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BOOKS for Presenters, Online Trainers and Remote Speakers

BEST BOOKS for New Presenters, Trainers & Remote Speakers

Here are my recommendations for the BEST  books for new presenters and speakers.

  • Would you like to learn to be a better presenter?
  • Want more confidence?
  • Like to develop more speaker skills to engage your audience?

Then these books and resources are for YOU!

Expert Positioning and Personal Branding

These  books can help you position and differentiate yourself in the

Successful motivational speakers
Pop by Sam Horn (Packaging your topics & ideas)
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Me 2.0 by Dan Schawbel
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Making It Happen by Peter Sheahan

 Better Graphics & Powerpoint Presentations

These are amazing speaker for books for designing better presentations and screen graphics.

Successful motivational speakers
Presentation Zen (2nd edition) by Garr Reynolds
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Resonate – present visual stories that transform audiences by Nancy Duarte
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How to be a Presentation God By Scott Schwertly

Pitching Your Ideas

These speaker books are for speakers who want to be more persuasive and learn to pitch their ideas from the stage

Successful motivational speakers
How to persuade people who don’t want to be persuaded by Joel Bauer (Selling from Stage)
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Life’s a Pitch – How to sell yourself and your brilliant ideas by Bayley and Mavity
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The Art of the Pitch – persuasion and presentation skills that win biz by Peter Coughter

Using More Humour when Presenting

These are my favourite speaker books for being a funnier speaker

More Funny More Money
More Funny More Money by Marty Wilson
Talk Funny
Do you Talk Funny? by David Nihill
Successful motivational speakers
Comedy Writing Secrets – by Mel Helitzer

Telling Stories and Being Memorable

Some very good Speaker Books on Storytelling and Story Theatre

Successful motivational speakers
Story Theater – The Science of the Art of Storytelling & Humour in Business by Doug Stevenson
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Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath
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Power Stories by Valerie Khoo

Facilitation Techniques Books

If you want to learn to be a better facilitator- I love these speaker books

Successful motivational speakers
The Secrets of Facilitation by Michael Wilkinson
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Mining for Gold – Facilitation Skills to Unearth a wealth of ideas from your team by Michael Podolinsky

Books on Video Confidence & Making Videos

Every online trainer and presenter needs to be confident on camera and make more videos –

I strongly recommend Julian Mather’s Book & E-Book – Get Video Smart

This page is a Work in Progress – If you have any books that are “MUST READS” for Presenters, Trainers and Online Speakers please call or email me.

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ABOUT David Staughton CSP CCEO

David Staughton PresenterDavid “Big Dave” Staughton is a Specialist Practice Consultant and an Award-winning Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) with over 15 years of professional speaking & consulting experience. He is a past board member of Professional Speakers Australia and an advisor to a large Australian speakers bureau and E-Speakers.

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