Preparing Powerful Presentations
This is a class for technical people - both individual contributors and managers - who want to improve their ability to get messages across to management in project review and project proposal presentations. By examining the differing perspectives of business-focused and technology-focused people, you'll learn to focus your presentation on the results you want to achieve and condense it for effective communication to sponsors, executives, customers – people with the power to advance your project and your career.
Course Objectives
Upon completion, participants will be able to:
- Follow a nine-step process to prepare concise and effective presentations.
- Explore the differing perspective of business managers and technology people
- Translate technical terminology into business benefits.
- Identify the desired outcome of the presentation in terms of audience response, and develop an effective strategy for meeting audience needs while obtaining their goal.
- Condense their content into a memorable message, appropriate to the level and interests of the audience.
- Focus on high value information – recommendations, evaluations, breakthroughs, surprises – rather than simply doing a “data dump.”
- Develop an interest-building opening and decisive close.
- Organize and prepare presentation materials for lean and effective overhead slides and screen shows.
- Learn methods to introduce complex information in forms the audience can grasp.
- Increase theirPowerPoint productivity.
- Field questions confidently, and learn techniques to deal with hostile questions and presentation “hijackings.”
Instructors
ROXANNA DUNN holds a Masters in Education and an MBA in Information Technology. She spent 20 years managing engineers at Hewlett Packard Company, including a number of years developing business systems architectures. She weaves the conceptual view of academia with the real-world view of corporate experience and the integration view of architecture. Her emphasis is on how management methods connect long-range, high level plans with daily, individual activities.
8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Cypress Semiconductor
University Training Room
198 Champion Court
San Jose, CA
Onsite Delivery
Contact: info@effectivetraining.com
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