Presentation Skills for Data Professionals: Clear, Concise and Confident Presentations

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How You’ll Benefit:

  • Use preparation techniques to simplify, clarify, and engage your audience with your message
  • Learn messaging frameworks to organize your technical information so audiences can understand and retain it.
  • Enhance your credibility with a confident and authentic presence to engage your audience.
  • Learn the two key elements for creating powerful visuals and slides
  • Practice handling questions with confidence and clarity.

Who Should Attend:

  • This course is designed for engineers, technical professionals, and project teams who need to communicate their ideas, findings, or recommendations to mixed or non-technical audiences.
  • It’s also valuable for analysts, project managers, and technical leads who present data or project updates internally or to clients.

Workshop overview:

Technical expertise alone isn’t enough to make an impact — it must be communicated clearly. This workshop helps engineers and technical professionals transform complex information into clear, engaging messages that connect with any audience. Participants learn to analyze their audience, organize content using proven message structures, and simplify technical details without losing accuracy.

Through guided practice, they build confidence in delivery, use visuals effectively, and apply messaging techniques that make technical ideas understandable and memorable. The result: presentations that inform, clarify, and influence others toward action.

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Tools You’ll Receive:

  • Know–Feel–Do Model – Define what the audience should know, feel, and do after your presentation.
  • Audience Analysis (Who–Know–Care) – Assess audience knowledge and expectations to tailor content.
  • Message Builder Framework – Structure your presentation for clarity, logic, and flow.
  • What–Why–How – Explain technical concepts clearly and efficiently.
  • Good–Bad–New – Organize project updates in a logical, easy-to-follow order.
  • Confident Response Tool – Use a simple tool for confidently addressing questions from the audience to enhance your credibility.
  • Visual Slide Design – Apply the two best practices for simplifying complex visuals and data.
  • Delivery Skill Practices – Improve vocal presence, pacing, and body language for confident communication and powerful first impressions.

Concepts we’ll teach you (Objectives):

  • How to define a clear purpose and message for any presentation.
  • How to analyze the audience to determine the right level of technical depth.
  • How to apply message structures that simplify complex ideas.
  • How to respond confidently to audience questions.
  • How to use visual aids that support — not distract from — your message.
  • How to deliver technical content with confidence, clarity, and impact.

Classroom activities:

  • Audience Analysis Exercise – Evaluate audience types and expectations.
  • Message Structuring Practice – Build your message using tools like “Good-Bad-New”, “What–Why–How” and the Executive Quick Model.
  • Delivery Skills – Practice presenting with coaching and feedback.
  • Create and Deliver your Open and Close – Use simple tools to engage your audience at the start and close with confidence.
  • Final Presentation Exercise – Deliver a short presentation applying all learned tools.

Agenda

  • Topic 1: The Challenge of Technical Presentations – Why clarity matters and common pitfalls.

  • Topic 2: Delivery and Presence – Body language, pacing, and voice control

  • Topic 3: Audience Analysis – Understanding who you’re talking to and what they value.

  • Topic 4: Structuring Your Message – Using Message Builder, Good-Bad-New, What–Why–How, and the Executive Quick Model.

  • Topic 5: Visual Design for Engineers – Building slides that support your message.

  • Topic 6: Responding to Questions – Answering audience questions with confidence.

  • Topic 7: Practice & Feedback – Deliver and refine your technical presentation.

Delivery Format:

  • In-Person or Virtual

Duration & Structure:

  • 7 hour
  • Up to 10 participants

Targeted Reinforcement:

    1. Short Cut Card (Included): Quick reference guide of the tools and tips learned in class.
    2. iSpeak U Tool Library (Included): Access to the iSpeakU library of tools.
    3. AI iSpeak Coach for 30 days (Available for Additional Charge)
      • Scenario 1: Delivering Your Full Presentation: Present your complete message to a senior leader, using all the skills you've built—CABA opening, structured body, storytelling, Q&A handling, and a MAS close. Practice delivering with confidence and composure, even when facing a tough or unknown question.
      • Scenario 2: Delivering Executive Project Updates: Practice using the Executive Quick Model to present project updates clearly and concisely, ensuring senior leaders understand the data and its implications.
      • Scenario 3: Izzy's here to help with whatever presentation questions you have—big or small.  Want tips on opening or closing a talk? Handling tricky audience questions? Structuring your message so it sticks? Even explaining technical ideas to a non-technical crowd? We’ve got you covered. Izzy will also ask who’s in your audience and what you want to accomplish, so the advice is personalized just for you.