A Zen Monk Had Sweaty Palms

by Sims Wyeth

Overview

Zen Monk is a short book on presentation skills training, but it’s long on solutions to the problems that bedevil today’s speakers. Compiled from our popular Presentation Pointers, Zen Monk provides pithy nuggets of practical advice for business presenters.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013801783
Publisher:	Sims Wyeth & Co.
Publication date:	12/06/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Sims Wyeth is the President of Sims Wyeth & Co., an international executive development firm devoted to the art and science of high stakes presentations.

The firm provides consulting, seminars, and executive coaching designed to help accomplished people become more confident, skillful, and powerful.

His background as an actor, director, and teacher of rhetoric informs his ability to design communication strategies, develop messaging, and improve the presence and impact of business leaders and scientific and technical experts.

His clients include Gartner, McKinsey, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genentech, and hundreds of other firms. He has also served on the faculties of New York University, Temple University, The University of New Orleans, and The New School for Social Research.

He lives in Montclair, New Jersey with his wife, the author Sharon Dennis Wyeth.

Editorial Reviews

What a wonderful collection of insights, hints, and tips!

Sims brings together a year’s worth of weekly guidance – 52 luminous pithy insights into the rhetorician’s craft. In a more formal age we would only receive this wisdom after swearing loyalty to a secret society, a guild. But here now for anyone who wishes to become a better speaker, Sims shares his distillation of decades of work, thousands of conversations, years teaching and learning the practi

William Malik

Sims Wyeth is a master of effective and persuasive presentations. It's no surprise then, that his book is an object example: clear, insightful, wise - and a delight to read.

Charles Green

Sims Wyeth Presentation Pointers are my favorite regular email messages. They are powerfully pithy and practically profound. Sims is a master at giving the bests presentation advice in very digestible chunks.

Patricia Fripp