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How to Run Seminars & Workshops: Presentation Skills for Consultants, Trainers and Teachers
By: Robert L. Jolles Publisher: Wiley Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Wiley Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 320 Publication Date: August 15, 2005
Product Description: The Trainer's Guide to Training
Most new trainers and presenters know all they need to know about their chosen subject. Unfortunately, few of them actually know how to present what they know. For more than a decade, Robert Jolles's How to Run Seminars and Workshops has taught tens of thousands of people how to sell, teach, stand up, and deliver an effective training session on almost any subject in almost any setting.
This new Third Edition updates this classic guide for anyone who has to get up and move an audience. Just as he did in the book's previous editions, Jolles-former head of Xerox's world-renowned "train the trainer" program-shares proven, effective techniques for winning over an audience, holding their interest, conveying important information, and moving that audience to take action! For seasoned pros, this is an invaluable tool for becoming a world-class seminar and workshop leader. For novices, it's a step-by-step self-teaching guide that provides the confidence and the techniques speakers need to survive and thrive in front of an audience.
Packed with straightforward, trustworthy advice, this reliable resource covers all the bases for today's professional trainers and speakers, including research and preparation, questioning techniques, pacing, visual aids, evaluation and support, feedback, and more:
Creating your own seminar business
Recognizing different personalities and types of behavior
Training groups with diverse needs
On-site preparations
Maintaining the audience's interest
The latest technology and visual aids
Giving feedback and coaching
Presenting your best self to the audience
Developing a training staff
And, most important, how to sell your message
Trusted by thousands of professional trainers for the latest tactics and practices in seminar and workshop leadership, How to Run Seminars and Workshops, Third Edition is the ultimate guide for anyone who makes a living sharing what they know with others.
Good Book for Designing Seminars I am a former full-time trainer for JD Edwards (a big software company) and thought I knew everything about running seminars. But after I read Robert Jolles' book, I realized that there is a lot more to it than just standing in front of a group of people with a Powerpoint presentation and flipchart and talking about a subject.
This book offers the reader valuable tips on preparing for and delivering great seminars. Delivery is the key. Audiences are more demanding than ever and their time is valuable. One goal of a seminar leader is to entertain, not just teach.
Jolles makes the point in his book that conducting successful seminars is not just about transferring knowledge. It is about setting a pace, capturing the attention of an audience, and finishing with a positive end result.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is thinking about doing seminars or workshops.
Mitch Paioff, Author, Getting Started as an Independent Computer Consultant
Getting Started as an Independent Computer Consultant
How to control any confab Developing the skill to conduct workshops and seminars requires a lot of time and effort, but it can lead to an exciting professional life and eventually pay huge dividends. Learning to gain an audience's rapt attention takes dedication and practice, but giving a seminar or workshop is a very effective way to sell your product, service or expertise. Robert L. Jolles offers tips for translating your special knowledge into a seminar or workshop presentation, from organizing your material to getting the right coaching to handling challenging characters from the audience. getAbstract recommends this useful guide; it's a quick course in Professional Skills 101.
Practical Advice, delivered with wit and insight Robert Jolles has written a very readable and practical book on the ins and outs, the do's and don'ts of running seminars. He knows of what he speaks, as he has substantial scar tissue as a trainer for Xerox and as a self-employed training consultant. He has directed numerous "train the trainer" courses. Jolles has wit and insight and can help you avoid some common mistakes.
Much of the book, particularly toward the end, deals with the unique setting of corporate trainers and those who train other trainers. Personally, I found this less useful. Those looking for business advice on how to run and market seminars may also be disappointed, since that is not a focus of Jolle's book.
Worth perhaps the price of the book alone is Jolle's advice on how to go about writing a book. One of his early central ideas is that becoming an author of the book is nearly essential for establishing credibility for running your own seminars, workshops, and some of our business. He offers practical and excellent tips that have worked for him in being able to write a book and establish solid credibility.
If you are involved in delivering training programs, either in-house in a corporate setting or as an individual entrepreneur, this book is essential reading!
A must read for training and presentations! Robert Jolles describes all of the steps in running your own workshops and seminars or working in the training department. Writing your own book. Developing a process of training that helps the trainer and the audience. Visual aid management. Trainee evaluation. All of the steps are in a simple, easy to read book. There are also parts of the book that will help develop and improve skills for sales professionals.
to-the-point and well structured The book is practical, clear and well written. The writer is clearly very experienced in the field. I like his matter of fact approach with a dry sense of humour.
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