- Epilogue
- Title page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 How to prepare communication that works
- SECTION B Get more done more quickly How to save one month per year
- 3 When you want to find the time to communicate brilliantly
- 4 When you want to impress senior audiences when you haven’t much time
- 5 When you want to ensure people remember your key messages
- 7 When you want to have better, quicker meetings and conference calls
- 8 When you want to only attend the meetings you need to
- 9 When you want to prepare for meetings in the right way
- 10 When you want to ensure meetings generate actions, not just discussion topics
- 11 When you want to run punchy, interesting and effective update meetings (or not have them)
- 12 When you want to get a quick response to an FYI email
- 13 When you want to empty your inbox
- 14 When you want to see how much extra time you’ve now got
- SECTION C Persuade more people to say “yes” How to convince others to do what you want
- 17 When you want to align your agenda to everyone else’s
- 18 When you want to get an enthusiastic “yes” very quickly
- 19 When you want to prove you’re someone’s best option
- 20 When you want to make a sale
- 21 When you want to write a winning proposal or sales presentation
- 22 When you want to stand out from the crowd
- 24 When you want to use the best communication channel to get a quick “yes”
- 25 When you want to create titles that instantly grab people
- 26 When you want to write eye-catching introductions
- 27 When you want to use analogies to make your point
- 28 When you want to structure your communications so they’re more persuasive
- 30 When you want to get a job interview
- SECTION D Enjoy your job more How to make work more fun
- 32 When you want to build powerful relationships quickly
- 33 When you want to get things right first time
- 34 When you want to deliver interesting presentations that impress everyone
- 35 When you want to use “word pictures” to help people remember things
- 36 When you want to use initials to help people remember things
- 38 When you want to enjoy using PowerPoint
- 39 When you want to create great visuals to enhance your message
- Step 1: Improve your title
- Step 2: Prioritize your points
- Step 3: Remove as many low-priority points as possible
- Step 4: Remove the unimportant words
- Step 5: Insert slide-builds
- Step 6: Make the slides look nice
- Useful Tip 1: Prepare two slide-sets, not one
- Useful Tip 2: Preparing “Compare and Contrast” slides
- 40 When you want to start a presentation brilliantly (when your audience is large and/or doesn’t know you)
- 41 When you want to appear polished, even if you haven’t practised much
- 42 When you want to prepare for – and deliver – an excellent Q&A session
- 43 When you want to ensure your important initiatives succeed
- 44 When you want to have good two-way conversations
- 45 When you want to enjoy attending networking events
- 46 When you want to help people read your documents quickly
- 47 When you want to improve people’s performance through observation and coaching
- 48 When you want to improve people’s performance after annual reviews
- SECTION E Eliminate the negatives How to remove your communication frustrations
- Why This Matters
- 50 When you want to stop saying “no” too quickly
- 52 When you want to come up with good ideas, but can’t think of any
- 53 When you want to remove someone’s concerns about what you’re planning to do
- 54 When you want to remove someone’s final reason for saying “no”
- 55 When you want to get good outcomes from challenging conversations
- 56 When you want to stop procrastinating about initiating challenging conversations
- 58 When you want to stop diluting other people’s messages
- 59 When you want to stop hating presentations
- 60 When you want to avoid people instantly doubting your credibility
- 61 When you want to stop wasting your time with people who can’t make decisions
- 62 When you want to prevent avoidable disasters
- 63 When you want to stop saying irrelevant stuff
- 64 When you want to break the pattern of hearing useful ideas, but doing nothing with them
- Conclusion: Build your momentum
- And for more help . . .
- Acknowledgments
- About Andy Bounds
To Em, Meg, Jack, Maia and Tom – My angels and my demons x
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