Making Your Next Technical Presentation Interesting

One of the most difficult types of presentations is a technical presentation. It is full of technical information and other information that is very hard to make thrilling to an audience that is sitting there and trying to stay awake. The biggest concern you should have when making a technical presentation is not to make it interesting but rather to decide what sort of action you want taken from the information which you present.

Consider Your Audience

When preparing your presentation, think about what course of action you want your audience to take following your presentation. In other words, what do you want them to do? Are you looking for discussion, decisions, some sort of agreement on a course of action, awareness, funding or participation? These are the things you need to ask yourself prior to the presentation. Perhaps you want a combination of several of these actions.

But go into it with these thoughts in mind and not with the mindset of entertaining your audience. If you go in with the entertaining mindset, your audience will find little things in the presentation that they want to nit-pick with you. Methods and how you arrived at a conclusion will be all that you will get by trying to make this subject interesting.

Mull over in your mind what questions the audience will need to have answered for them to take some sort of action. They don't necessarily need to think the same way that you do or even agree with everything that you said, but they do need to have the desire to take some action when you have finished. It is very similar to taking your car to a mechanic to have it fixed. After explaining what is wrong you want the mechanic to take the appropriate action to fix the problem. You don't want him to show you his scrapbook of past repairs or his endless list of things that he could check that have nothing to do with your problem. So, sometimes if you give the mechanic less information rather than more, it will head him in the direction which you would like him to go. It is the same with your audience.

According to MotivationalSpeakerz.com, mull over in your mind what questions the audience will need to have answered for them to take some sort of action. They don't necessarily need to think the same way that you do or even agree with everything that you said, but they do need to have the desire to take some action when you have finished. It is very similar to taking your car to a mechanic to have it fixed.

After explaining what is wrong you want the mechanic to take the appropriate action to fix the problem. You don't want him to show you his scrapbook of past repairs or his endless list of things that he could check that have nothing to do with your problem. So, sometimes if you give the mechanic less information rather than more, it will head him in the direction which you would like him to go. It is the same with your audience.

According to KeynoteSpeakers.info, you want to try to speak visually to your audience. This will help them greatly to understand what it is that you are saying. Bringing technical information into things that relate to everyday life will stimulate your audience and will be a very effective tool for you to use.

Here is a brief example. Let us say that I have a strong background in heat conductors but I need someone to provide funding for a better heat conductor. The obvious action is to have you fund the new heat conductor. Now here are the questions you will need to have answered to do that. What is the problem with the current heat conductors? How much better will the new ones be? How much money will it take to make the new ones happen? Those three questions should get people moving. Answer those questions and off you go.

Resources

https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-to-conclude-a-presentation