Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication

Today's most comprehensive, up-to-date business presentation guidebook

Easy-to-Follow Tools and Strategies for Creating Powerful, Interactive Business Presentations

As a professional, your career relies on reaching audiences, convincing them that your message is valuable, then making them remember that message. Say It With Charts, 4th Edition , walks you through the entire visual presentation process and shows you step-by-step how to create compelling, memorable presentations.

Business presentation tools have changed tremendously. A chart that once took ten hours and ten co-workers to prepare can now be produced by anyone with ten minutes and a computer keyboard. What hasn't changed, however, are the basics behind creating a powerful visual what to say, why to say it, and how to say it for the most impact.

Say It With Charts, 4th Edition , reveals time-tested tips for preparing effective presentations, then shows you how to combine those tips with today's technologies for sharper, stronger visuals. Look to this comprehensive presentation encyclopedia for information on:

How to prepare different types of charts pie, bar, column, line, or dot and when to use each
Hands-on recommendations on lettering size, color choice, appropriate chart types, and more
Techniques for producing dramatic eVisuals using animation, scanned images, sound, video, and links to pertinent websites
"When well-conceived and designed, charts help us communicate more quickly and more clearly than we would if we left the data in tabular form."
From Chapter 1

Business is about communication. Every day, scores of questions must be answered, and each answer must be communicated quickly, completely, and with a minimum of confusion. Time has become our most valuable, irreplaceable commodity, and in today's rapid fire, ultra-competitive business environment delays or errors in communicating information are uncalled for, unaffordable...and unacceptable.

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