The Naked Presenter by Garr Reynolds
Is basically as the title says for the most part. As presenters, the best way to connect with the audience and leave a lasting impact is by opening yourself to the audience by being yourself, avoiding tendencies to hide, and connecting with the audience’s emotions and needs.
I jumped a little through the book and picked out the interesting parts to thoroughly read, especially on areas where I need improvement. A big one is confidence, while I’ve developed enough skills to get through, I’m not comfortable with audiences yet and don’t feel completely free yet.
The book also covered topics and tips on how to create and use powerpoints, videos, stories, and demonstrations to engage the audience. For example, he stressed not filling the presentation so as to distract from your speaking. It should be simple and only supplemental. This is partly because people read faster than you can speak, so don’t give them too much to read.
The reason for these books was my sudden energy to delve into business topics after I started my engineering internship at Kansas City. The next book, Find the Lost Dollars, was a book they gave to all interns to help them understand how to improve profit in a business. Though I haven’t read that book fully yet, so I’ll talk about it later.
Find the Lost Dollars by June Jewell
This book was given to all the interns at the company I interned with the summer of 2022, for railroad/bridge design. As the cover says, it covered 6 ways that design firms often lose money in the projects. Most of them entailed around inefficiency or working on items that aren’t making a profit.
— Jan 18th, 2024 Update —
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Home buying books
Recently, I’ve been thinking about buying a house, so I went to the library and got a stack of books about the home buying process. Here are two of them. Quickly, I found they contained essentially the same information, so probably won’t finish the stack…
