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Fall NEPMA Meeting to Include Presentation Skills Workshop

The meeting, scheduled to be held Oct. 2, in Argonne, Ill, is open to NEPMA principals as well as their product and marketing staff.

In addition to a behind-the-scenes look at the Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory, the fall National Engine Parts Manufacturers Association (NEPMA) meeting will include a "Presentation Skills for Professionals" workshop presented by industry veteran and presentation expert David Caracci.

According to Caracci, although product and marketing professionals are usually well-educated in the attributes of the products they represent, effectively communicating the benefits of those products to customers may be a significant challenge.
 
"Understanding what you want to say and actually doing it can be two very different things. Skilled presenters are not usually born, they're made," Caracci says.
 
"The 'Presentation Skills for Professionals' workshop, presented at no charge to meeting attendees, will be the exact same training session that I do for companies and will conduct at the University of the Aftermarket Leadership class at Northwood in September," Caracci added. "This will be the first educational program for NEPMA product/marketing managers we have held, and it comes as a result of a discussion with NEPMA principals at the spring Charleston meeting. We encourage NEPMA members to send their product/marketing staff to this event as a test of NEPMA value-added [offerings]."
 
Argonne National Laboratory, located just outside of Chicago, is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest national laboratories for scientific and engineering research. More than 1,250 scientists and engineers aim to solve the nation's most important challenges in energy, the environment and national security. The Lab's mission is to apply a unique mix of world-class science, engineering and user facilities to deliver innovative research and technologies. Argonne's programmatic activities cover all aspects of the innovation ecology: basic research, technology development and prototype development and testing, and staff members regularly work with industry through exclusive licensing, joint research and a variety of other mechanisms to transfer their inventions to the marketplace.
 
For more information on membership in NEPMA or to get information about the Fall Meeting at Argonne National Laboratory, call 419-656-2766 or email caracci@nextel.blackberry.net.