Online Training Course

Talking Technical - Professional Presentation Skills for Engineers

02 - 05 December 2023 | Online

Four session online training course (2 hours per session)

08:00 - 10:00 CET (Los Angeles) | 11:00 - 13:00 EST (New York)
16:00 - 18:00 GMT (London) | 17:00 - 19:00 CET (Berlin)

Learn simple strategies to captivate your audience, manage public speaking nerves, and present with effectiveness and confidence.

Technical Presentation Skills for Scientists and Engineers is a hands-on workshop that covers all the skills necessary to deliver technical presentations successfully.

During the workshop, all students will create and practice delivering technical presentations and receive feedback from the course instructor.

Course Objectives and Benefits:

T​o enable participants to gain the necessary skills to deliver successful in-person and virtual technical presentations confidently.

Participants will learn:

• How to acquire the requisite knowledge of their audience
• Proven methods to create and deliver in-person and virtual technical presentations
• By practicing and delivering in-class technical presentations

Who should attend?

• Engineers and anyone who has to deliver technical presentations in their positions.

What You Will Learn?

• Upon completion, students will understand ways to reduce their fear of public speaking,

• Learn methods to understand their audience
• Learn how to create, practice, and deliver 2 successful in-person and virtual technical presentations.

Course contents

• Why Excellent Technical Presentation Skills Are Essential to Your Career Advancement
• Getting noticed

• Increase esteem of colleagues and next-level
• Increase salary

• How to Reduce Your Fear of Public Speaking
• How to Acquire the Requisite Knowledge of Your Audience

• Talk to them
• Read what they are reading
• Do research on LinkedIn and other social media

• How to Create In-Person and Virtual Technical Presentations

• Presentation structure
• Mind storming
• Cards on the wall
• Openings/Closings
• Rhetorical devices

• How to Practice In-Person and Virtual Technical Presentations

• How to practice sitting down
• How to practice standing
• How to practice in front of a mirror
• How to practice in front of a live practice audience
• Audio/Video record yourself

• How to Deliver In-Person and Virtual Technical Presentations

• Gestures
• Eye contact
• Body language
• Avoiding verbal faux pas
• Openings/Closings
• Rhetorical devices
• “Apology Trap”
• Question & Answer Period
• Pauses
• How to tell a great story
• How to use humor

• Technical Presentation Preparation Exercise
• Student Technical Presentations

• Student delivers a technical presentation
• Group evaluation of technical presentation
• Instructor evaluation of technical presentation

• Question and Answer Period
• Course Summary
• Call to Action

About our Tutor:

Frank DiBartolomeo

Frank DiBartolomeo is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel. After his military service as an engineer, Frank worked in the Defense industry for several years as an engineer and technical leader.

His assignments in the military and industry included as a project engineer at the Air Force Avionics Laboratory, a special electronics programs engineer at the Pentagon, and, in industry, as the deputy lead engineer for a 300-person national security program.

Frank is an award-winning speaker, a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association, a member of Toastmasters International for over thirty (30) years, and founder and President of DiBartolomeo Consulting International (DCI), a technical presentation skills coaching company. He has coached hundreds of speakers and has delivered numerous public speaking seminars and workshops.

Because of his outstanding work in public speaking and leadership, Frank was awarded Toastmasters International’s highest individual award - Distinguished Toastmaster.

In 2007, he founded DiBartolomeo Consulting International (DCI), LLC, to help technical professionals inspire, motivate, and influence their colleagues and other technical professionals by improving their presentation creation, practice, and delivery skills.

Frank holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in information technology. He also graduated from the U.S. Air Force’s Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, and Air War College.

Frank and his wife Elaine live in Centreville, Virginia, and have two grown children, Frank and Jackie.

Course Detail:

Each of the attendees will receive a copy of the trainers book: Speak Well and Prosper: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Better Presentations for the course