Technical Presentation Skills
OVERVIEW:
Technical Presentation Skills will create positive behavioral change and increase critical awareness to deliver successful and engaging technical presentations. This is a two day, in person, skill-building workshop for professionals who make formal or informal presentations, particularly delivering complex data. The ability to present information and ideas effectively is a critical success factor in business. The challenge becomes more difficult when one must present highly technical information to diverse audiences with varying knowledge levels and technical expertise.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Project confidence, build credibility, address nervousness, and manage distractions through skillful use of eye contact, posture, gestures, voice, pausing and rhythm, etc.
- 12 major learning exercises (8 video-recorded, 6 interactively coached),
- Best practices for online presenting
- Personal video-recording, with private viewing immediately after practicing
- Facilitated group feedback on content, clarity and memorability, presentational style, interaction and difficult questions, expectations and listener awareness issues
- Customizing presentations for the intended audience
Content, Clarity & Impact
- Communicate information versus dry facts and data
- Balance amount of content with allotted timeframe
- Prioritize important points and data for emphasis
- Persuade without selling
- Ensure clarity and memorability of key information
Listener Adaptability
- Use listener analysis tools to set correct levels of detail
- Adjust your detail and technical levels for various listeners
- Clarify critical listener-focused, take-away points
- Minimize extraneous information
- Apply viewer-appropriate visual support strategy
Interaction Management
- Handle difficult questions and challenges
- Generate listener involvement
- Stay on track and reinforce key messages
Command of Behavioral Skills
- Project and inspire confidence and conviction
- Eliminate distracting idiosyncrasies
- Manage nervousness
