Public speaking for technical people: Improve your skills to be heard and be valued

Presented at Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017), Aug. 4, 2017, 6:50 p.m. (180 minutes)

As a technical person, you work with complicated and often important matters. Public speaking is essential to get your message across, be heard, and be valued. In this workshop, you will improve your public speaking skills. The workshop is based on the methods of Toastmasters International. #Training As a technical person, you work with complicated and often important matters. To explain these, get your message across, raise your value and get a better job, it is essential that you can communicate your message to a wider audience. If you cannot effectively explain your solution or your issues to other people you will end up frustrated and unrecognized. Even for educating and training your peers, public speaking skills are very important. In this workshop, you will improve your public speaking skills. We will practice and evaluate and practice some more. Your workshop leader is a professional trainer, and an advanced member of Toastmasters International. Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization for the purpose of helping members improve their communication skills. More than 300.000 members are organized in around 15.000 member clubs globally.

Presenters:

  • Peter HJ van Eijk
    Peter van Eijk is one of the world's most experienced independent cloud trainers. Before that he worked as an IT strategy and risk consultant at a big four firm, and did lots of other different interesting jobs. Other than that he is a small time hacker.

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