Create and Deliver Standout Technical Presentations
1h 22mGeneral2022-11-03
Authors
Melissa Marshall
Scientific Presentations Expert, Microsoft MVP
Course details
Important technical ideas and game-changing innovations can fail if they’re not understood and appreciated by others. In this comprehensive course, learn to create presentations that win minds and gain stakeholder support with help from Melissa Marshall, a PowerPoint MVP, author of the popular TED Talk “Talk Nerdy to Me” and consultant to NASA, Pfizer, Harvard Medical School, and other leading organizations. Melissa shows scientists, engineers, researchers, and tech professionals how to present scientific and technical content in an understandable, memorable, and persuasive way. Through Melissa’s engaging examples and practical strategies, gain a renewed enthusiasm and skill set for communicating your technical successes and expertise. After this course, you may never present your work the same way again.
Skills covered
Google SlidesKeynotePowerPointPresentationsAppleGoogleBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoftOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Communicating science matters
- 02 - The three principles of powerful communication
1. Tell a Clear Technical Story
- 03 - Audience-centric speaking
- 04 - Overcoming audience bias
- 05 - Reaching experts and nonexperts
- 06 - Filtering technical details
- 07 - Heads vs. hearts - Connecting with emotions
2. Transform Your Slide Design
- 08 - Challenging the status quo - Why bullet points don't work
- 09 - Brain hacks for slide design
- 10 - The assertion-evidence slide design
- 11 - A template beyond bullet points
- 12 - Creating a successful handout
- 13 - Gain attention with your title slide
- 14 - Make your agenda slide memorable
- 15 - Close with impact
3. Deliver Dynamically
- 16 - Effective pace enhances credibility
- 17 - Engage your audience with eye contact
- 18 - Be a tour guide with verbal pointing
- 19 - A blank screen is a power move
- 20 - A successful formula for transitions
Conclusion
- 21 - Science not communicated is science not done
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