Effective technical Speaking and Presentations
- 1. How to reach both technical and non technical people in your audience EFFECTIVE TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS By: Doug Norton
- 2. Presentation with punch! How to make your audience remember your presentation, and recommend you!
- 3. First things first What is it that keeps most of us from making an effective presenting? Fear of looking foolish Fear Fear of criticism Fear of speaking in public
- 4. Fear, the great paralyzer You audience is not afraid, why are you? Being nervous is normal Over time, and with practice it fades and is replaced with confidence! Practice in front of people. Start with friends and colleagues. Pay attention to the presentation of others. You may learn techniques that will serve you well.
- 5. Top fears that most face Public Speaking Flying Medical blunder Pain through accident Death What, people fear Public speaking more than death?
- 6. How to get to the big league? (or what to do about it?) No one was born a good doctor, lawyer, engineer or public speaker. It takes training and practice. Take every opportunity to speak that you can get. Get feedback on your performance . Fix the flaws, one at a time. Or Golfer either
- 7. Types of presentations! Yes there are different kinds
- 8. Purpose of the presentation Teach Inform Persuade
- 9. Teaching The completion of a sale and you are telling your customer how to operate the equipment, maintenance and safely protocols. This is an example of a pure teaching presentation.
- 10. Informing In an informing presentation you may be telling your colleagues the status of a project, or reporting the status of a repair procedure. It is designed to convey important information that is of a mix of technical and status type information.
- 11. Persuasion Here is where the rubber really meets the road. This is to change a direction. Examples would be a sales presentation against competition, a repair that has more than one solution or a make or buy decision.
- 12. You are in an elevator And you want the person that you are talking with to remember you, what have you got? Maybe 30 seconds? That was 30 seconds by the way
- 13. Why is 30 seconds important? If you can get your audiences attention in the first 30 seconds, you have them for your presentation. If you don’t , you might as well pack up your projector!
- 14. Punch the message first! In the first 30 seconds, deliver the hook that will get there attention for the rest of the presentation. Oh yeah, you must maintain interest as well, you can still loose them you know! But if you don’t get their attention at the beginning your hill will be very steep.
- 15. Example hook In this presentation you will learn ways that you can impress your boss
- 16. or Factors that may save your plant from closing
- 17. The essence of the benefit The hook is the essence of the benefit of your presentation. It should not be an exaggeration nor a lie. It should fairly represent the benefit in terms that are emotional and interesting. It should also leave a feeling of what happens next!
- 18. How do you know what your audience will be like? Research, make sure you know to whom you will be speaking, suits or coveralls! Technically savvy or non technical
- 19. Are you a subject expert? Chances are that you are an expert Who is your audience Peers, experts in their own rights? Newbies, have never seen what you are presenting? Mixed crowed, some peers and some newbies?
- 20. Examples: The following few slides are from a subject expert. It is obvious from the content that they know what they are talking about Yet…
- 22. Visual Disagreement The text is simple enough, but the graph? What does it tell you? What are the two lines for? The text on the The data on the chart chart, if you can read does not reflect the it, is in German. statement in the text!
- 23. Examples: Part Two Visual impact is also important
- 25. Examples: Part Two Visual impact is also important But not at the expense of clarity of the message. The text must not be obscured by the graphics, and the backgound for the text must have sufficient contrast that the text is not lost in the clutter.
- 26. And one more thing. What does PV= 1/3 Energy Gain vs. Solarthermal mean?
- 27. Examples: Part Two You have to be sure that the message that you are conveying is clear to all the readers Avoid ambiguous messages Avoid complex explinations Remember the 30 second rule? A slide should present the message in 5 seconds. The reader should not spend so much time that they are not listening to the presenter.
- 28. As in all endings there is another story that follows. Call Doug Norton 905 409 8487 for the part where your story comes in.
- 29. Contact Doug Norton at 647 295 2051 Or at [email protected]