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Effective Technical Presentations
Speaking in front of a group and presenting
technical information is a talent most managers, scientists, engineers, and
technicians need, but few people are trained in this most critical area.
The results are predictable: Most
people hate speaking in front of a group, your work may not get the
recognition or understanding it deserves, and management, peers, subordinates,
and sometimes even customers miss opportunities to incorporate your ideas.
Effective
Technical Presentations is
a comprehensive and intensive 1-day training program that presents the
essential elements of preparing and presenting effective presentations.
The course focuses on the mechanics of a successful presentation,
including such topics as defining presentation content, establishing
audience expectations, organizing the presentation, gaining and
maintaining audience rapport, and overcoming speaker’s fear.
The course includes a roadmap for becoming an effective speaker and
developing dynamic presentations.
This course is aimed
at personnel in all organizational levels who give presentations to
clients, subordinates, peers, and managers.
| Prerequisites
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The
course assumes basic familiarity with MS PowerPoint.
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| Customize It!
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Add
a “workshop day” to the course to allow the participants to work
together to analyze presentation issues specific to your organization.
The workshop day can be scheduled a few weeks after the course
to allow time for applying the technologies presented in class under
an experienced practitioner’s guidance.
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Schedule
post-class follow-up consultation for ongoing presentations
improvement.
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| Learn How To
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Develop
effective technical presentations.
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Objectively
identify presentation improvement opportunities.
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Overcome
speaker’s fear.
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Identify
and meet presentation requirements from logistical, content, and time
perspectives.
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| Course
Outline
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Session
1: Presentations Overview
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Presentation
purposes
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Presentation
challenges
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Audience
expectations and speaker challenges
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Extemporaneous
speaking versus formal presentations
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Anticipating
likely questions
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Exercise
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2: Presentation Organization
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Message
definition
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The
three-step presentation process
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Defining
audience expertise and adjusting the level of detail
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Chronological,
cost, complexity, and significance approaches
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Meeting
your allotted time
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Rehearsing
Session 3:
Chartsmanship
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Fonts
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Word
charts
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X-Y,
bar, Pareto, histogram, and pie charts
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Flow
charts
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Tables
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Digital
images
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Mixing
text and graphics
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Exercise
Session
4: Digital images and movies
Session
5: Gaining and
Maintaining Audience Rapport
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Speaker
credibility
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Audience
expectations and your professionalism
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Eye
contact and volume
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Reading,
memorization, and audience involvement
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Body
language
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Gaging
audience reaction
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Using
humor
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Fielding
questions
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Exercise
Session
6: Overcoming Laliaphobia
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Laliaphobia’s
root causes
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Material
familiarity as a means of overcoming speaker’s fear
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Rehearsal
as a means of overcoming speaker’s fear
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Use
of presentation aids as a means of overcoming speaker’s fear
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Responding
to the audience expert
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Welcoming
questions as opportunities
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7: Logistics
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Arriving
early and meeting your time constraints
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Coordination
with other speakers
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Presentation
constraints, room challenges, and seating
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Using
pointers, handouts, presentation aids, props, questionnaires, and samples
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Chart
timing, backgrounds, transitions, and audio effects
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Hazards
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Viewfoils
versus computer projections
Session
8: Course Review and Critique
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| How You Will
Learn
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A
seasoned executive/consultant/instructor will present this course in
an interactive lecture and workshop format.
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Along
with the lectures, we use exercises, puzzles, case studies, and
interesting group activities to enrich the instruction and emphasize
the essential points.
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You
will receive a printed Participant Handbook that includes all
materials presented in class, which will help you remember and retain
what you learned and apply it on your job.
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You
will learn key manufacturing management concepts from theoretical,
practical, and organizational perspectives.
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