Tech Circus Masterclasses
Welcome to Tech Circus' first ever masterclass!
Following the success and feedback from our popular meet-ups and conferences here in the UK, Tech Circus (formerly The Digital Showcase) are launching a new exciting way to improve your technical and soft skills.
On an ongoing basis we will be teaming up with UX and Design luminaries from around the world, to offer practical, action-packed workshops for our design community.
These intensive day-long sessions will tackle specific areas of the UX, delivered by true masters in their field to ensure you walk out with the confidence in understanding and practical capability to deliver meaningful change in your work.
See you at the first session!
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Presenting Work with Confidence - Mike Monteiro
Of course you have good ideas. But it takes more than a good idea to command attention. You need to package your message and project confidence. Mike Monteiro will show you how.
The ability to turn a list of recommendations into a compelling story is the most critical skill that rarely gets taught—and never across disciplines. Designers learn to speak to designers, engineers to engineers, business leaders to each other, etc.
During this workshop, we’ll cover effective presentation techniques including:
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Confronting the terror of standing up in front of people
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Taking charge of any room
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Turning information and recommendations of any type into a good story for any audience
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Mapping your work to shared goals and objectives
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Asking for the right kind of feedback, and avoiding opening yourself up to stuff you don't need
In a single day, Mike Monteiro will turn you into the most confident and prepared version of yourself you can imagine.
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Everyone loves this workshop!
"The content was incredibly useful. I've mostly worked as a lone wolf in a sea of engineers and have been making it up as I go. Having some solid, easy to remember, principles for not messing up have already carried me through the last week of a pretty challenging project."
"It was a revelation!"
"I don't know how to choose just one favorite part."
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How your day will go
In the morning, Mike will explain the core principles of powerful presentations and share the mistakes most people make. Then, participants will have the opportunity to each give their own presentation and learn how to offer constructive critique.
The afternoon is for do-overs! Following the presentations and critique, each participant will be guided through refinement and given the opportunity to put the new techniques into practice. Everyone walks away a champion.
Because of the intensive, collaborative nature of the workshop, we keep each class size small.
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This workshop is for you!
Whether you’re a designer, a developer, an engineer, a product leader, or whatever funny name you’ve come up for yourself this week, your job includes having to convince someone of something. Time to do it better.
Bring this one small thing.
Be ready to give a 5-minute presentation. We will provide additional details to registered attendees in advance.
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Mike Monteiro is the co-founder and design director of Mule Design. He prefers that designers have strong spines. Mike writes and speaks frequently about the craft, ethics, and business of design.
He loves design so much he wrote two books on the topic, Design is a Job and You’re My Favorite Client, both from A Book Apart. Mike received the 2014 Net award for Conference Talk of the Year for his inspirational polemic on responsibility, “How Designers Destroyed the World.”
Learn more about Mike Monteiro.
