Presentation
Agile Pitch Design: Develop and Improve Your Pitch in a Rapid Cycle Participatory Panel
DescriptionDoes your job require you to pitch human factors and ergonomics work to customers, stakeholders, or decision-makers? Come practice with other HF/E practitioners, learners, and researchers in our community! Come with anything from only vague ideas to an existing polished pitch and our process will help you move forward from where you are right now. Deliver your pitch iteratively to a friendly audience and collect feedback in a supportive and nurturing environment. Being an active participant in this session will be first-come first-serve with signups at the door. Being an audience member is open to all. This participatory panel where anyone from the audience is invited to participate will follow a rapid cycle iterative process that build on principles and best practices from user-centered design, agile development, improv theater, storytelling, and science communication. Step 1: deliver the current version of your pitch to a small group under a time constraint. Step 2: listen to feedback from your group on what they liked (Yes!) that you might keep and what they wanted more of (And…) that you might add. Step 3: Repeat with a shorter timeframe. Step 4: Repeat the whole cycle until you get to a one-sentence pitch. Step 5: Start the cycle over with that sentence as the opening sentence of your pitch. When we used this process before, results have included funded ventures and 3 minute-thesis winners. This session follows a pitch clinic session at HFES ASPIRE 2024 where attendees asked for more sessions like these, with more opportunities to practice and develop their pitches.
Both participants and audience attendees will learn from colleagues how to develop and improve the way they talk about their work to inform and guide decisions and behavior, either through practice or by seeing it modeled and hearing constructive feedback. This discussion venue is also designed to create opportunities for all attendees to hear about the work of their colleagues and identify potential connections and shared interests and goals. Practitioners, researchers, and students all stand to benefit from this session which is back in an improved developmental format by popular demand.
Both participants and audience attendees will learn from colleagues how to develop and improve the way they talk about their work to inform and guide decisions and behavior, either through practice or by seeing it modeled and hearing constructive feedback. This discussion venue is also designed to create opportunities for all attendees to hear about the work of their colleagues and identify potential connections and shared interests and goals. Practitioners, researchers, and students all stand to benefit from this session which is back in an improved developmental format by popular demand.
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Panelist
Event Type
Discussion Panel
TimeTuesday, April 11:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
LocationPier 9
Simulation and Education (SE)