Workshops on Presentation
Start Strong and Finish with Flair (55+ min)
If you would like people to remember you and your research, start your talk with something unexpected. This will increase the odds of keeping your audience’s attention. Similarly, when you offer a surprise ending, you have just made sure they will remember you, and what you said. In this workshop, you learn more than 10 ideas for how you can start and end your presentation with power.
Best Practices for Awesome Slides (75+ min)
If you are in academia, you have probably heard “One minute, one slide.” Guess what? That is flawed advice. Why? Because you could speak with one slide for 20 minutes, or use 40 slides in 5 minutes. It all depends on what you need to communicate to whom. The fact is that there is not one best way to design and present slides. However, there are some best practices, despite differences in disciplinary conventions. In this workshop we will learn to recognize slide design pitfalls that limit an audience’s ability to receive your message and discuss ways to avoid them.
Evaluating Your Presentation After (55+ min)
Most scientists give a research presentation and then never think about it again other than to add it to their C.V. Why is that? After all the energy in preparing, we should care about whether the audience took away what they needed, or at least what you wanted them to. By critically reflecting on your presentation, you can ensure that you will be more effective the next time. In this session, we will discuss criteria and techniques for assessing the likelihood that your audience received your message as you intended.
