Communication for Technical Professionals

How engineers, developers, and other tech professionals can get a message across clearly when talking to non-tech teams

Created by: Chris Fenning
Award-winning communication skills author & instructor

What Will I Learn?

• Talk to non-experts about your work in a way they will understand
• Learn a 5-part framework you can use in almost any communication situation at work.
• Discover how to create relevant messages, simplify complex ideas, and communicate them in a way that is jargon-free.
• Avoid these common problems: Too much detail , too much jargon, unclear presentations, and people not understanding you
• Work out the communication style that works best for your audience and gets your message across.
• You'll no longer suffer the frustration of other teams not understanding you.
• Say goodbye to the fear of presentation to senior leaders and have confidence your messages are understood.
• The result is anything you say will be understood by any audience.

Requirements

• The need and desire to communicate clearly with non-technical audiences
• Willingness to practice and apply what you learn
• An understanding that it takes time to practice the methods build new habits

Target audience

• Technical professionals that need to communicate with non-technical people
• Software developers, Engineers, IT Security specialists, Analysts, Data scientists
• Finance teams, lawyers, and subject matter experts struggling to communicate with people outside your area of expertise