How to Deliver Technology Presentations Intro

So you’re going to give a technology presentation that’s great.

This course is going to walk you through all the steps you need to fulfill in order to give a great presentation.

But let’s step back a minute and really look at what our goals are.

You of course want to come across as natural relaxed comfortable confident because you can have great apps flying around.

But if you look scared stiff and nervous people aren’t going to notice your technology.

They’re going to be feeling sorry for you.

So that’s the first goal.

Looking comfortable confident and relaxed when you’re giving the presentation.

The second goal is to make sure people understand you.

Now you may be speaking to a highly technical audience and they know all kinds of jargon and tech terms that 99 percent of the people on the street don’t now.

That’s OK.

You’ve got to make sure your audience does in fact understand your terms.

Though that is a big challenge because you may be using these terms every single day but your clients your prospects others in the industry might not be familiar with them.

So that’s really the second goal making sure you’re understood.

The third goal is making sure people remember your messages.

Now you can give people every kind of technological whiz bang show special effects glitz glamour.

But if they don’t remember the message that your technology is dealing with haven’t accomplished much.

The fourth goal is to get people to take the actions you want.

You want them to purchase your new technology or to approve it or to implement it presumably.

Why else are you showing it presenting it demonstrating it.

So those are the four goals I find that everyone needs.

Who’s trying to give a technology presentation.

Guess what.

Those are also the goals people have for every type of presentation to the first thing I really want you to do is step back a minute and realize you’re not giving a technology presentation because there is no such thing as a technology presentation.

I know that sounds strange given the title of this course.

And yes some presentations involve more technology than others.

But fundamentally I want you to look at this from the standpoint of the audience member audience members when they’re watching you give a technology presentation or any other presentation are not thinking wow that’s a great technology presentation or wow that’s a great formal presentation or a fascinating PowerPoint presentation.

That’s not what audience members think they’re thinking oh this is interesting.

Let me pay attention this is useful.

I may even make a few notes or wow this guy T.J. is really boring.

Let me ignore him and check my email.

That’s the only thing ever going on in the mind of an audience member.

Now the reason that so significant is if you want to be a successful communicator when you’re giving a technology presentation you can’t paint yourself into a corner and say well now because I’m doing a technology presentation of course I have to turn my back and push three slides every two seconds and show people every single fact and number.

And bullet point 80 bullet points a slide to show the technology.

You can’t put yourself in that trap.

You have to again focus on what’s really important getting people to understand you and to remember your messages so they can take the actions you want.

So that’s the big picture.

I really want you to think of it’s still a presentation and it’s either going to be good and interesting or bad and boring.

From the audience.

So everything you do based on what I’m suggesting in this course what you’re analyzing of your own speech you need to look at it from that standpoint.

Is this good.

Is this interesting.

Is this memorable.

You can’t say yes to all of those questions then.

It’s not a good technology presentation.