Oral Presentation Skills Workshop

PrerequisitesSpecial

This course is designed for those who would like to build their confidence and competence by learning the key ingredients of preparing and delivering effective oral presentations, with opportunities to practise what has been preached. During this interactive session, participants will learn about the theories behind effective preparation and presentation.

Participants will then prepare and deliver a short presentation. There will be an opportunity to reflect on strengths and “what could be improved” and also to receive immediate feedback from the audience.

The speeches will be recorded, and excerpts replayed toward the end of the workshop.

All Schools PhD Students Yrs 2, 3+ & Postdocs/Research Staff

Note for Postdocs/Research Staff:

• Any member of research staff who can demonstrate that their primary responsibility is to conduct research and that they are employed for this purpose.
• It does not matter whether the University or some other body is formally their employer, e.g. a University Partner Institute or a College.

• You will be required to email the tutor with answers to three questions before the session. Further details will be provided in the booking confirmation
• You will also be required to prepare a presentation to be delivered in the morning of the workshop

*Places are limited on this popular workshop therefore if your booking is successful and you gain a confirmed place you will be expected to attend the whole day. If you fail to attend or do not stay for the whole day you may be charged for your place on this course.

Number of sessions: 1

• The best ways to connect with your audience
• Moving into the audience's space
• Establishing and maintaining your credibility
• How much of your personal life should you reveal?
• Body language and other speech devices
• Mike's Magic Maxim #1 (of 8): It's all about audience care

• To explain how to deliver dynamic large and small group lectures and other presentations that leave the audience crying out, "More! More!"
• To assist you in developing techniques to entertain and inspire, as you inform and persuade your audience
• To kindle or perhaps reignite the spark in your teaching and other public speaking skills
• To build on (or alter) approaches you currently use as a speaker
• To provide you with the opportunity to try out new ideas

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

Oral Presentation Skills Workshop aka “The Unfair Advantage” (over others who haven’t had such training)

How to craft an engaging speech in less than 10 minutes.

Content: Blending theory with practice and using the Instant Speech Preparation Worksheet to produce engaging presentations. Outcomes: Increased competence; increased confidence…or at least the ability to turn any lingering fear factor into productive energy to deliver an effective speech. Format: A one-day workshop, with written feedback to speakers from the audience. But wait, there’s more! Workshop participants will also use PechaKucha to avoid death by PowerPoint/Prezi.

The presenter: Assistant Professor Mike Grenby, who completed his graduate studies at Columbia University, has been teaching oral presentation skills at Australia’s Bond University for the past 17 years. The winner of a national Australian Learning and Teaching Citation, he presents this workshop at institutions ranging from the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics and the International School in Geneva, to Beijing’s Tsinghua University, The Royal University of Bhutan and Zimbabwe's Hwange Main Camp Bush School. His approach has also been written up in Harvard University’s “Harvard Management Communication Letter”.

Co-presenter: Leokadia Allan held managerial positions in distribution and transportation in her native Poland before emigrating to America where she became a paralegal to help perfect her English. She then graduated with a degree in criminal justice, followed by her MBA – all with honours or high honours. She has delivered this oral presentation/teaching skills workshop with Mike in China, Turkey and Zimbabwe.

One full day session