Marlit strives to make sure her workshops are interactive, fresh, and fun. After a brief introduction of the concept, we get right to work applying the skill to the participants’ research. Ideally, participants take something from the workshop they can use immediately.
Workshops can be conducted virtually or in-person.
How to “Know” Your Audience (55+ min)
Tips and techniques for learning about your audience so you can tailor your presentation to them.
Handling Q&A (55 min+)
Prepare to respond to different types of questions whether at an academic conference, poster session, or with friends.
Listening as a Scientist (2-3 hours)
Learn and apply several principles of listening that will improve your effectiveness as a science professional.
Simplify your Message Using “And. But, Therefore” (55+ min)
A popular message model modified and applied in the context of research.
Clarify Your Narrative with the Research Message Tool (75+ min)
Trying to tease out your message from years of research? This tool is an in-depth approach to identifying and organizing the key components of what your audience needs to know.
Crafting Analogies for Clarity (55+ min)
Practice Marlit’s step-by-step approach for creating an analogy to explain complex concepts.
Start Strong and Finish with Flair (55+ min)
Start your talk with something unexpected and you are more likely to keep your audience’s attention. Similarly, when you finish creatively, you increase the odds they will remember you, and what you said.
Design Awesome Slides (75+ min)
Recognize slide design pitfalls that limit an audience’s ability to receive your message. Introduce design options that allow slides to complement the speaker rather than compete for the audience’s attention.
Evaluating Your Presentation After (55+ min)
Criteria for assessing the likelihood that your audience received your message as you intended.
A Master Plan for Preparing an Engaging Presentation (55+ min)
Design, build, and deliver an engaging presentation with this checklist of both strategic and technical ideas. Also includes online considerations.
Slay Your Jargon (75+ min)
Learn how to know when you are using jargon, and how to fix it.
Writing in Plain Language (55+ min)
Discover the basic principles of writing clearly to relieve your reader of the effort needed to interpret jargon or process long sentences.
Bootcamps are intensive multi-day (2-5 days) experiences that allow for scaffolding of concepts enhanced by application and evaluation. We identify the skills your team needs to develop and design a bootcamp that ensures participants will have a new proficiency at the end. Perfect professional development opportunity for upper-level graduate students.
This service is customized to a specific communication such as a presentation or document. We analyze the communication in the context of the audience and provide recommendations for how to improve it.
If you are designing a science or research communication course, we can give you comprehensive perspective of your content, learning activities, and evaluation tools.
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