Gaining Influence Through Your Presentations: Technical Professionals
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3 Weeks
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Elevate your presentations. Inspire your audience. Sell your ideas. Build your brand. Transform your career.
Gaining Influence Through Your Presentations: Technical Professionals
4.9
(4 ratings)
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Elevate your presentations. Inspire your audience. Sell your ideas. Build your brand. Transform your career.
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Course overview
Mastering Technical Presentations: Sharper Skills for Impactful Communication
Technical professionals often face unique challenges when presenting complex information to diverse audiences.
This course is designed to empower you with the skills to deliver clear, engaging, and impactful presentations. Whether you’re explaining intricate data, sharing innovative ideas, or leading project updates, this course will help you communicate with confidence and precision.
You will learn:
1. How to Reduce Presentation Anxiety:
Techniques to calm your nerves before and during your presentation.
Strategies to build confidence through preparation and practice.
2. How to Structure Audience-Centered Presentations:
Frameworks for creating presentations that focus on your audience's needs.
Tips for making your content relevant and engaging to diverse audiences.
3. How to Design Effective Slides:
Best practices for creating visually appealing and informative slides.
Guidelines for using visuals to support and enhance your message.
4. How to Turn Data into Stories:
Methods for translating complex data into compelling narratives.
Techniques for highlighting key insights and takeaways.
5. How to Open and Close with Impact:
Ideas for starting your presentation with a strong hook.
Strategies for ending with a memorable and persuasive conclusion.
6. How to Handle Q&A with Ease:
Approaches for managing challenging questions and interactions.
Tips for staying composed and confident during Q&A sessions.
7. How to Speak with Presence:
Techniques for projecting confidence and authority.
Practices for improving your vocal and physical delivery.
8. How to Adapt for Virtual and Hybrid Environments:
Tools and tips for delivering effective presentations remotely.
Strategies for engaging virtual audiences and managing technology.
This course includes:
-10 self-paced instructional videos for you to use on your own schedule
-4 60-minute live, instructor-led workshops with Deborah Grayson Riegel to do a deeper dive into key concepts, and get feedback on presentation skills (for those who volunteer)
-20+ worksheets, frameworks, tools and takeaways to help you plan and present better before, during, and long after the course
-a supportive community of like-minded technical professionals
-lifetime access to the course
Who is this course for
01
Engineers and Developers who need to present technical solutions clearly and concisely.
02
Data Scientists and Analysts who need to convey data insights effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
03
IT Professionals who need to explain complex systems and processes in a straightforward manner.
What you’ll get out of this course
Apply techniques to achieve clarity, conciseness, and coherence in conveying complex technical information
Foundations of Clarity - Learn techniques to simplify and clarify complex concepts.
Techniques for Conciseness - Focus on streamlining content and delivering concise messages.
Structuring for Coherence - Develop skills for creating logical, coherent presentations
Analyze audience characteristics and adapt your presentations to suit different levels of technical familiarity and interest
Evaluate your Audience - Learn to identify audience demographics, technical backgrounds, and interests
Shape your Presentation: Use audience insights to identify key audience segments and tailor your presentations accordingly.
Create slides and visual aids that clearly present data and concepts, using principles of good design and visual communication
Making Information Visual - Learn to create charts, graphs, and infographics that clearly convey key insights and support your narrative.
Customize Your Slides - Create customized slides that resonate with highly technical teams to non-technical stakeholders
Engage audiences with voice modulation, pacing, articulation, and non-verbal communication to deliver confident and compelling presentations
Speak to Inspire - Develop dynamic vocal variety to keep the audience engaged.
Present with Presence - Utilize effective non-verbal cues to enhance message delivery.
Combat Anxiety - Apply strategies to reduce visible signs of nervousness.
Evaluate audience feedback and interaction levels and modify your presentations dynamically to increase engagement and participation
Read the Room - Develop the ability to accurately assess audience reactions and engagement levels in real-time.
Improve Adaptability - Cultivate the skill to adjust your presentation style and content on the fly based on audience feedback.
Synthesize technical information into clear, logical, and compelling stories that guide the audience through complex topics
Enhance Information Structuring- Transform dense technical data into a structured narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Apply Story Frameworks - Gain the ability to weave technical data into a compelling story that highlights the significance and impact.
Prepare for potential challenges such as complex questions, technical difficulties, and diverse audience dynamics
Master Tricky Questions - Anticipate 4 types of questions that may arise during your presentations.
Plan for the Unplanned - Learn to "go with the flow" when unexpected challenges happen
Manage Diverse Environments - Transition between in-person, virtual, and hybrid presentations
This course includes
4 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
30 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
Projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
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Gaining Influence Through Your Presentations: Technical Professionals
Course syllabus
Week 1
Sep
24
Mastering Slides, Stories, Starting, Stopping (and So Much More)
How to Reduce Presentation Anxiety
Using A.B.C. Goals to Structure Audience-Centered Presentations
What Slide Crimes are You Committing? How to Design Effective Slides
Want People to Follow You? Use Accessible Language
Week 2
Sep
30
The Technical Professional's Quick Start to Presenting Well to Any Audience
Oct
2
Practice Session - Present and Get Live Feedback (or Just Watch and Learn)
How to Turn Data into Stories
Organize Your Ideas to Make it Easy for Others to Follow
How to Open and Close with Impact
Week 3
How to Handle Q&A with Ease
Presentation Project: Get Real-Time Feedback on Your Public Speaking
Week 4
Oct
14
Pulling it All Together: 10 Tips, Tools and Techniques that Every Presenter Needs to Know
How to Speak with Presence
How to Adapt for Virtual and Hybrid Environments
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Meet your instructor
Deborah Grayson Riegel
Deborah Grayson Riegel is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant who has taught leadership communication for Wharton Business School, Duke’s Fuqua Business School, Columbia Business School’s Women in Leadership Program, and the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University.
She writes on leadership communication and presentation skills for Harvard Business Review, Inc., Psychology Today, Forbes, and Fast Company, and has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Deb's article, "Don't Underestimate the Power of a Walk" is in the Top 5 all-time most shared Harvard Business Review articles.
Deb is currently writing her 10th book, and is already the author of “Go to Help: 31 Strategies to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help” and "Overcoming Overthinking: 36 Ways to Tame Anxiety for Work, School, and Life" and consults and speaks for clients including Amazon, Google, Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, Johnson & Johnson, KraftHeinz, L’Oreal, Novartis, PepsiCo, and The United States Army.
When Deb isn't working, she is hanging out with her husband Michael, kids Jacob and Sophie, and rescue dog Nash. She loves true crime, the history of Saturday Night Live, gardening, dark chocolate, and Chapsticks.
You can find her online at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahgraysonriegel/
https://www.youtube.com/@Deborah-Grayson-Riegel
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Gaining Influence Through Your Presentations: Technical Professionals
Course schedule
1-2 hours per week
September 24, 2024
10:00am-11:00am EDT
September 30, 2024
10:00am-11:00am EDT
October 2, 2024
10:00am-11:00am EDT
October 14, 2024
10:00am-11:00am EDT
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Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
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