How to Give a Technical Speech - Public Speaking Video Lecture - Public

so how do you give a technical speech
for starters you got to step back a
minute and really challenge your
assumptions I would submit to you you're
not really giving a technical speech
you're giving a presentation you're
giving a speech and it's about your
ideas whether the ideas are technical or
financial or theoretical that doesn't
matter the challenge is still the same
how can you get your audience to
understand one idea at a time and to
remember one idea at a time here's the
real problem with telling yourself
you're giving a technical speech once
you do that you give yourself a license
to do an incredible data dump and it's
boring and you're overwhelming your
audience now if you're an engineering
professor I understand you're gonna have
to do that but your class is highly
motivated they're writing everything
down they're ready for a test you're
going to give them but if you're giving
a presentation to work colleagues
clients prospects people in your
industry they're not writing down every
word you say so you've got to simplify
it narrow it down you've got to come up
with memorable examples stories visuals
for each technical point otherwise
they're not going to remember it your
biggest challenge as a speaker as a
presenter is getting people to remember
anything you're talking about and if you
just come in with a huge data dump
that's not going to work so you've got
to get rid of the mindset of a technical
presentation you're giving ideas and
you're using every tool imaginable your
words your stories your examples visuals
handouts focus on the ideas not whether
or not it's a technical speech