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Design Project Management

The One-Minute Talk

Tips and practice for poster presentations and summary presentations.

And maybe even the odd job interview.

And the you’ll-never-guess-who-I-bumped into-and-shared-my-story-with-opportunity.

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Motivation for this Workshop

• Communicating effectively• Critical to career success• Opportunity to present yourself and sell your idea• Prepare a packaged presentation• Practice, Practice, Practice

• In front of the mirror• In front of your friends

• Never easy, You will get better with practice

• Today = Practice

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Instructions

• One person in each pair gives a one-minute talk while the other listens.

• The listener takes 2 minutes and writes a brief description of what they think their partner’s project is about.

• Switch roles and repeat.

• Exchange papers – how did you do?

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The Result

• Collect feedback from the group:• Did you have a good idea of what the project was all

about?• Did you have a good idea of what this person did?• What did you want to know that wasn’t covered?

• What would you think if…• …this were a career fair?• …this were a poster session?• …you were a faculty member and this student came

to ask you to support their project?

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Things to Consider

• Without preparation, this is difficult!

• How many of you…• Have had to do this before?• Had a 1-minute summary of your project prepared

prior to today?

• Think about why you might need a 1-minute summary, have something in mind for those topics.

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Specific to you/DPM/MSD

• Proposed project name, why it’s important, major technical challenges, what you hope to achieve, and how the faculty member could help.

• What your MSD project goal was, why you did it, what your role was, and the outcome (for poster session)

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Suggested formats…other situations

• What you did, why you did it, and why it matters

• What you did, why you did it, and what you learned

• What’s the problem, why it exists, what if it isn’t solved, recommended solutions, and expected benefits

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Planning Exercise

• Select target audience• Potential faculty champion/consultant• Poster session attendee (Imagine)• Career fair/job interviewer

• Plan speech• Brain-Dump• Streamline• Connect• Practice

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Tips

• Take a breath, think about what you want to say

• Say what you want to say with confidence• Make eye contact• Maintain a pleasant face • Listen to the response• Respond to questions

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…and…GO!

• Pair up with someone new.

• Each of you give your talk to the other

• Give feedback• What went well?• What could have gone better?

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Summary

• Communicating effectively• Critical to career success• Opportunities to present & sell yourself• Never easy, will get better with practice

• Questions? Comments?

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Rest of class

• Work time

• Questions?

• Next time: bring in-progress draft of PRP for peer review.