Audiobooks narrated by John Brancy

The Big Fish Experience: Create Memorable Presentations That Reel In Your Audience

"From one of Inc. magazine's 'Coolest College Startups'—the revolutionary three-step method that will transform every presentation into an experience for the audience Rid the world of bad presentations with: Engaging Content + Memorable and Simple Design + Powerful Delivery. Together, these create an unforgettable experience for the audience, The Big Fish Experience. Big Fish Presentations spends every day making the incomprehensible compelling; the mundane interesting; and the complex simple. Whether it's a presentation about an idea, a product, a service, a business, or a cause, at its heart, it's a story. The Big Fish Experience will help you tell yours. Learn how to: CAPTIVATE with the power of story, enticing visuals, and infectious enthusiasm INSPIRE with the perfect pitch, a strong message, and a call to action ENGAGE with supreme skill and confidence—and achieve your purpose every time In this practical, step-by-step guide, you'll find proven techniques and expert tips on new presentation tools; innovative ways to deliver your ideas; case studies of presentations, which you can emulate immediately; and ways to recover if things go wrong."

Gus Murillo, Kenny Nguyen, Luke Jones, Robert Killeen (Author), John Brancy (Narrator)

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Communicate to Influence: How to Inspire Your Audience to Action

"'The gold standard for communication training programs.' -USA Today Business communication sucks. At each meeting and presentation, we are inundated with information, leaving us thirsting for inspiration. Sure, we will check off an action item because we have to . . . but what if we were actually inspired to do something? What if we were so moved that we wanted to do it? Leaders must earn the license to lead. Not by expertise, authority, or title alone, but by influence. In Communicate to Influence, you will learn the secrets of the Decker Method-a framework that has been perfected over the past 36 years. Ben and Kelly Decker add fresh insights to these proven principles so that you can ignite change and inspire action. Discover: - The Five White Lies of Communicating: learn which barriers prevent you from getting better - The Communicator's Roadmap: use a tool to visually chart what type of communication experience you create - The Behaviors of Trust: align what you say with how you say it to better connect with your audience - The Decker Grid: shift your message from self-centered, all about me content to relevant, audience-centered content that drives action You are called to communicate well. Not only on the main stage, under bright lights, but every time you speak with your colleagues, your clients, and other stakeholders. It's time to learn how. Stop informing. Start inspiring. BEN DECKER & KELLY DECKER are the leading experts in the field of business communication. They consult on messaging, cultivate executive presence among the leadership of Fortune 500companies and startups alike, and regularly deliver keynotes to large audiences. Together, they run Decker Communications, a global firm that trains and coaches tens of thousands of executives a year. Ben and Kelly live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where they constantly test and refine communication techniques with their most demanding audience, their three boys."

Ben Decker, Kelly Decker (Author), John Brancy (Narrator)

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Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: A Blueprint for Transformation from the Mayo Clinic Center for In

"The Only Innovation Guide You Will Ever Need--from the Award-Winning Minds at Mayo Clinic A lot of businesspeople talk about innovation, but few companies have achieved the level of truly transformative innovation as brilliantly--or as famously--as the legendary Mayo Clinic. Introducing Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast, the first innovation guide based on the proven, decade-long program that’s made Mayo Clinic one of the most respected and successful organizations in the world. This essential must-have guide shows you how to: - Inspire and ignite trailblazing innovation in your workplace - Design a new business model that’s creative, collaborative, and sustainable - Apply the traditional scientific method to the latest innovations in 'design thinking' - Build a customized toolkit of the best practices, project portfolios, and strategies - Increase your innovation capacity--and watch how quickly you succeed These field-tested techniques grew out of the health care industry but are designed to work with any complex organization. Written by three Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation insiders--Dr. Nicholas LaRusso, Barbara Spurrier, and Dr. Gianrico Farrugia--the book offers a wealth of transformative ideas and strategies. The concise, easy-to-implement methods can help jump-start your employees' creative potential, involve them in the collaborative process, and pave the way to the future of sustainable innovation. You get step-by-step advice on building leadership teams, accelerator platforms for speeding up results, and fascinating case studies of innovation in action from the files of the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. In today's fast-moving world, it's innovation that drives success. This book gives you the keys. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THINK BIG, START SMALL, MOVE FAST: 'Truly great organizations do not just achieve great results; they are also relentless in the pursuit of continual improvement. This book offers both methods and motivation to leaders in any industry who understand that the pursuit of excellence is never-ending.' -- Donald Berwick, M.D., MPP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement 'Do you want your organization to deliver a shockingly better customer experience? Here is Mayo's method that transformed the patient experience by making innovation systemic, the human side of innovation.' -- Scott Cook, Cofounder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit 'A powerful set of actionable, yet importantly nonprescriptive, principles for transformative change that will inspire and challenge all of us to reenvision a system that delivers health, not just care, for all our patients.' -- Rebecca Onie, Cofounder and CEO, Health Leads 'This book should serve both as a how-to guide for medical professionals and an inspiration for other innovators all over the country.' -- T. R. Reid, reporter and author of The Healing of America 'Powerful insight on how to deliver meaningful innovations time and again.' -- Frans van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips 'Leaders who seek to accelerate new innovation competencies can benefit from this hands-on guide.' -- Sarah Miller Caldicott, great grandniece of Thomas Edison, and CEO, Power Patterns of Innovation 'Read this book. . . . Copy its practices. It will save you years of misery and missteps as you build your own innovation revolution.' -- Larry Keeley, Cofounder, Doblin Inc., and Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP"

Barbara Spurrier, Gianrico Farrugia, Nicholas Larusso (Author), John Brancy (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by John Brancy