Congratulations, you're an engineer and you want to be a better presenter, I commend you on this goal. But let's face reality, engineers have an awful, awful reputation when it comes to public speaking. And the reputation is that their head is down, and they're reading a whole bunch of notes, or they're going through PowerPoint, and they just lose people in the data. And guess what? There's no communication taking place. Let's not lose sight of what our goal is.

Our goal is to actually communicate ideas when we're speaking. It's not to just read through bullet points and data. Here's the big goal every time you speak. Number one, you want to come across as comfortable, confident, relaxed, your style, not my style, not a style like Reagan or Clinton but your style. The second goal is to make sure people understand you. The third goal is to make sure People remember your messages.

So that the fourth goal can happen. People can take the actions you want, they can approve the permit, they can approve the design, they can allocate the budget, you need to build this bridge. When we speak, we're doing so because we want people to do things, to enact our policies to give an approval to what we've already built or designed. So let's not lose sight of what our goals are in every single presentation. This course is going to teach you how to do it. Let's start now.