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Stansbury Podcast - Feb 2022
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<blockquote data-quote="BuzzDraft" data-source="post: 869586" data-attributes="member: 2812"><p>It was still a requirement to pass one or the other in the latter 70s and early 80s. My aunt was an english professor at Loyola University so I damn sure had to have good grades in english as a kid, so I was always a good writer. So I took the Public Speaking elective (less homework interfering with my EE studies). It changed my life, really. It gave me confidence to address a large group of strangers and organize my presentations. My career took off when management realized I had the technical expertise but also the ability to communicate well and influence people... they put me in front of defense research sponsors at technical conferences, and when I went "Pro" in commercial engineering and software companies I became the go-to Sales Engineer and also taught product and best-practices training courses. I developed the ability of explaining very technical concepts in ways that non-technical executives and other decision makers can clearly understand. I once gave an Air Campaign Planning software system demonstration to the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (a 4-star, with a 3 star general who was head of the Defense Intelligence Agency carrying his bags!) in a field tent at a live-fire artillery and armor exercise near the Fulda Gap/Czech border in Grafenwoehr Germany.</p><p></p><p>Now I mentor the younger crowd in dealing face to face with difficult customers and building their confidence also. Passing it forward...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BuzzDraft, post: 869586, member: 2812"] It was still a requirement to pass one or the other in the latter 70s and early 80s. My aunt was an english professor at Loyola University so I damn sure had to have good grades in english as a kid, so I was always a good writer. So I took the Public Speaking elective (less homework interfering with my EE studies). It changed my life, really. It gave me confidence to address a large group of strangers and organize my presentations. My career took off when management realized I had the technical expertise but also the ability to communicate well and influence people... they put me in front of defense research sponsors at technical conferences, and when I went "Pro" in commercial engineering and software companies I became the go-to Sales Engineer and also taught product and best-practices training courses. I developed the ability of explaining very technical concepts in ways that non-technical executives and other decision makers can clearly understand. I once gave an Air Campaign Planning software system demonstration to the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (a 4-star, with a 3 star general who was head of the Defense Intelligence Agency carrying his bags!) in a field tent at a live-fire artillery and armor exercise near the Fulda Gap/Czech border in Grafenwoehr Germany. Now I mentor the younger crowd in dealing face to face with difficult customers and building their confidence also. Passing it forward... [/QUOTE]
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