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Titre

Engage, Inform, Inspire: Bringing Your Presentation Skills to the Next Level (420)

Dates

30 November and 7 December 2020

Lang EN Workshop language is English
Organisateur(s)/trice(s)
Intervenant-e-s

Dr Samuel Lagier

Description

This 2-day intensive workshop will help participants to improve their presentation skills for application beyond the group-meeting setting. While certainly valuable to future academics, this workshop is especially valuable to individuals who plan to break out of the typical academic path (future entrepreneurs, future business leaders, science communicators), where excellent communication skills can make - or break - a career.

The workshop will begin with each participant giving a brief 5-minute conference-style presentation of their work. This will be the example talk that each student will use to apply his or her new skills throughout the course. We will identify each participant's points of difficulty, and together, we will push past them, through interactive group- and individual-exercises where the participant will receive ample feedback both from the instructor and from other participants.

The first day will focus on presentation design: different styles of story-arcs, structure, depth, and visualisations, specifically with a focus on presenting and discussing scientific data. During the intervening week between the two days of the workshop, participants will continue to develop their model talk based on what they've learned the first day.

The second day of the workshop will focus on the performance and practice of the talk. How to hook and keep the audience? How to be engaging in both voice and body language? Participants will learn to use specific verbal devices to communicate clearly in a memorable way. The workshop will close with each participant presenting his or her talk in its new form.

 

Learning outcomes:

The doctoral candidate will have developed his or her public speaking and scientific storytelling skills by preparing one excellent model talk on his/her research. In the process, he/she will also have garnered skills for creating and delivering impressive future presentations, namely:

  • innovative ways to explain complex data
  • different ways to structure presentations
  • knowledge of his/her own performance tics and how to push past them
  • how to physically, verbally, and vocally command the attention of one's audience and make a lasting positive impression.

 

Pedagogical methods

The workshop will be very interactive. Students should wear comfortable clothes that they can move in and they should bring their laptops, or a thumb-drive and a notebook and pen.

Participants' talks will be filmed and each person can take home his or her talk at the end of each day for future study.

 


Requirements

Participants should be comfortable and able to express themselves in English (level B2/C1), and they should also be moderately experienced in giving presentations (lab meetings, departmental meetings, etc.).

 

Intended Audience

This workshop is beneficial to all doctoral candidates who have a story to tell.

Lieu

ONLINE !

Information

Date: Mondays 30th November and 7th December 2020

Schedule: 9 am to 5.30 pm

Location: Online

 

Trainer:

Dr Samuel Lagier is a multi-talented scientist, with experience as a curator, coach and host of the TEDxLausanne conference since 2012. He teaches improvisation and applied improvisation to individuals and corporate clients, and appears on stage with the improvised comedy group, The Renegade Saints (www.renegadesaints.eu). He is also part of the Catalyst theatre company and had the lead role in its latest creation (bluebutterflyplay.ch), which brought together science and theatre.

In his scientific career, Dr Lagier studied sensory perception in the normal and in the schizophrenic brain, in France, the United States and in Switzerland. He combined microscopy, behavior and electrophysiology to characterize a genetic model of schizophrenia developed in mice.

Frais

Participants are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train between the city of their university and the location of the workshop (half-fare card, 2nd class).

Places

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