From the course: Create and Deliver Standout Technical Presentations
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Reaching experts and nonexperts
From the course: Create and Deliver Standout Technical Presentations
Reaching experts and nonexperts
- One of the most challenging types of audiences that you'll encounter as a technical speaker is also a very common one, the diverse technical audience. This is an audience that contains both experts and non-experts. And this can feel a bit like a no-win situation for the presenter because you're probably wondering, how can you satisfy both? How can you provide enough technical information to convince the expert, while not overwhelming and losing the non-expert? In this lesson, I'm going to teach you a strategy that will enable you to successfully navigate between expert and non-expert audience members in the same presentation. This strategy revolves around what we will call points of common ground. A point of common ground is something that everyone in the audience, regardless of background, can understand. Now, most presenters know to start in this place. Presenters typically do a good job of establishing importance or…
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