Seth Godin on Presenting to Persuade (Udemy.com)
Build your business, make your point, sell your idea
Created by: Seth Godin
Last updated February 2017
What you will learn
- You'll discover the fundamental flaw built into the software, you'll see how you can use a presentation to make a huge impact, and most of all, you'll have a new tool to make change happen. People who have adopted this powerful approach have gotten funded, promoted, seen, heard and most of all, made a difference.
How it compares
Against the other 392 rated Udemy courses in Communication Skills on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 22% of them
- Reviews10,858#31 of 393 by number of reviews
- Length0.9 hoursshorter than 85% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2017earlier than 98% of them
Course Description
You can learn to use Powerpoint or Keynote to make an impact.
Why is your deck so bad, and how can you turn it into an effective tool?
Instead of focusing on the craft of making slides, thought leader Seth Godin takes you on a journey to understand what your presentation is actually for. He'll help you see that a presentation is a unique and powerful opportunity, a chance to be heard, a moment where you have the leverage to make something happen.
In this forty-minute course, you'll learn how to engage, how to seek enrollment and how to discover and integrate the worldview of your audience. This course will forever change how you give and consume presentations and might just save your organization from another ten thousand hours wasted watching useless bullet points fly by.
This short course is a radical rethinking of Powerpoint (or Keynote) and how you use a deck and a presentation to be heard.
Instead of focusing on prettier slides, you'll learn how to use the leverage and attention you get as the presenter to understand the audience, enroll them in your journey and share your point of view.
NOTE! I'm not going to try to teach you to operate the software. Instead, the course teaches you to avoid falling into the passive voice trap that's built deep into the design (and our expectations) of how people use Powerpoint.
We've all spent too much time watching (and giving) presentations that are boring, ineffective and irrelevant. It's time to change that.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
10,858 Reviews
Seth Godin
World-renowned entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker
More than 100,000 students online...
Seth is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker who knows what it takes to succeed in business and to be your own boss. In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in the world, he has written 20 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Tribes, and What To Do When It's Your Turn (And It's Always Your Turn).
The penultimate one is called THIS IS MARKETING and it's been a #1 bestseller in its category in the USA, Italy and Korea. And out in late 2020 is THE PRACTICE. Find out more at seths.blog/ThePractice
Though renowned for his writing and speaking, Seth also founded two companies, Squidoo and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo!). This real-world entrepreneurial experience is what makes him the ideal teacher for those who wish to forge their own career path.
By focusing on everything from effective marketing and leadership, to the spread of ideas and changing everything, Seth has been able to motivate and inspire countless people around the world.
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Reviews
By Kenneth Dugger on 4/25/2022
The course provided several presentation insights that can be used to make your PowerPoint type presentations, remembered, move people to action, and leave a lasting impact in the mind of attendees. It provided definitive guidelines to maintain your focus in creating presentations that make an impact.
By James Tweedy on 4/1/2021
Seth presents an excellent approach to making convincing presentations and how to avoid some of the pitfalls that lead to demotivating, mind-numbing presentations. This isn’t a “how-to” with accompanying templates and a checklist to better powerpoints. It’s a paradigm shift in how to approach the act of making change happen. If you’re not trying to make change happen, why are you doing it?
By Nathalie Obregon on 2/7/2021
This course was very well organized and laid out. I love Seth’s simple messaging; it makes all the elements being taught in the course easy to remember and to implement/execute. I would have liked to have seen more examples of effective slides as not everyone is skilled at breaking down complex ideas/information into a few words and/or visuals. The course is from 2017, and a refresh would make it even better. Overall great info, and persuasive.
By Anurag Singh on 11/8/2020
good
By Rukaia Rafa on 11/8/2020
THIS IS so cool
By Monika Jezierska on 11/8/2020
Good traing, good dynamics
By Jennifer Duffy on 11/8/2020
I did not find it engaging.
By Zrinka Raguz on 11/8/2020
Seth is the best :) he explains things so well in such simple way!
By Rodolfo Montes on 11/8/2020
Each lesson is short yet covers everything it is design for on an entertain way that makes you reflect about the content and how you can start using the concepts in your presentations.
By Ray Horner on 10/18/2020
There are helpful tips throughout this course that I will use immediately to improve the value of my presentation material for the benefit of my Team, our Customers, Management, and myself. I recommend this module for those who seek to improve existing presentation habits.
By Sheenailla Green on 10/15/2020
Wow! Short but a huge eye opener. I'm extremely inspired.
By Rachel Dober on 10/15/2020
This was an eye-opening course and gave some great strategies that I can apply to future presentations!
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Overall Score : 88 / 100












