Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals

Your technical skills and professional expertise are evidence of your ability to accomplish difficult tasks. Strong presentation skills can help you further advance your career. The ability to present articulately to customers, management, peers and others can significantly enhance your credibility, clout, and professional status. Delivering presentations at work or professional events is an unbeatable way to gain a reputation as a valued employee and an expert in your field.

If you have ever tried to get out of giving a presentation because of nerves, or if you feel there is room for improvement in your presentation techniques, then Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals is for you.

Invaluable tips

This book gives you invaluable tips on how to make your presentation clear and accessible, how to interact with your audience and how to retain their interest while keeping your anxiety under control. Naomi Karten has used her vast experience — both positive and negative — on the front lines of public speaking to provide key advice (and many chuckles!) in this engrossing read for the technical professional.

By following the advice contained this book, you can take the stress out of the exercise and start delivering presentations that will engage your audience and make your ideas and arguments memorable.

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• Make your presentation easy to absorb. This book shows you how to structure your information and ideas to ensure you communicate your message to your audience.
  
• Learn the pitfalls to avoid. However much time you have put into preparing the presentation, if you irritate your audience you can ruin all your hard work. This book reminds you of the bad habits, like mumbling or speaking in clichés, which you need to avoid if you want to make a good impression.
  
• Use PowerPoint effectively.  Presentations are often let down by slides which are dull or cluttered. Over-reliance on PowerPoint can mean that the slides become the focal point of the presentation, instead of helping to make what you are saying easier to grasp. This book shows you how to make intelligent use of PowerPoint. Presenting text in small chunks and using a readable type size are two simple ways to keep your audience listening.
  
• Deliver successful presentations to managers and customers. Different audiences require different approaches. This book contains essential advice on how to deliver presentations both to high-ranking executives and to customers. Get to the point, and satisfy your superiors. Speak the customer’s own language, and you are more likely to make the sale.

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What others are saying about this book ...

‘… It’s an easy and entertaining read, and I learned a lot… There is lots more great information about all aspects of presenting in this book. I highly recommend it to everyone who ever has to make a presentation’

Lisa Crispin, co-author of "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams”

'Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals by Naomi Karten is an expansive guide to honing the skills needed to wow an audience.'

Julian Goldsmith, CIO Magazine review - read the full review here

Use this invaluable resource of tried and tested advice to engage your audiences and take the stress out of presenting ... Buy this book today!

About the author:

Naomi Karten is a highly experienced professional speaker and seminar leader. Before forming her training and speaking business, Naomi earned degrees in psychology and gained IT experience in technical, customer support and management positions. Drawing on her psychology and IT background, Naomi now works with numerous organisations to help them strengthen communication and presentation skills, improve customer satisfaction and  manage change. She has given seminars and presentations to more than 100,000 people throughout Europe, the US and Canada, and is known for her ability to put across serious material with a light touch.