| business background for powerpoint: Speaking PowerPoint Bruce R. Gabrielle, 2010 You use PowerPoint at work to create strategic plans, executive briefings, research reports and other boardroom-style slides. But could your slides be clearer, more convincing and built in half the time? You bet! Learn a new method for business managers who want to use PowerPoint at work to drive strategy. The Mindworks Presentation Method is based on 40 years of research in brain science, instructional design and information design and will help you to eliminate time wasters and complete PowerPoint decks three times faster, to enhance your credibility by creating visually pleasing slides using simple graphic design rules, to make complex slides easier to understand and avoid Death by PowerPoint forever, to make audiences more likely to agree with you by applying the proven principles of master persuaders. |
| business background for powerpoint: Building PowerPoint Templates Step by Step with the Experts Echo Swinford, Julie Terberg, 2012-09-28 Building PowerPointTemplates Supercharge your PowerPoint® presentations with custom templates and themes! Want to create presentations that are more consistent and cost-effective? Presentations that fully reflect your branding? Then don’t settle for Microsoft’s “out-of-the-box” templates and themes: create your own! In this easy, hands-on guide, two PowerPoint MVPs teach you every skill and technique you’ll need to build the perfect template–from planning and design, through theme building, custom layouts, colors, and deployment. Echo Swinford and Julie Terberg have distilled their immense PowerPoint knowledge into simple, step-by-step techniques you can use right now, whether you’re using PowerPoint 2010 or 2007 for Windows, or PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Well-built templates are the backbone of great presentations—whether building them for your own use or designing for thousands of users, this book will guide you through the process of creating the most effective templates. Important Note: Upgrading from older versions of PowerPoint, such as PowerPoint 2003? Your old templates may no longer work. This book will help you make the transition painlessly! • Plan new templates and themes to maximize their business value for years to come • Understand the differences between templates and themes, and how they work together • Make better choices about color, fonts, and slide layouts • Create efficient templates for individual users, teams, and large organizations • Incorporate Notes and Handout Masters into your presentation templates • Provide example slides and default settings that lead to better presentations • Use Microsoft’s little-known Theme Builder to create effects and background styles • Work around hidden quirks in PowerPoint’s advanced template and theme features Echo Swinford, a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000, has been a featured speaker at the Presentatio Summit (formerly PowerPoint Live) since its inception. She is the expert voice and instructor behind PowerPoint 2010 LiveLessons (Video Training), the author of Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances and co-author of The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit. Julie Terberg is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and featured speaker at the Presentation Summit. She is the owner of Terberg Design and has been designing presentations since the mid-1980s. She is co-author of Perfect Medical Presentations. As contributing author for Presentations Magazine, she won awards for her Creative Techniques columns. |
| business background for powerpoint: Beyond Bullet Points Cliff Atkinson, 2005 A guide to using Microsoft PowerPoint describes how to use stories to create effective business presentations. |
| business background for powerpoint: Presentation Zen Garr Reynolds, 2009-04-15 FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the Net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making slide presentations in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations. |
| business background for powerpoint: Mastering Microsoft Office 2003 for Business Professionals Gini Courter, Annette Marquis, 2006-07-14 Get Down to Business—Maximize Your Efficiency with Office 2003 Written for business-minded and experienced Office users, this task-oriented guide goes directly to the bottom line, revealing optimal ways to perform critical, challenging tasks. After fifteen years of teaching people how to be more productive with Office, Courter and Marquis know users' FAQs and understand the way you use Office—as an integrated suite rather than as a collection of separate applications. In Mastering Microsoft Office 2003 for Business Professionals they skip the basics and focus instead on precious time-saving techniques that help you streamline your day-to-day activities. Inside, you'll learn how to: Manage schedules, tasks, contacts (Outlook) Build and deliver convincing, animated presentations (PowerPoint) Create documents collaboratively (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Streamline mailings and messaging (Word, Outlook, Access, Excel) Produce complex publications such as manuals, proposals, and contracts (Word, Binder, FrontPage) Publish documents on the Web (FrontPage, Excel) Organize and secure documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) Build robust, foolproof workbooks (Excel) Design and develop data sources (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook) Create templates for repetitive tasks (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage) Construct user input forms (Outlook, FrontPage, Word) Dissect data, and then present it in compelling ways (Excel, Access) Tweak Office to fit the way you work (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) Use macros to do more with Office (Word, Excel) |
| business background for powerpoint: Lean Presentation Design Maurizio La Cava, 2015-09-16 Ideas have the power to change the world. Presentations are the tools to spread your ideas. Forget long lasting days crafting boring presentations nobody cares about. Craft emotions not slides, become a hero not a presenter, change the world not the font size, it is time to take the leap! Is it possible to: - Trigger unforgettable emotions without saying a word? - Make ideas spread and change people's mind with a single presentation? - Craft presentations twice as fast as anybody else? Indeed, and much more. This is not just another Presentation Design book. Lean Presentation Design is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning years of professional experience with Fortune 500 clients, top multinational market leaders (Google, Youtube, Johnson & Johnson, Adidas, Piaggio, Ferrero, Accenture, Unicredit) and talented digital startups worldwide, to hack Presentation and Communication techniques. The book contains the collective wisdom of industry experts (Rand_Fishkin, Mark_Graban, Ernest W. Adams, etc.) and thousands of hours of breathtaking personal experiences. The Author is Member of The Microsoft Power Point Expert Group and he's among the top 5% PowerPoint Elance experts with Elance.com worldwide. He is a top rated freelancer with Upwork.com and member of the exclusive Elance Talent Private Cloud. With this ultimate Presentation Design bible you will learn: - How to change your audience's mind and become a true leader - How to exploit advanced design techniques without necessarily being a designer - How to leverage lean methodologies to make presentations twice as fast as you do today - How to hack traditional presentation design processes leveraging jaw-dropping innovative tools |
| business background for powerpoint: English For Business Presentation Lutfi Ashar Mauludin, 2020-01-08 This book consists of three main topics: opening of presentation, content of presentation, and closing of presentation. There are also two additional topics at the beginning and at the end that provide information and tips to make and perform a good presentation. Each topic covers discussions points and exercises/activities aiming to help students applying their knowledge in real life. Each chapter starts with a short overview about the topic and teaching learning activities as well as evaluation process to assist the teacher and students in mastering the material. Some exercises, activities, and discussion topics are provided to improve their understanding and give them opportunity to have more practices. |
| business background for powerpoint: Select Effective Visuals Dave Paradi, 2015-05 This book contains a three step approach to help business professionals create effective presentation visuals. Step 1 is writing a headline that summarizes the message you want the audience to understand and remember from that slide. Step 2 is to select and create an effective visual for the slide. The book focuses on this step because corporate presenters have said they need the most help with this area. The different messages in business presentations are broken down into six categories. The 66 visuals shown are organized into 30 groups and sub-groups under the six categories. Each visual is explained, examples are shown, and tips for creating the visual are given. Step 3 is to focus the audience during the delivery of the slide by using callouts, building the slide piece by piece, and by organizing complex information.-- |
| business background for powerpoint: PowerPoint 2019 For Dummies Doug Lowe, 2018-10-02 Get up and running fast with the PowerPoint 2019 PowerPoint continues to be the go-to tool for business presentations. The software helps anyone who needs to communicate clearly by creating powerful and effective slideshow presentations featuring data in the form of charts, clip art, sound, and video. You can even use it to create presentations for the Web. In PowerPoint 2019 For Dummies, expert Doug Lowe shows you how to use this popular tool to make show-stopping presentations that will get your message across — and your audience excited. Create a slide presentation with special effects Work with master slides and templates Collaborate with other users in the cloud Add charts, clip art, sound, and video Want to learn to use PowerPoint quickly and efficiently? Look no further! |
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| business background for powerpoint: Slide:ology Nancy Duarte, 2008-08-07 A collection of best practices for creating slide presentations. It changes your approach, process and expectations for developing visual aides. It makes the difference between a good presentation and a great one. |
| business background for powerpoint: Applied Business Robert Dransfield, David Needham, 2005 Exactly what you need for the new AS level GCE in Applied Business These brand new books have been written to match the specifications of this new qualification and provide all the information needed - whether it is a single award or double award, with Edexcel or OCR. Four separate books ensure that students receive exactly the right support with no redundant material. Lots of activities add interest and give students the opportunity to work outside the classroom in the real business world. This helps to emphasise the vocational nature of the qualification. Case studies with questions give students real-life perspectives on business and the issues surrounding it. Marginal notes draw attention to key points and suggest relevant activities. |
| business background for powerpoint: Drive Daniel H. Pink, 2011-04-05 The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live. |
| business background for powerpoint: Storytelling with Data Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, 2015-10-09 Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to: Understand the importance of context and audience Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data—Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it! |
| business background for powerpoint: Drawdown Paul Hawken, 2017-04-18 • New York Times bestseller • The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” —Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” —David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” —Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world. |
| business background for powerpoint: Introduction to Business Lawrence J. Gitman, Carl McDaniel, Amit Shah, Monique Reece, Linda Koffel, Bethann Talsma, James C. Hyatt, 2024-09-16 Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
| business background for powerpoint: It's All of Our Business J. Dan Rothwell, Michelle Waters, 2022-10 It's All of Our Business: Communicating Competently in the Workplace is a brief, inexpensive, conversational and comprehensive text that balances practical skills and competence with scholarly insight. The text will address several topics often ignored or given only glancing coverage in competing texts including connecting bids, dialectics and conflict, anger management, difficult group members, virtual groups, cognitive dissonance, persuasion, power, and culture. Instructors may find course preparation tools and more details on our robust digital offerings at www.oup.com/he/rothwell-waters. |
| business background for powerpoint: Point, Click and Wow! Claudyne Wilder, 2008-07-23 In Point, Click & Wow! you will find the insiderknowledge of public speaking that we all need but were nevertaught. When Point, Click & Wow! was first publishedmore than ten years ago, it quickly became the go-to resource forcreating laptop presentations that have the Wow factor! Completely reworked and updated, this new third edition puts thefocus on you, the presenter, who must create a winning presentationevery time. Claudyne Wilder's groundbreaking book offers myriad newfeatures and updated slide designs as well as illustrative storiesand advice from executives. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials arenot included as part of eBook file. |
| business background for powerpoint: ADKAR Jeff Hiatt, 2006 In his first complete text on the ADKAR model, Jeff Hiatt explains the origin of the model and explores what drives each building block of ADKAR. Learn how to build awareness, create desire, develop knowledge, foster ability and reinforce changes in your organization. The ADKAR Model is changing how we think about managing the people side of change, and provides a powerful foundation to help you succeed at change. |
| business background for powerpoint: Business Communication: Essential Strategies for 21st Century Managers, 2e Verma Shalini, 2014 This book Business Communication: Essential Strategies for Twenty-first Century Managers brings together application-based knowledge and necessary workforce competencies in the field of communication. The second edition utilizes well-researched content and application-based pedagogical tools to present to the readers a thorough analysis on how communication skills can become a strategic asset to build a successful managerial career. With the second edition, Teaching Resource Material in the form of a Companion Website is also being provided. This book must be read by students of MBA, practicing managers, executives, corporate trainers and professors. KEY FEATURES • Learning Objectives: They appear at the beginning of each chapter and enumerate the topics/concepts that the readers would gain an insight into after reading the chapter • Marginalia: These are spread across the body of each chapter to clarify and highlight the key points • Case Study 1: It sets the stage for the areas to be discussed in the concerned chapter • Case Study 2: It presents real-world scenarios and challenges to help students learn through the case analysis method • Tech World: It throws light on the latest advancements in communication technology and how real-time business houses are leveraging them to stay ahead of their competitors • Communication Snippet: It talks about real organizations/people at workplaces, their on-job communication challenges and their use of multiple communication channels to gain a competitive edge • Summary: It helps recapitulate the different topics discussed in the chapter • Review and Discussion Questions: These help readers assess their understanding of the different topics discussed in the chapter • Applying Ethics: These deal with situation-based ethical dilemmas faced by real managers in their professional lives • Simulation-based Exercise: It is a roleplay management game that helps readers simulate real managers or workplace situations, and thereby enables students to apply the theoretical concepts • Experiential Learning: It provides two caselets, each followed by an Individual Activity and a Team Activity, based on real-time business processes that help readers ‘feel’ or ‘experience’ the concepts and theories they learn in the concerned chapter to gain hands-on experience • References: These are given at the end of each chapter for the concepts and theories discussed in the chapter |
| business background for powerpoint: Presentation Management Alexanndra Ontra, James Ontra, 2019-01-10 Finally, PowerPoint is Powerful. A new discipline called Presentation Management is bringing decades-old presentation technology into the 21st century. Find out how to store and manage slides in the cloud so slides can easily be used, reused, shared, updated, tracked and organized across your entire organization.Your slides will become smart - embedded with data and analytics so you can actually gauge their performance.This is a guide on how to adopt presentation management, make it work, and use it to drive change in your presentation culture.Presentation Management is enterprise communication strategy. |
| business background for powerpoint: Investigating Business Communication and Technologies Rhonda Rasmussen, Aliisa Mylonas, Hilary Beck, 2012-12-05 |
| business background for powerpoint: When The Scientist Presents: An Audio And Video Guide To Science Talks (With Dvd-rom) Jean-luc Lebrun, 2009-08-21 Check out the author's website at www.scientific-presentations.com This book looks at the presenting scientist from a novel angle: the presenter-host. When scientists give a talk, the audience (“guests”) expects the title of the talk to determine presentation content, they require understandable slides, and they demand visible and audible scientific authority. To each expectation corresponds a set of skills: personal (voice, host qualities, time control), technical (presentation tools and slide design), and scientific (Q&A, slide content). The author takes an original human factor view of the presentation delivery, in which the audience is easily distracted, rapidly forgetful, and increasingly impatient. Thus, insightful pointers are given on how to deliver the talk, how to craft the slides, and how to prevent the computer from rendering the presenting host-scientist into a “ghost”. In addition, the book goes in-depth over the treatment of questions by examining the motives and style of the questioners, and advising on how best to answer to each type of questioner. The book comes with a DVD for audio and video examples, and includes essential PowerPoint and Keynote techniques that a presenter cannot live without.Contents: Content Selection: Paper and Oral Presentation: The DifferenceContent Filtering CriteriaAudience Expectations: General Audience ExpectationsScientific Audience ExpectationsThe Slides: Five Slide Types, Five RolesSlide DesignThe Presenter: The Master of ToolsScientist and Perfect HostThe Grabbing VoiceThe Answerable Scientist Readership: Students, graduates, postgraduates, and professionals seeking help in improving their scientific presentation skills. |
| business background for powerpoint: PowerPoint For Dummies, Office 2021 Edition Doug Lowe, 2021-12-09 Make PowerPoint the most “power”ful weapon in your Office arsenal and captivate your audience Presentations are your opportunity to stand out from the crowd, impress your colleagues, and be the smartest person in the room. And upping your PowerPoint game is the key to making your next talk one to remember. But where do you start? Luckily, the trusted For Dummies series is here to help you put the umph back in your PowerPoint decks, one compelling slide at a time. Don’t worry if you’re completely new to PowerPoint, or even Microsoft Office in general. PowerPoint For Dummies, Office 2021 Edition quickly gets you up to speed on the basics of this world-famous presentation software, starting with understanding and using the interface. You’ll learn to create a new presentation from scratch, leverage free templates to accelerate the making of your next slide deck, and even import data from other applications. Already know the fundamentals? Then skip straight to the sizzle with step-by-step instructions on integrating charts and graphics into your next presentation. Knock your audience’s socks off with attention-grabbing videos, special effects that make it impossible to look away, and seamless slide transitions. Organized for easy and fast reference, this practical guide walks you through the strategies and techniques you’ll need to: Keep your presentation audiences engaged from the first slide to the very last Collaborate with team members and colleagues, and share your presentation with others Take advantage of all the latest features in the newest version of PowerPoint that will help you drive your deck past the finish line Your next presentation is your chance to deliver your best ideas with power, dynamism, and enthusiasm. Get the tools you need to engage your audience in PowerPoint For Dummies, Office 2021 Edition. You’ll soon discover that creating a slide deck, whether it’s your first or your fiftieth, can be fun, easy, and exciting. |
| business background for powerpoint: Sketching, Product Design Presentation Koos Eissen, Roselien Steur, 2014-12-30 From how to sketch to why to sketch |
| business background for powerpoint: Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2019 and JMP Cynthia Fraser, 2019-08-02 The revised Fifth Edition of this popular textbook is redesigned with Excel 2019 and the new inclusion of interactive, user-friendly JMP to encourage business students to develop competitive advantages for use in their future careers. Students learn to build models, produce statistics, and translate results into implications for decision makers. The text features new and updated examples and assignments, and each chapter discusses a focal case from the business world which can be analyzed using the statistical strategies and software provided in the text. Paralleling recent interest in climate change and sustainability, new case studies concentrate on issues such as the impact of drought on business, automobile emissions, and sustainable package goods. The book continues its coverage of inference, Monte Carlo simulation, contingency analysis, and linear and nonlinear regression. A new chapter is dedicated to conjoint analysis design and analysis, including complementary use of regression and JMP. For access to accompanying data sets, please email author Cynthia Fraser at cfg8q@virginia.edu. |
| business background for powerpoint: Present It So They Get It Dave Paradi, 2012-09 Boring presentations are not the problem. Confusing presentations are the problem. PowerPoint presentations have a bad reputation today because audiences often leave confused and unsure of what the presenter was trying to communicate. In this book I share: - My RAPIDS approach to plan and deliver a presentation the audience will understand. I show how this approach applies to the four most common types of business presentations and provide case studies of where this worked to help my clients. - Proven ways to select colors and fonts that work. - Methods for creating effective slides, including: writing the headline, selecting the best visual in each situation, using best practices to create over 30 different visuals, and preparing slides to make an impact in a presentation. - Practical steps for implementing these ideas in your own presentations, along with resources to consult and tips on evaluating your own presentations. |
| business background for powerpoint: Say It with Presentations: How to Design and Deliver Successful Business Presentations Gene Zelazny, 2000-01-11 Organize a powerful, effective business presentation and deliver it with style! Say it with Presentations helps you define why you're giving the presentation and the audience you need to convince. This compelling, comprehensive presentation toolkit tells you when, why, and how to use humor, and, yes, silence to get your points across...howto make the most of visuals...set up facilities and equipment...and rehearse to communicate your confidence, conviction and enthusiasm, and much, much more. |
| business background for powerpoint: Dare to Lead Brené Brown, 2018-10-09 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart! NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it’s necessary to do good work. But daring leadership in a culture defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill-building around traits that are deeply and uniquely human. The irony is that we’re choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the exact same time as we’re scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines and AI can’t do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection, and courage, to start. Four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown has spent the past two decades studying the emotions and experiences that give meaning to our lives, and the past seven years working with transformative leaders and teams spanning the globe. She found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture? In this new book, Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BS style that millions of readers have come to expect and love. Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.” Whether you’ve read Daring Greatly and Rising Strong or you’re new to Brené Brown’s work, this book is for anyone who wants to step up and into brave leadership. |
| business background for powerpoint: Sales Engagement Manny Medina, Max Altschuler, Mark Kosoglow, 2019-03-12 Engage in sales—the modern way Sales Engagement is how you engage and interact with your potential buyer to create connection, grab attention, and generate enough interest to create a buying opportunity. Sales Engagement details the modern way to build the top of the funnel and generate qualified leads for B2B companies. This book explores why a Sales Engagement strategy is so important, and walks you through the modern sales process to ensure you’re effectively connecting with customers every step of the way. • Find common factors holding your sales back—and reverse them through channel optimization • Humanize sales with personas and relevant information at every turn • Understand why A/B testing is so incredibly critical to success, and how to do it right • Take your sales process to the next level with a rock solid, modern Sales Engagement strategy This book is essential reading for anyone interested in up-leveling their game and doing more than they ever thought possible. |
| business background for powerpoint: The Business of Nurse Management Nancy Bateman, RN, BSN, 2012-01-13 Named a 2013 Doody's Essential Purchase! I have not found another book like this with such detailed and comprehensive information in a multitude of areas. It will be a great help to nurse managers. Score: 97, 5 Stars--Doody's Medical Reviews This work is more than a mere academic attempt to define basic management concepts, but rather is a robust toolkit, providing real-life examples and experiences coupled with actual tools and techniques, allowing novice nurse managers to understand concepts such as supply chain management, financial management, and labor and productivity modeling. Additionally, this book serves as a roadmap to the successful implementation of these concepts. I think the author can be confident that there will be many grateful nurse leaders who will have gained a broader perspective of their evolving role, and about how to best implement those practices. Robert Doyle, BSN, MS Managing Director National Supply Chain Practice Leader Navigant Consulting Nurse managers often assume their positions without sufficient knowledge of the nuts and bolts of managing staff and supplies. This volume provides time-tested tools, templates, and guidance that new nurse managers, administrators, and educators can use immediately to effectively manage staff and supplies while promoting quality patient care. It provides strategies for resolving common issues that can be easily adapted to individual situations and it illustrates how specific departmental needs fit into an overall operational picture. The book covers in detail all aspects of supply management, including the budgeting skills required for cost-effective purchases and supply utilization, and department budgeting. It provides tools for labor and productivity issues, including staffing models that facilitate waste reduction and increased efficiency. Strategies for effective communication with staff, colleagues, and senior management are presented, along with techniques for successful design and facilitation of meetings, conflict resolution, time management, and a working knowledge of health care finance. Case studies illustrate best approaches and successful resolutions to a variety of management challenges. Key Features: Provides time-tested tools for the daily business of nurse management Offers proven strategies and formulas that can be easily adapted and put to work immediately Includes step-by-step education on budget and finance within the health care industry Builds leadership skills through communication models and facilitation/presentation guides Clarifies complex budgetary and management issues without technical jargon |
| business background for powerpoint: Coherency Management Gary Doucet, Pallab Saha, Scott Bernard, 2009 The book introduces the idea of Coherency Management, and asserts that this is the primary outcome goal of an enterprise's architecture. With submissions from over 30 authors and co-authors, the book reinforces the idea that EA is being practiced in an ever-increasing variety of circumstances - from the tactical to the strategic, from the technical to the political, and with governance that ranges from sell to tell. The characteristics, usages, value statements, frameworks, rules, tools and countless other attributes of EA seem to be anything but orderly, definable, classifiable, and understandable as might be hoped given heritage of EA and the famous framework and seminal article on the subject by John Zachman over two decades ago. Notably, EA is viewed as an Enterprise Design and Management approach, adopted to build better enterprises, rather than a IT Design and Management approach limited to build better systems. |
| business background for powerpoint: Better, Simpler Strategy Felix Oberholzer-Gee, 2021-04-20 Named one of the best strategy books of 2021 by strategy+business Get to better, more effective strategy. In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these companies achieve more by doing less. At a time when rapid technological change and global competition conspire to upend traditional ways of doing business, these companies pursue radically simplified strategies. At a time when many managers struggle not to drown in vast seas of projects and initiatives, these businesses follow simple rules that help them select the few ideas that truly make a difference. Better, Simpler Strategy provides readers with a simple tool, the value stick, which every organization can use to make its strategy more effective and easier to execute. Based on proven financial mechanics, the value stick helps executives decide where to focus their attention and how to deepen the competitive advantage of their business. How does the value stick work? It provides a way of measuring the two fundamental forces that lead to value creation and increased financial success—the customer's willingness-to-pay and the employee's willingness-to-sell their services to the business. Companies that win, Oberholzer-Gee shows, create value for customers by raising their willingness-to-pay, and they provide value for talent by lowering their willingness-to-sell. The approach, proven in practice, is entirely data driven and uniquely suited to be cascaded throughout the organization. With many useful visuals and examples across industries and geographies, Better, Simpler Strategy explains how these two key measures enable firms to gauge and improve their strategies and operations. Based on the author's sought-after strategy course, this book is your must-have guide for making better strategic decisions. |
| business background for powerpoint: Business Model Generation Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, 2013-02-01 Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to the business model generation! |
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| business background for powerpoint: D-Day Invasion iMinds, 2014-05-14 The story behind D-Day begins in 1939 when Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, attacked Poland and ignited World War Two. The following year, the Germans occupied France and Western Europe and launched a vicious air war against Britain. In 1941, they invaded the Soviet Union. Seemingly unstoppable, the Nazis now held virtually all of Europe. They imposed a ruthless system of control and unleashed the horror of the Holocaust. However, by 1943, the tide had begun to turn in favor of the Allies, the forces opposed to Germany. In the east, despite huge losses, the Soviets began to force the Germans back. |
| business background for powerpoint: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Paul Burns, 2022-01-13 This new edition of the market-leading textbook by Paul Burns offers an unrivalled holistic introduction to the field of entrepreneurship and valuable guidance for budding entrepreneurs looking to launch their own small business. Drawing on his decades of academic and entrepreneurial experience, the author takes you on a journey through the business life-cycle, from the early stages of start-up, through progressive growth, to the confident strides of a mature business. Combining cutting-edge theory with fresh global examples and lessons from real-life business practice, this accessible and explorative textbook will encourage you to develop the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the challenges faced by today's entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship and Small Business will help you to: - Learn what makes entrepreneurs tick with brand new Get into the Mindset video interviews and an exploration of entrepreneuial character traits - Seamlessly incorporate multimedia content into your learning with the new Digital Links platform accessed via your smart device - Understand how worldwide events can impact small businesses through incisive analysis of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic - Grasp how entrepreneurship differs around the globe, with over 100 Case Insights and new examples from a diverse range of countries and industries - Ensure your understanding of the entrepreneurial landscape is up-to-date, with new chapters on recruiting and managing people, and on lean methodologies and business model frameworks. This is the ideal textbook for students taking undergraduate and postgraduate Entrepreneurship or Small Business Management courses, as well as for MBA students. |
| business background for powerpoint: Guide to College Majors 2009 Princeton Review, 2009 Provides information on more than four hundred undergraduate majors, including related fields, sample college curricula, suggested high school preparation courses, and career and salary prospects for graduates. |
| business background for powerpoint: Guide to College Majors, 2010 Edition Staff of the Princeton Review, 2010-02 Guide to College Majors, 2010 Edition provides everything you need to make the right decision about what you want to major in during college. Inside you'll find details on courses, ways to prepare, and career options. Guide to College Majors, 2010 Edition gives you up-to-date, relevant information on more than 400 majors, including: Accounting, Advertising, African American Studies, Agriculture, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Aviation, Biology, Chemistry, Child Care, Classics, Counseling, Culinary Arts, Dance, Data Processing, Economics, Education, Engineering, English Literature, Film, Finance, Geography, History, Human Resources Management, Interior Design, Journalism, Library Science, Linguistics, Marketing, Mathematics, Molecular Genetics, Music, Nursing, Nutrition, Oceanography, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physical Therapy, Physics, Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Law, Pre-Medicine, Pre-Optometry, Pre-Veterinary Medicine, Psychology, Radio and Television, Real Estate, Social Work, Statistics, Theater, Theology, Urban Planning, Women's Studies, and Zoology |
| business background for powerpoint: How to Set Up and Manage a Corporate Learning Centre Samuel A. Malone, 2016-04-29 Few corporate initiatives of the last ten years have been more influential in the development of a learning culture at work than the corporate learning centre. The first edition of Sam Malone's book quickly established itself as the definitive concise guide to best practice. The second edition reflects the lessons learned since that time, along with the developments in learning technology. Setting up and sustaining a successful centre involves strategic skills such as planning and championing; technical skills, including budgeting, marketing and evaluation; and the people skills of communicating, influencing and managing change. There are chapters in the book for all the stakeholders involved, including the learners themselves. How to Set Up and Manage a Corporate Learning Centre offers definitive advice on all of these areas. Sam Malone demystifies what is a difficult, expensive and long term project for any organization. |
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BUSINESS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
BUSINESS definition: 1. the activity of buying and selling goods and services: 2. a particular company that buys and….
VENTURE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
VENTURE definition: 1. a new activity, usually in business, that involves risk or uncertainty: 2. to risk going….
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ENTERPRISE definition: 1. an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that….
INCUMBENT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
INCUMBENT definition: 1. officially having the named position: 2. to be necessary for someone: 3. the person who has or….
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AD HOC definition: 1. made or happening only for a particular purpose or need, not planned before it happens: 2. made….
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LEVERAGE definition: 1. the action or advantage of using a lever: 2. power to influence people and get the results you….
ENTREPRENEUR | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
ENTREPRENEUR definition: 1. someone who starts their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity….
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CULTIVATE definition: 1. to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop: 2. to try to develop and….
EQUITY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
EQUITY definition: 1. the value of a company, divided into many equal parts owned by the shareholders, or one of the….
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