Presentation Skills

GLOMAR Soft Skills Course on

Presentation Skills
Sabine Hatzl M.A., Training, Coaching, Business Mediation.

June 24 – 25, 2010, Bremen

Objectives
Public speaking is a necessity in scientific life. Publish or perish – and some of your
publications are talks in front of a more or less professional and more or less benevolent
audience.
“Poets are born – speakers are made” with this quote Roman Rhetoricians used to motivate
their students centuries ago. Yes, you can learn what the success factors of a good scientific
presentation are. Very rarely is it the quality of the research results that cause problems.
More often structure, orientation and personal performance can and should be improved to
ensure that you come across as creative and credible scientist.
Find out what your strengths are and develop your individual presentation profile. Take steps
to learn how to lead the audience from your first appearance on stage until the last question
in the discussion. Be authentic, enthusiastic and convincing!

Topics
The Preparation
…what to collect and how to arrange
• The target group and their expectations
• Message, structure and the red line
Being aware what’s happening out there
…”reading” and leading the audience
• Sharpen the sensory perception
• Voice, body and more
Powerful Presentation Language
…supporting your message
• Helpful sentences for intro, main part and end
• Chunking and other “friends”
Platform Skills
…for clear visualisation and high creativity
• Powerpoint, flipchart et. al.
• Mindmaps and brainstorming
The ”Show” must go on
…state control or how to deal with difficulties
• Nervousness and stage fright
• Using the inner resources
Question and Answer Session
…what to say if …
• Clarifying questions
• Paraphrasing

Methods
The training is conducted over 2 full days. It consists of short theory lessons and special
exercises to focus for example on body language, the rest of the time is spent presenting
presenting presenting. Each participant gives a (prepared) talk which is video-taped and
analyzed and structured feedback is given by the peer group and the trainer.

Course schedule
Tuesday 9:30 – 12:45 and 13.45 – 17:45
Wednesday 9:00 – 12:30 and 13:30 – 17:30

Location
MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany
Leobener Strasse, 28359 Bremen, room 2060

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