Presentation Skills
Soft Skills Training Workshop at AEI Potsdam; Feb 16 – 17, 2009
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Feb 16, 2009 09:40 AM
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Feb 17, 2009 12:00 PM |
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| Where | AEI Potsdam, seminar room central building |
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This workshop helps students to improve their personal presentation skills. This session is a combination of a lecture followed by a practical part with exercises, which turn the acquired knowledge into personal experience.
Topics (among others):
- how to structure a presentation so that the audience can it follow easily
- designing slides
- making the best possible use of visual aids and technical equipment
- dealing with interruptions
- handling questions
- keeping an eye on the time and the best way of finishing in a hurry
- common mistakes
- what to do when nervous
- how to give proper feedback
- non-native speakers of English are given tips on spoken language and a number of phrases they can use e.g. for transition
Exercises deal with
- posture
- breathing
- voice
- body language
The most important part, though, are the individual presentations given by the students and video taped by the lecturer. The students are given individual feedback and get the chance to watch themselves on tape. The presentations are then repeated on the following day and again recorded. Experience shows that the vast majority of students improves significantly from the first to the second round, and has fewer problems with nervousness.
