Presenter's Atlas

Presenting to adult groups with elegance and grace is a learnable set of principles and skills. The Presenter 's Atlas is your support system to be used in the full range of presentation and facilitation settings. It is a companion to the book, The Choreography of Presenting: the 7 Essential Abilities of Effective Presenters (Corwin Press, 2010). The Atlas serves as an accessible guide for planning, goal setting, and reflecting on your seminars, workshops, and professional development sessions.

The Presenter’s Alas is a tour guide for how to:

• Establish credibility at the beginning of a session and sustain it throughout
• Maintain rapport between individuals and the group
• Read a group to know what is working and what is not
• Effectively balance content and processes while attending to the group’s development
• Respond appropriately to participants questions and comments
• Deal with resistance or conflict
• Recover with poise when things don’t go as planned