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Introduction

2:01 with Dan Gorgone

Presentation skills should be used to prepare and deliver relevant content, and compel the audience to take action.

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    be successful with your career, any type of career really, it's important 0:04
    to match up your hard skills with a set of soft skills. 0:08
    And one type of soft skill I'd like to focus on here is something 0:12
    that many devs and designers need all the time, although you might not realize it. 0:15
    Presentation skills. 0:20
    When I refer to presentation skills I'm not just talking about preparing a 0:21
    keynote or a PowerPoint deck and then showing it to an audience, although that's 0:25
    certainly included here. Presentation skills refers to your ability 0:29
    to prepare and deliver information of any kind to different types of audiences. 0:34
    Whether it's, say one person or could be a crowd of people. 0:40
    Now these skills come in handy in many different scenarios and if you've been 0:44
    building sites with a team or for clients, you'll understand what I'm talking about. 0:48
    And that's 0:54
    because presentation skills are also about influencing 0:54
    and audience, compelling them to take action. 0:59
    It's not just about delivering the information. 1:02
    You want to get your audience to do something. 1:04
    To react in a certain way. 1:06
    And it's all based on the information and the data that you're providing. 1:08
    So when you make a pitch to an investor, or you present a project proposal to 1:13
    a prospective client. 1:20
    Even if you're meeting someone for the first time and you're describing 1:21
    what you do in the hopes that you can work together, you're 1:24
    using presentation skills and we're going to go over some of those 1:26
    skills today because they're going to make your talks that much more effective. 1:30
    But before we move further, I just want to reiterate these three key 1:35
    points, because they're kind of, they're gonna kind of be the structure for the 1:40
    talk today. 1:45
    And that is, prepare information, deliver information, 1:45
    and compel your audience to take action. 1:49
    If you can do these three things, When your developing a presentation or a 1:51
    talk of your own it's going to be awesome and it's gonna be effective 1:56

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