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Teams that can present technical concepts clearly and simply, achieve more.
It’s much easier for our clients to buy ideas when we can make them simple. Teams that are good at delivering technical presentations have stronger client relationships and larger sales figures!
This delivering technical presentations training course is designed to give your teams (whether they are technical, digital, creative or all of the above!) the tools to explain any topic to any audience, simply.
What does this course cover?
This training session will provide your team with the opportunity to discover, and practice, a range of presentation techniques that support clarity and understanding.
Specifically, expect to discover:
- What makes information difficult to understand and remember?
- Why so many experts are poor communicators?
- When to keep it simple, and when to go in-depth
- 7 techniques used by the greatest speakers to make the complex, clear.
Who is the technical presentations course designed for?
This course is really useful for anyone that has to regularly communicate technical and complex concepts to a novice audience.
This means that it is beneficial for everyone from technical production and research teams, right through to salespeople and account managers.
Often, the most productive groups are a mix of deeply technical staff and their peers from other departments. The combination of the different focuses from the two groups provides an excellent base for exploring the topic.
"One of the best, if not the best course I can remember attending and I look forward to the next two sessions. I wish I had the opportunity to do this years ago!"
Nigel Wright, Engineering Manager, Insensys
Delivering Technical Presentations - Course Agenda
Getting started
- Warm-up and a quick exploration of simple communication
Discovering best practice
- What makes a great technical speaker? Who does it well / poorly currently?
- What concepts / ideas / themes are particularly challenging for us when presenting?
Understanding the challenge
- Why are some topics trickier to present than others?
- What is success when presenting technical concepts?
- How do we understand our audience's needs?
Formatting content for our audience
- How do we interpret information?
- What stops us from successful understanding?
- What content techniques can we use to enhance clarity, simplicity and understanding?
Increasing our effectiveness through delivery
- How can our delivery detract from our goal of understanding?
- How can we use our delivery to enhance our message?
The 'learning by doing' bit
- Create and deliver a short presentation
- Evaluation and feedback from everyone - refine your own skills by evaluating the performances of others
How do we make this technical presentations course the very best?
We support you with lots of added value to make the learning as effective as possible. It's like having your own Learning and Development department within your own organisation. This is all included within the standard rate for a day of training.
Research
We complete online surveys, interviews and more to understand the needs, confidence and existing skills of all of your learners.
Tailoring
Using the research findings, we create unique training content and activities to help them develop these skills in the most engaging way.
Coaching
Every participant receives a 30 minute one-to-one presentation skills coaching session in the weeks and months that follow the initial training.
Video analysis
Everyone learner is filmed delivering at least one presentation or speech. After the session, they will receive feedback directly from Rich and a copy of their video.
A library of resources
All learners have access to all of the materials, worksheets and content from our sessions PLUS infographics, videos and articles on all areas of public speaking.
Embedding the learning
In the weeks and months after the training we will measure and report upon the learners' understanding of the topics covered, and how they have applied them to their day-to-day roles.
Discover more about your public speaking trainer
Rich Watts is a public speaking consultant and trainer, a past winner of the UK Business Speaker of the Year, a JCI UK Public Speaking Champion and most importantly, loves helping others to develop into outstanding public speakers.
Explore our Case Studies
We work with a wide-range of organisations across the UK. Like you, they are all forward-thinking and keen to boost the communication skills of their team.
What other courses and topics do we cover?
We cover public speaking and presentation skills from beginning to end. From junior to senior. From good to great.
Explore the courses below to discover areas that we have developed in-house public speaking training solutions for in the past.
