LTEC 4121 Technical Presentation Skills Chapter 1 - Getting Started

1. Chapter 1
Getting Started
LTEC 4121
Technical Presentation Skills

2. “It usually takes more than three weeks
to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
- Mark Twain
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3. Chapter 1 Objectives
You will be able to:
Determine the purpose of your
presentation
Apply guidelines for choosing a
presentation title
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4. Murphy’s
Presentation
Law #1
“If anything can
go wrong during
your
presentation it
will go wrong.”
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5. What is Your Presentation Topic?
Think of your
presentation
as the delivery or
transfer of
information or
skills from
to the audience.
Information
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6. You Might Be Presenting:
Information about a new product
Details regarding some new technology
Information about a new manufacturing
process
A demonstration showing how to operate a new
piece of equipment
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7. Planning Your Presentation
The first step to planning your presentation
is to clarify your topic.
Answer these questions:
• What is the focus of your presentation?
• What is it that you want to share?
• What do those who will be attending want
or need to know?
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8. Planning Your Presentation
The majority of your presentations will
be knowledge-based. They focus on
Information.
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9. Planning Your Presentation
Skill-based presentations (demonstrations)
focus on how to perform specific skills or
procedures.
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10. Planning Your Presentation
Skill-based topics typically involve equipment,
Tools and machines.
For example:
•Install and start a pump
•Replace hydraulic cylinders
•Load computer software
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11. Planning Your Presentation
Attitude-based topics deal with attitudes
and feelings.
Safety
Leadership
Conflict Resolution
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12. Planning Your Presentation
Many presentations contain all three
elements:
Knowledge
Skills
Attitudes
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13. Guidelines for Choosing a Presentation Title
My Title
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14. Some Guidelines:
•Be honest
•Be creative
•Think about your intended audience
•Focus on the benefits of your presentation
•KISS approach
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15. Example:
“Engineering Teams”
Or improved title:
“Winning Season:
Building Effective
Engineering Teams”
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16. Extra! Extra! More Example Titles!
Use K.I.S.S. to change from:
“How to Talk Honestly and Openly to Your Office Coworkers” TO
“Workplace Communications: Tell it Like it is”
To tout the benefits and target the audience, go from:
“Troubleshooting Telecommunications Repair Issues” TO
“Keeping Customers Connected: New Developments in Telecommunications
Troubleshooting”
To be creative:
“The Safe Use of Storage of Hazardous Materials” TO
“HAZMAT: Your Worst Nightmare of Safe Workplace Dream”
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17. Presentation Fact
The most popular times for presentations
are mid-to-late morning and mid-afternoon.
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18. Murphy’s
Presentation Law
#2
“The number of
things that go
wrong is inversely
proportional to the
amount of time you
invest in planning.”
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19. Proper
Prior
Planning
Prevents
Poor
Presentations
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20. Chapter Review
•Define the purpose of your presentation
•Select the topic based on that purpose
•Develop an effective presentation title
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21. BONUS: Key Ideas to Give Key Presentation
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More
Persuasive
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22. Chapter 1: The End
To Complete:
• Discussion Module 1
• Assignment #1
• Assignment #2
• Create a YouTube
Account NOW!
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