Printed books in the Barcelona Library:

99.20-DAL
Daley, Kevin.
Talk your way to the top : how to address any audience like your career depends on it.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.

Advice for a variety of business situations from presenting up the management chain to delivering bad news.

99.20-WEI
Weissman, Jerry.
Presenting to win : the art of telling your story.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2003.

How to transform your presentations from dry recitals to compelling stories that focus on the audience. Chapter eight “Making the numbers sing” looks at various charts and how to improve them.

19.23-WEM
Wempen, Faithe.
PowerPoint 2003 bible.
Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2003.

Step-by-step presentation building in Powerpoint 2003.

19.23-MIC
Online Training Solutions (Firm)
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 : paso a paso.
Madrid : McGraw-Hill Interamericana de España, 2004.

The same idea in Spanish.

More printed books can be found at the call numbers 99.20 and 19.23.

Electronic books on Ebrary:

Hankins, Gary
The power of the pitch : transform yourself into a persuasive presenter and win more business.
Dearborn Trade Pub., 2005.
Available at ebrary : http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ieselibrary/Doc?id=10074098 

Tips on marketing yourself, body language, voice techniques, avoiding embarrassment, presentation structures, use of humour and pictures and building rapport.

DeMoss, Gary.
Making the client connection : maximizing the power of your personality, presentations, and presence.
Dearborn Trade Pub., 2004.
Available at ebrary : http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ieselibrary/Doc?id=10057398 

This book shares processes, values and personality approaches used by expert sales people to connect with clients and help them to act on their own behalf. Part IV is devoted to “Connecting with powerful presentations”.

Zelazny, Gene.
Say it with charts : workbook.
McGraw Hill, 2004.
Available at ebrary : http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ieselibrary/Doc?id=10085467 

A practical book suggesting techniques to create powerful visual presentations and challenging the reader to improve their use of charts with a number of exercises.

Adair, John
The concise Adair on communication and presentation skills.
London : Thorogood, 2003.
Available at ebrary : http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ieselibrary/Doc?id=10073915 

This book includes a useful chapter on making presentations and Adair’s six principles of effective speaking: Be clear, Be prepared, Be simple, Be vivid, Be natural, Be concise.

More books can be found on the Ebrary database, available at Library > E-Resources > By Alphabetical order .

Free websites

The following include free articles and advice on various aspects of presentation-giving.

• Presentation helper (http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/ )

• Presentations.com (http://www.presentations.com/presentations/index.jsp )

• Public speaking website (http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_public_speaking_2/0,9651,1593249-,00.html )

• Speechworks (http://www.speechworks.net/ )