Resources for Tech Communication Made Easy

If you want to buy one book to improve your presentations I highly recommend HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (Harvard Business Review Guides). Nancy Duarte does an outstanding job condensing and organizing information that is impactful. My copy is getting a little dog eared. Even as an experienced presenter I find myself referencing it and The Naked Presenter.

Here are the additional resources referenced in the Tech Communication Made Easy class.

Simon Sinek and his TED Talk Start with Why

Book: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

More about leadership than presenting directly, but if you can inspire people to take action in an organization you can do the same in a presentation.

SkillShare Class: How to Present: Share Ideas That Inspire Action See my notes from the class here.

Garr Reynolds

Book: The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides (Voices That Matter)

Book: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

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Nancy Duarte

Book: Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences also available Free Online Version

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Book: HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (Harvard Business Review Guides)

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