Paweł Niedermaier

I’ve fallen in love with public speaking

I have had 5 public speaking appearances in 2022. Once when I worked in a corporation I liked to train and show my papers to clients. My presentations were technical, sometimes very long. Mostly about the noise, vibration - NVH engineering. I never had the opportunity to prepare a presentation in the form of a startup pitch, a product pitch, a sales pitch, a marketing pitch, for a product that is not yet there and to speak in front of a large group of people.

I had my first two presentations in May in Katowice and Gdańsk. I found out that I was supposed to make a presentation 3 days before the presentation for 90 people. I took up this challenge. I love preparing a presentation. Through the linkedin portal, I accosted Kamil Kozieł, who is an expert in public speaking. I asked him for some materials I could use to prepare myself. Kamil gave me a very nice cheat sheet, thanks to which I wrote the script and thought about the presentation plan. Only at the very end did I make slides. The first time I did slides at the very end and I was shocked at how bad I was doing it before. The best thing about all this is that I was doing a product presentation when I didn’t have a product yet. I didn’t know what and how exactly my clients were thinking.

I must have retrained the first presentation 100 times. Good thing I did. I was so stressed that when I left, it cut me. At some point I remembered that I had practiced this so many times that it was enough to start. Well, I did it on autopilot, but I don’t remember anything. I had another presentation for 50 people in Gdańsk, it was a bit better.

I had my last two presents in October. Over 100 people gathered in Wieliczka and around 80 in Warsaw. The last presentation went quite well. Because I had a more or less prepared product and I had hundreds of conversations with potential customers. I knew what and how my clients think, so I optimized my presentation in this respect. I had a short preparation for the last speech, because I practiced it only a few times. I didn’t give the presentation from memory, I just approached the topic loosely. At the last minute I decided not to wear a shirt and perform in a T-shirt. It was a good decision because my audience was also at ease and I felt at ease.

It was a very interesting experience in the form of learning how to create presentations for a speech while simultaneously researching the needs of clients and the presentation itself. The fifth time, in a smaller group, I made it almost on the go.

IT

I wrote an article about the effects of some acoustic techniques on the brain

The Focusly app is a powerful tool that can help users achieve their goals of developing and achieving a state of relaxation. The use of acoustic techniques can help to improve concentration, reduce stress and anxiety and increase creativity.

2023-09-20 No Comments

acoustics

I measured the noise level of a fridge in a bedsit

I was recently commissioned to measure the noise of a Refrigerator. A few years ago I myself had to deal with a noisy fridge in a bedsit. I couldn’t sleep and was tired in the morning.
Nowadays, I appreciate acoustic comfort and silence, so I would definitely check what the noise level of a new fridge is in my bedroom 😊.

2023-09-13 No Comments

automotive

As NVH engineer I tested at least 21 models of cars

I have had the opportunity to test the noise and vibration (nvh) of many different cars, at different stages of development. Some were early prototypes and others were series cars.

2022-02-02 No Comments