The Rightful Role of Management in Technical Communications

How long conference audiences will tolerate poor oral communication will probably depend on how much management is willing to participate. Today, technical competence alone is not enough in a conference presentation. This paper describes the inception of a PGEWS program that provides for a direct approach to this problem in which management plays a major role. It is a program that enlists the cooperation of various departments, provides suggestions for in-plant training sessions, offers pointers for initiating dry-runs of papers, and describes aids for the pre-evaluation of speakers and how to prepare potential authors for paper presentations.