DELIVER THE PRESENTATION OF YOUR LIFE–AND LAUNCH YOUR CAREER
A nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers to give “the speech of their lives” in 18 minutes or less. The more than 14,000 talks on TED.com have been viewed over 1 billion times and include those by such luminaries as Tony Robbins, Dan Pink, and Sheryl Sandberg.
Now you can learn how to give a TED-style talk to achieve your personal and business goals.
How to Deliver a TED Talk provides more than 100 invaluable tips–everything from opening with an explicit statement of audience benefits to framing your idea as an action-outcome response to a question worth asking. Whether you’re presenting to an audience of 1 or 1,000, this book is an indispensable resource for any public speaker.
“Not just for TED talks, it’s a great book for any presentation you have to make. If you want to deeply engage and impress your audience, this is a quick, informative, and brilliant guide.” — PETER BREGMAN, TEDx talker and author of 18 Minutes
“Jeremey’s advice was key to my successful TED talk at TEDMED.” — AMANDA BENNETT, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Executive Editor/Projects and Investigations for Bloomberg News
A Standing Ovation! This book is an excellent step-by-step guide to creating the perfect TED-style presentation. Whether you are speaking at a TED or TEDx event, need to give a keynote presentation or just want to learn how to be a better presenter overall, this book can help you.Jeremey has clearly spent countless hours learning from the masters and throughout the book he references some of the best and most-loved TED videos of all time. It was quite fascinating to hear how he analyzes the different…
If you’re planning to give a TED talk – or any talk – this is a great book to read I just read through Jeremy’s great little book. It was a very fast read – he’s engaging and insightful – and well worth it. I’ve given two TEDx talks and will be giving another this month – so it was great to read this gem. Jeremy must have watched a huge number of these talks because he understands them through and through. I won’t watch another one the same way as I hear his observations in my head.But it’s not just about TED talks – this is a great book to read anytime you have a…
Excellent Read for any Presenter I was recently looking for some shorter length books to read on my Kindle and while browsing options on Amazon, I stumbled across a series of TED e-books. It may be more accurate to describe them as white papers or articles instead of books, since they are all roughly 50-100 pages in length. Since I am a fan of TED and am interested in improving my own presentation skills, I thought I’d start by reading the book `How to Deliver a TED Talk’ by Jeremey Donovan.I was very impressed…