Big Ideas Workshop: Crafting your TED-style Talk, your Next Design Pitch, or Stage Presentation

DESMA 865.10

Gain presentation skills that will serve you the rest of your career and beyond.

What you can learn

Gain presentation skills that will serve you the rest of your career and beyond
Inspire change by learning to make a compelling argument
Explore best practices for advocating for your ideas
Enhance and refine your presentation literacy
Learn to clear out the noise and articulate your ideas clearly

About this course:

We all have a unique insight or a ‘Big Idea’ that could change the world and/or get you a green light on your project. The potential to inspire change depends on our ability to identify, articulate, and distill that insight for an audience of one or one thousand. This 5-meeting workshop will use the process of building a Ted-style talk to refine presentation literacy, enhancing everything from a design presentation to a ‘Big Idea’ that could change the world. Prior to the first class, students will submit an existing or early-stage talk or presentation idea to the first class meeting, working toward a 5 to 12-minute talk/presentation that crystalizes and articulates their ‘Big Idea’. Learn to engage your audience, ignite curiosity, overturn our expectations, and provoke the unexpected response in the service of a call to action. Learn from Greg Germann, a TEDxUCLA coach who helps speakers and designers craft some of the most powerful talks we have produced for UCLA and the TEDx platform.