Technical Presentation

Course ID : SSK-006

Duration In-class (в days) : 3 days

Duration Online : 3 days

Сurriculum : in-class, Virtual Instructor-Led Training - ONLINE

Overview

The course aims to teach the skills and methods necessary for comfortable planning, proper structuring of technical presentations and effective speaking.

Audience for this course

• IT specialists
• Technical specialists
• Employees whose work is related to the creation of presentations

Objective

To teach students to express clearly, confidently, and most importantly – with the achievement of the required impact on the audience and the necessary business result.

Outcomes

• Definition and formulation of the purpose of the presentation
• Planning your presentation by assessing the needs and preferences of the audience
• Definition of the target audience
• Keeping listeners’ attention
• Prepare to effectively solve problems that arise in the preparation and execution of a presentation
• Structuring and presenting a presentation for decision making

Outline

Module 1. Preparing a presentation

• Specifics of a technical presentation for different audiences
• The sequence of creating a technical presentation
• Structuring a technical presentation
• Variants and objectives of the technical presentation
• Formulation of the key ideas of the presentation
• Should I write and/or memorize the text of my speech?
• Presentation Time Allocation
• Introductory sentences: establishing contact with the audience
• Statement of the problem – what will be discussed, how can I be useful to you
• Key Points – Module Queue Logic
• Basic provisions – the final part
• Key points – advantages over competitors
• The Danger of Impressing the End of a Presentation Before It’s Finished
• Questions and answers – before the final phrases
• Summing up, conclusions, conclusion
• Contact information about the speaker
• Typical mistakes in structuring a presentation
• Exercises

Module 2. The Basics of Capturing Audience Attention

• Techniques for capturing audience attention
• Addressing an event, time, place
• Exercises

Module 3: Presenting technical information in plain language

• Too much technology
• Typical mistakes in technical presentations
• Examples of widespread illiteracy
• Difficulties in translating foreign terms
• Exercises

Module 4. PowerPoint – what to use and what not

• Presentation layouts
• Presentation design
• Typical errors
• Examples of Good and Bad Uses of PowerPoint

Module 5. First of all: think about how you look

• Working with speech and manner of presentation
• Criteria for clear presentation of information through speech
• Statement of speech
• Manner of presentation
• Parasite classification
• Typical errors
• Practicing diction
• Practicing correct intonation
• Emphasis on the key points of the presentation
• pauses
• Speaker’s facial expressions and perception of information
• Speaker posture and movement in the audience
• Rules for making eye contact with listeners
• Gesticulation as a way to increase efficiency
• Exercises

Module 6. Dealing with questions and difficult situations

• Algorithm for working with questions
• Basic principles for answering questions
• Question flow management
• Any question should work for you, not against you.
• How to buy time to think
• Tricky questions from the audience: how to be on top
• Typical mistakes when answering questions
• Examples of difficult situations
• Types of complex participants
• What to do if it is difficult or impossible to answer a question
• Exercises

Module 7. What can interfere with the presentation

• Punctuality
• Preparation and verification of readiness of technical means
• Verification of technical means
• Checking Audience Features
• Lighting test
• Visit effect

Module 8. Fear of public speaking

• Fundamentals of Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking
• Types of manifestation of fear
• External causes of unrest
• Internal causes of unrest
• Techniques for overcoming uncertainty
• Exercises

Module 9. Assessing Your Presentations

• Evaluation parameters
• Clarity of the purpose and objectives of the presentation
• The quality of presentation structuring
• The quality of speech production
• The correct choice of gestures and other expressive means of the speaker
• Presentation visual quality
• Level of contact with the audience
• Speaking Confidence Level
• Examples of presentations by experienced speakers

Final Recommendations