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Communication Skills for Engineers: Nerding Out at the Right Time
How you built it impresses other engineers. What it makes possible impresses everyone else. On explaining technical work to people outside your field.
11 min readWhat I actually tell people before they go on.
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Your hands are holding an imaginary watermelon
What happens when someone gets coached on gestures, and what to do instead. Start neutral, then gesture when you actually feel it.
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Stop ending with "does anyone have questions?"
The two phrases that guarantee silence, and what to ask instead if you actually want the room to talk.
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Three one-Mississippi
The pause that feels endless to you and reads as authority to everyone else. Three reasons to slow down and take the breath.
0:48Nothing filed under that yet.
Watching me explain a hook is useful. Writing one, delivering it badly, getting coached, and delivering it again is the part that changes how you present on a Tuesday. That’s the workshop.
Become unforgettable in rooms where it counts.
Tell me who the team is and what you want them doing differently. I build the session around those answers, and then read the room on the day.