped me solve my problem and told me about his book, at which point I realized I had recently ordered it. I often rate books, but I rarely write reviews. This one deserves all 5 stars and then add five more! I can't say enough about it. It is one of a kind.

Powerful Telephone Skills: A Quick and Handy Guide for Any Manager or Business Owner (Business Desk Reference)

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Obsolete

Powerful Telephone Skills: A Quick and Handy Guide for Any Manager or Business Owner (Business Desk Reference)
Career Press
Manufacturer: Career Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Customer Service Over the Phone: Techniques and Technology for Handling Customers Over the Phone

ASIN: 1564141071

Customer Reviews:

Obsolete.......2001-04-09

I am new to the 'home office' concept of working. A critical success factor in this setup, where face-to-face human interaction is minimal, is to have powerful telephone skills.

I found that the book is obsolete and does not cover modern-age telephone techniques including the following :

- Effective Conference Calling - Effective Technical Presentations on telephone - Effective 'Bridge Calling' - leaving effective voice mail messages - Telephone Etiquettes - Mobile Phone techniques - Controlled Gossiping - Getting past the secretary to the Boss

Instead, the book digresses into normal sales techniques and telemarketing techniques, contradicting with the book cover : 'guide for manager or business owner'.

The book can better be retitled as 'elementary telephone skills for telemarketers'

I am disappointed.

Powerful Presentation Skills: How to Get a Group's Attention, Hold People's Interest and Persuade Them to Act
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Comprehensive and practical

Powerful Presentation Skills: How to Get a Group's Attention, Hold People's Interest and Persuade Them to Act
Debra Smith
Manufacturer: Careertrack
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 1559777028

Customer Reviews:

Comprehensive and practical.......2003-12-02

I am glad someone took the time to bring together all the aspects involved in making a powerful presentation. It takes you through all stages developing goals, creating an opener, creating transitions between topics, closures, preparing, dealing with anxiety and stress, getting feedback, rehearsing, giving the actual presentation, handling Q&A....The guide also provides tips to handle hecklers, physical disasters during presentation, analyzing audience and most importantly preparing ahead of time for the presentation.

Powerful Presentation Skills: Develop the Confidence and Skill to Make Effective Presentations (National Seminars Group Audio Series)

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Excellent Confidence Builder

Powerful Presentation Skills: Develop the Confidence and Skill to Make Effective Presentations (National Seminars Group Audio Series)
Neil Poindexter
Manufacturer: Oasis Audio
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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Excellent Confidence Builder.......2000-09-25

This audio book was one of the best I have ever listened to. It was very informative and keeps you on your seat to learn more.

Average customer rating:

Good overview of the subject

Powerful Presentation Skills
Dennis Becker , and Paula Borkum Becker
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1556238703

Book Description

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Customer Reviews:

Good overview of the subject.......2001-10-20

Not the book to buy if you are looking for indepth information regarding presentation skills, but exactly what you need if you want to use for self-development or a good class outline on the subject. It covers all the main topics surrounding the subject, but doesn't go into great detail on any one topic. It is well written, easy to read, and provides many useful exercises.

How to Develop Powerful Telephone Skills: Five 20-Minute Self-Study Sessions That Build the Skills You Need to Succeed (Dartnell High-Performance Skill Builder)

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Great for new and experienced call center staff!

How to Develop Powerful Telephone Skills: Five 20-Minute Self-Study Sessions That Build the Skills You Need to Succeed (Dartnell High-Performance Skill Builder)
Dartnell Publications , and Dartnell Corp
Manufacturer: Dartnell Corp.
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Great for new and experienced call center staff!.......1998-12-03

In setting up a new customer support desk for our company, I have used this book as part of our training and often use it as a reference when in a tough situation.

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