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To

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be successful with your career, any type
of career really, it's important

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to match up your hard skills with a set of
soft skills.

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And one type of soft skill I'd like to
focus on here is something

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that many devs and designers need all the
time, although you might not realize it.

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Presentation skills.

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When I refer to presentation skills I'm
not just talking about preparing a

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keynote or a PowerPoint deck and then
showing it to an audience, although that's

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certainly included here.
Presentation skills refers to your ability

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to prepare and deliver information of any
kind to different types of audiences.

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Whether it's, say one person or could be a
crowd of people.

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Now these skills come in handy in many
different scenarios and if you've been

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building sites with a team or for clients,
you'll understand what I'm talking about.

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And that's

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because presentation skills are also about
influencing

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and audience, compelling them to take
action.

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It's not just about delivering the
information.

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You want to get your audience to do
something.

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To react in a certain way.

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And it's all based on the information and
the data that you're providing.

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So when you make a pitch to an investor,
or you present a project proposal to

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a prospective client.

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Even if you're meeting someone for the
first time and you're describing

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what you do in the hopes that you can work
together, you're

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using presentation skills and we're going
to go over some of those

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skills today because they're going to make
your talks that much more effective.

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But before we move further, I just want to
reiterate these three key

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points, because they're kind of, they're
gonna kind of be the structure for the

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talk today.

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And that is, prepare information, deliver
information,

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and compel your audience to take action.

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If you can do these three things, When
your developing a presentation or a

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talk of your own it's going to be awesome
and it's gonna be effective