 At the Engineering Management Institute, we help engineering professionals become better managers and leaders. And in this 80-20 Engineering Manager Shorts video, I want to answer a question that was posed to me recently by a younger engineer. She asked, what if I'm speaking in public in front of an audience that's more knowledgeable on the subject than I am? How do I build confidence in that situation? And that is a tough situation because often as a younger technical professional, you may have to give a presentation to people that know more about the topic than you. And so that could be really difficult to do because you'll feel inadequate standing up there on the platform. You supposedly the expert, them with more experience. And so what I would do is turn that around and actually use the situation to your advantage and start the talk with something like, I know that many of you here are much more knowledgeable on this topic than me, but I have the opportunity to speak today. I don't want to share my perspective on it, but what I'm hoping is that this will be a very collaborative effort. I'd like to hear from all of you throughout the session with your advice, your knowledge and any tips or experiences that you might share with myself or others. By doing that right at the beginning, you pull them into the presentation and instead of them thinking to themselves, well, I know more than this person about the topic, they're going to be thinking, how can I contribute to this session? So oftentimes when you get into a challenging situation in your career, you really just have to turn it around. We talk about this a lot through our podcasts and through our videos. You take a problem and you turn it into an opportunity. And so if you're speaking to a group that's more knowledgeable, leverage their knowledge and do it in a way that's humbling, and it may just make your whole presentation much more collaborative and much more of an enjoyable and informative experience for everyone involved. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel for weekly engineering manager advice just like this and we will continue to help you engineer your own success.