Chapter Download: Improve your Presentation Skills
This chapter download provides practical advice for anyone making influential presentations that change business – from the CIO to the sales executive, or the Head of IT Strategy to business managers.

Making ‘death by slide presentation’ a thing of the past
Anyone who has a business role to play in influencing others, needs to make their presentation stand out from the crowd and Stories That Move Mountains, published by Wiley, promises to help the reader do just that.
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Stories That Move Mountains
By Martin Sykes, A. Nicklas Malik and Mark D. West
Published by Wiley, £23.99
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Authored by three enterprise experts at Microsoft, Stories That Move Mountains, explains to readers how to use a process called CAST (Content, Audience, Story and Tell) to create effective stories and visualisations - known as ‘Story Mapping’ – and deliver persuasive presentations.
The book offers a practical approach to capturing and analysing what information to include in a presentation and explains how to put the content together for an effective delivery that will have a big impact on the audience. Illustrated with sample Story Maps, templates, practical success stories and much more it also includes examples of what a step-by-step development from first ideas to completed visual story looks like in real usage.