Presentation Secrets Of Steve Jobs: How to Be Great in Front of Audience

162 DELIVER THE EXPERIENCE product he discussed was a new version of iWork. Finally, the third was a new MacBook seventeen-inch ...

SCHILLER LEARNS FROM THE BEST 163 slide set yourself by watching the actual keynote presentation on the Apple website or visitin ...

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165 ACT 3 REFINE AND REHEARSE S o far, we’ve learned how Steve Jobs plans his presenta- tions. We’ve talked about how he support ...

166 REFINE AND REHEARSE  SCENE 16: “Wear the Appropriate Costume.” Jobs has the easiest wardrobe selection in the world: it’s t ...

167 SSSSCENE 14CCCEEENNNEEE 111444 Master Stage Presence I was hooked by Steve’s energy and enthusiasm. GIL AMELIO S teve Jobs ...

168 REFINE AND REHEARSE TABLE 14.1 JOBS’S MACWORLD 2003 PRESENTATION STEVE’S WORDS STEVE’S GESTURES “Two years ago, we introduce ...

MASTER STAGE PRESENCE 169 put his hands into his pockets and proceeded to deliver his com- ments in a low-key monotone. Worst of ...

170 REFINE AND REHEARSE thinking of giving public speaking workshops to underprivi- leged youth.”^2 Sigman spent forty-two years ...

MASTER STAGE PRESENCE 171 tell. He maintains eye contact with his audience nearly all the time. He glances at a slide and immedi ...

172 REFINE AND REHEARSE since (with the exception of his 2005 Stanford commencement address). See Figure 14.1. HAND GESTURES Job ...

MASTER STAGE PRESENCE 173 use gestures. McNeill has found that very disciplined, rigorous, and confident thinkers use hand gestu ...

174 REFINE AND REHEARSE deal, after all. Great slides mean little without a great delivery. A great story will fall flat if deli ...

MASTER STAGE PRESENCE 175 TABLE 14.2 JOBS’S 2007 iPHONE PRESENTATION STEVE’S WORDS STEVE’S DELIVERY “This is a day I’ve been loo ...

176 REFINE AND REHEARSE sink in. Most presenters sound as though they are trying to rush through the material. In many ways, the ...

MASTER STAGE PRESENCE 177 To a large extent, how Steve Jobs speaks and carries himself leaves his audience with a sense of awe a ...

178 REFINE AND REHEARSE Ben Stein provides us with one of the best examples of a horribly dull, monotone vocal delivery. In the ...

179 SSSSCENE 15CCCEEENNNEEE 111555 Make It Look Effortless Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you ...

180 REFINE AND REHEARSE of grueling practice to prepare for a presentation? The honest answer is probably “never.” If you really ...

MAKE IT LOOK EFFORTLESS 181 is one of the most important aspects of Steve Jobs’s impact on Apple: he has little or no patience f ...