Summary: Show and Tell E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Business Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 26

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

The must-read summary of Dan Roam's book: "Show and Tell: How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations".

This complete summary of the ideas in Dan Roam's book "Show and Tell" explains that while sharing your ideas is essential to achieve both personal and professional success, most people dread public speaking and try to avoid it. The author gives three simple rules to follow that will guarantee you give a great presentation; tell the truth, tell it with a story and tell it with pictures. If you follow these rules, you'll be able to give interesting and engaging presentations in no time.

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Book Presentation: Show and Tell by Dan Roam

Summary of Show and Tell (Dan Roam)

Book Presentation: Show and Tell by Dan Roam

Book Abstract

MAIN IDEA

There is nothing more important for achieving personal or professional success than being able to share your ideas in public. Yet despite that, most people are terrified about public speaking. That's unfortunate and it doesn't have to be that way.

To give a great presentation, there are really just three rules you have to follow:

Tell the truthTell it with a storyTell it with pictures

So how and why does this work?

When you lead with the truth, your heart will always eventually follow.

When you tell engaging stories, you take the listener on an unforgettable journey

When you include pictures with your stories, you engage and captivate their minds.

"If I tell you the truth, I tell you with a story, and if I tell that story with pictures, I can keep you glued to your seat."

- Dan Roam

About the Author

DAN ROAM is founder and president of Digital Roam, Inc., a management consulting firm which specializes in business-oriented visual thinking and illustration techniques. He has consulted with companies like Google, eBay, Boeing, General Electric, HBO, News Corp. and many others. He previously worked at Razorfish, Red Square, The Moscow Times and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In addition to being an experienced keynote speaker, Dan Roam is also the author of several books including The Back of the Napkin and Unfolding the Napkin. Dan Roam is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Dan Roam's website is at www.DanRoam.com.

Important Note About This Ebook

This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, view points and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.

Summary of Show and Tell (Dan Roam)

Rule #1 — Tell the truth

When you get down to bedrock principles, the simple fact is your presentation will be deemed to be extraordinary if it changes the listener for the better. The only thing which will make people change is the truth and there is no faster way to establish trust than to tell the truth. If you really plan on influencing people, forget the hype and stick to the truth.

To move people, you have to be telling them the truth. The fastest way to lose your audience is to try and give them nothing but hype or B.S. To get people to do something or to get them to change in some way, you've got to be giving them the unvarnished truth first and foremost.

That being said, truth comes in three different varieties:

Factual truth is based on data. "This partially filled glass of water is made up of air and H2O."Emotional truth is something which you personally believe. "The glass is half full!"Intellectual truth