ACT SEMINAR Requirements

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ACT SEMINAR Requirements

• You will need
• paper
• something to write with
• a stapler
• staples to load it with

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T

• Sunday Seminars at TUG 2007
• now an ACT Seminar
• in 3 Parts

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You Can Engineer

• (But Can You Talk About It?)

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What can we do in 180 minutes?

• We can Answer three questions
• 1st Hour - TODAY!!!!
• How do you target your Audience?
• 2nd Hour
• How do you ensure a good presentation?
• 3rd Hour
• How do you improve the Presenter?

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Targeting your Audience

• (forget yourself)

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forget myself?

• What does this mean?
• You know your topic. You know it so well that
• asking if you understand your slides is a waste
  of
• time.
• Of course YOU understand everything YOU worked
• so hard on! So, forget YOU!
• Worry about the people who might not
  understand...
• your Audience.

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Targeting your Audience

• target
• One to be influenced or changed by an action or
• event. A desired goal.
• tr.v. targeted, targeting, targets
• 1. To make a target of.
• 2. To aim at or for.
• 3. To establish as a target or goal.
• Idiom on target
• Completely accurate, precise, and/or valid
• The Presentations were right on target.

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Targeting your Audience

• The Audience is to be influenced or changed by
• your presentation.
• 1. You need To make a target of the Audience
• 2. You need To aim for Audience understanding
• 3. You need To establish the Audience's
  understanding as your target or goal.
• You need your presentation/paper to be completely
• accurate, precise, or valid right on target.

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Who Are Your Audience?
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Who Are Your Audience?

• Who are you trying to communicate with ?
• Does everyone speak the same language ?
• Does everyone define words the same way?
• An American says "eventually" meaning
• "not now but later". To French ears it means
• "maybe".
• An American says "I can" meaning "I volunteer".
• To Chinese ears it means "I am able but I have
• not volunteered to do it"

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SO...You think you can Target Your Audience?

• Exercise 1
• Step 1 - Seminar Participants will attempt to
  target various audiences using a piece of paper
  on which they have written the following letters
  in a column A through J. On the next page is a
  photo of audiance "A". The rest will follow.
• Step 2 - On the page following the audiance
  photo is a list of things a presenter might say
  or do. Match each saying to the audiences you
  have just written down.
• (You can write the numbers next to each letter
  to make it easy)

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A
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

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B
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

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C
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

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D
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

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E
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

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F
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

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G
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

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H
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

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I
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

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J
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What the Presenter ShouldSay or Do

• Its Time for A Break
• Avoid Religious Issues
• Avoid Gender Issues
• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Racial Issues
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Avoid Political Issues
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Consider Dietary Issues (for food provided for
  your Audience)
• Thank You Coming Here Today

STOP!
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Answer For EVERY Audience

• Let Me Get Straight to The Point.
• Avoid Complex Vocabulary
• Avoid Religious, Gender, Political, Racial Issues
• Watch Your Audience
• Its Time for A Break
• Ask Your Audience
• Is the Temperature in Here OK?
• Consider Dietary Issues for any food provided for
  your Audience
• Thank You for Coming Here Today

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Who's Your Audience at Teradyne?

• Engineers
• Multi-cultural
• Multi-linguistic
• Multi-generational
• From different educational systems
• With different levels of experience
• With experience in different areas ...

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What if You...

• ...are trying to target these Engineers?
• ......Hmmmmm, this target is not narrow.
• In fact, it is very broad...
• So What Do You Do?

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How do You Target a WIDE Audience?

• SIMPLE
• Make Your Presentation clear to all levels of
• understanding, linguistic ability, and expertise.
  
• BUT, HOW ?

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How? First...

• Answer ALL of these questions in your
  presentation
• What are you going to tell the Audience about?
  What is your topic?
• INTRODUCE
• How will your topic be useful to them?
• INTEREST

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How? First...

• Answer ALL of these questions in your
  presentation
• What will they get to take home with them?
• MOTIVATE

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How? First...

• Answer ALL of these questions in your
  presentation
• What can you do in a mere 20 minutes?
• EXPLAIN
• What can you NOT do in a mere 20 minutes?
• EXPOUND
• What can they do to learn more on your topic?
• EXTEND

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How? Second....

• Consider using a written handout
• For Engineers who read better then they "hear"
  your language
• To provide a clear formulas and equations from
  your rapidly changing slides
• To give the Audience a problem to work from your
  topic
• To provide "notes" so Audiences can listen
  instead of write
• To explain complex concepts to less experienced
  Audience members
• To give advanced engineers more specifics then
  time will allow

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How? Third...

• Use clear, concise language
• Speak slowly and clearly
• Use one word instead of three
• Delete unnecessary adjectives
• Use common language but no slang
• Define all abreviations, acronyms and terms
• Every time
  you use them
• OR
• Provide
  a glossary up front
• OR
• Dont use them

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SO...You think you are Right on Target.

• Demonstration
• Everyone was asked to bring a stapler and
  staples to this ACT seminar. Please get out your
  stapler and empty it of staples. Please be
  prepared to reload your stapler.
• As seminar leader I am going to take you all
  through a simple task. All I ask is that you do
  exactly what I say and nothing else.
• NOTHING ELSE

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Follow these instructions EXACTLY

• Grasp the stapler by the top and the bottom.
• Pull apart until the stapler opens.
• Drop the staples into the space.
• Close the stapler by pushing the top and bottom
  together.
• If your stapler is not correctly loaded, please
  tell me.

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Follow these instructions EXACTLY

• If you have a Boston model 50 stapler
• On the end opposite where staples come out is a
  silver button which says "Press"
• Press the "Press" button
• A silver staple bar slides out the opposite end
  of the stapler
• The staples should be placed carefully over the
  sliver staple bar so the bar fills up the
  interior of the "U-shaped" staples.
• Using one finger gently push the silver staple
  bar back into the stapler until you hear it click
• Your stapler is now ready to staple
• Now you have seen the very real struggle to be
  completely accurate, precise, and/or valid
  right on target

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Now You Know how to TARGET

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