I work with a lot of consulting engineers and planners, and I’m consistently impressed with two things:

• How genuine they are in their desire to do good work in the face of project, client and internal challenges; and
• How perfectly awful most are at explaining the importance of their work.

As you might imagine, this hurts a lot of engineering firms when they’re out pitching new business.

The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (don’t you just love British place names?) has this helpful collection of presentation tutorials for engineers. Some good (albeit largely tactical) stuff worth reading. Not an engineer? Give presentations? Read it anyway.

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