Presentation skills

Time: 15:30-17:30, 9th June

Location: Medical Building Seminar Room 1

Presentation Skills: Focusing on Delivery

SICSA PhD Conference 2014 brings you presentation skills with a difference – using tools from the opera world to give you the confidence to communicate clearly and effectively with your audience….we promise no Opera skills required and fun guaranteed!

Why should I attend this session?

We tend to make up our minds about someone in the first 5 seconds of the initial encounter, and when we believe something, it’s often the person saying it we believe.

Skilled communicators change what they say and how they say it depending on who they are saying it to. They also know that, even if they have good things to say, it is the quality, pace and tone of their voice that provokes strong reactions and makes them engaging and believable.

In a research environment, technical speak is the norm, and is strongly linked to peer standing and identity. Outside of this peer group, particularly in a business environment, technical experts often want to ‘stay true to themselves’ and revert to type, delivering technical speak in a default personal style, thereby running the risk that the value of their research prowess may become ‘lost in translation’.

In this and many situations, people who revert to type often believe that anything else would be insincere or about being superficial..

The truth is that they can retain integrity AND perform well, be themselves in a more full, engaging and interesting way. It is about finding the full potential of their own voice…. like a glove that fits….. The tools and techniques from opera can make this happen.

What will I learn?

- The power and pitfalls of the voice – how our voice at times can be everything we want it to be but also how it can send rogue messages that we don’t mean to send…

- The importance of the ‘acts’ in any presentation, pitch or any message

o Opening act: needs to be captivating, hook the audience in

o Middle acts must elucidate and not lose them

o Closing act: needs to be memorable

- How to power up the voice and make it reliable, expressive, flexible

- The importance of our voice as a tool - at the service of our message, and being naturally at our best when we need to be….

Do not miss this opportunity, register now!