Understand How to Communicate Complex Information to Lay Audiences - Free Course

In a time when experts are all too often ignored or misunderstood, communicating complex information accurately to inexperienced audiences is a prized skill. The course “Communicating Complex Information: Presenting Your Ideas Clearly and Effectively” will help your develop this skill. You will learn specific strategies to get your ideas across in a more impactful way; discovering how to organize your messages, techniques for explaining abstract ideas, and how to use and create visuals to enhance understanding.

This course is for anyone who has to explain new ideas to lay publics where there are vast differences between the speaker and their audience in their command of the content. It will be of particular use to teachers, scientists, communication experts, financial experts and medical experts.

Communicating Complex Information: Presenting Your Ideas Clearly and Effectively – Course Content

This course will enable you to understand how to communicate complex information to lay audiences and develop your professional communication skills. The course includes the following topics:

Three different explanation models: quasi-scientific, transformation and elucidating
Barriers to effective explanations including myths
The importance of audience analysis in effectively communicating complex ideas
Using analogies to explain abstract ideas.
Effective organization in oral presentations
Infographics.
Creating organizational structures.
Producing charts which enhance audience understanding.