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Presentation Strategies for Technical Professionals On-Site Training

Effective Presentation Skills are essential for technical professionals to communicate their data, statistics, and facts in a well organized concise manner to both the technically sophisticated and technically challenged

Course Description/Agenda


Length: 3 days 
Number of Participants: 12-15
Materials: Notebooks and handouts provided


  Effective Presentation Skills are essential for technical professionals to communicate their data, statistics, and facts in a well organized concise manner to both the technically sophisticated and technically challenged.

The key is to communicate clearly, concisely, and with confidence. Unfortunately, too many technical presentations fail to get the message across; too often, because many technical presentations are, simply put, boring.

There are several myths associated with technical presentations

  • Content is the only message
  • Audiences want all details
  • People expect technical presentations to be boring
  • Technical people expect to be lectured at
  • Data dumping is a requirement
  • The speaker is there to support his/her visuals
  • Visuals should predominate

Objectives

At the end of this seminar, each participant will successfully demonstrate in three separate presentations, the following:

  1. Enhancement of present skills and development of newly acquired presentation skills.
  2. A clear statement of objectives.
  3. Successful audience analysis and rapport.
  4. A variety of useful patterns of organizing and structuring presentations for variety and to aid retention.
  5. The principles of: Association; Primacy; Redundancy and Parsimony.
  6. Language use appropriate for an informative and a persuasive presentation.
  7. Specific abilities in demonstrating, observing and assessing non-verbal behavior to get the message across.
  8. Knowledge and skill in using the "art of persuasion" and its principles.
  9. Developing and using appropriate visual aids to enhance "getting the message across."
  10. Techniques to reduce anxiety.
  11. Maintaining credibility during the Q and A.

 

1. Identification of clear objectives for presentations.

2. Three communication components:

  • The audience - audience analysis
  • The speech - "Do's and Don'ts"
  • The speaker - The main message is you

3. Principles of:

  • Association
  • Primacy
  • Redundancy
  • Parsimony

4. Persuasion: Principles of:

  • Logic - "Logos"
  • Emotion - "Pathos"
  • Authority/Ethics - "Ethos"
  • Coercion

5. Kinesis - Body Language - Non-verbal behavior - Proxemics

6. Using visuals effectively

7. How to develop the opening, body, and conclusion of a presentation

8. Keys to maintaining attention and enhancing retention

9. "Thou shalt not bore"

10. Techniques to manage presentation anxiety

Methods

  1. Lecturette
  2. Small group work
  3. Management games
  4. Individual opportunity to prepare and deliver presentations
  5. Individual critique by seminar leader
  6. Video taping of each presentation for immediate feedback

Keys for Change

  1. Experiential learning in a non-threatening atmosphere
  2. Use of relevant company materials and topics as a basis for each presentation
  3. Immediate on-going feedback

 

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