Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Attention: This seminar will be held in English.
Achtung: Dieses Seminar wird in englischer Sprache gehalten.

Overview/Objectives:

• Becoming comfortable standing in front of an audience
• Optimizing verbal, paraverbal and non-verbal communication
• Making content work for you – preparing PPT slides

Contents:

1. Being comfortable with the uncomfortable

• Awareness of self – contact with floor, contact with breath
• Awareness of space – finding stance, establishing position
• Awareness of audience – intention and first contact

2. Speaking and moving with more freedom and purpose

• Speech – Finding the right pitch for you and the space / Consistency of resonance and articulation
• Paraverbal – Melody vs. Monotone; Emphasis vs. Flow; Making pauses work for you
• Non-verbal communication: Stillness vs. Movement; Gesture: Height, width, tension / Proxemics; Finding the right level of physical tension; Eye / Contact: Diffuse vs. Focussed

3. Making content work for you – preparing PPT slides

• Integrating sound and picture
• Slidewriting and graphic information
• Rhetorical skills and the art of persuasion

Methods:

• Self-awareness exercises
• Observation exercises with subjective/objective criteria measurement scales
• Group exercises, group coaching, group feedback
• Voice work, Movement training, Individual coaching

Prerequisite for participation:

• Readiness to play an active part in a practical seminar
• Interest in and acceptance of variation in seminar group
• Receptivity to both individual and group feedback
• Participants should bring a PPT presentation consisting of max. 7 slides

Work Expenditure:

2 ECTS: active participation + preparing a short PPT presentation + preparing a Key Takeaway Review

(Key Takeaway Review: Participants compare the two presentation rounds in terms of their own personal sensations (physical, vocal and cognitive) and the feedback they received on both occasions. They choose 2-3 key points which were helpful for them during the seminar and which they see as understandable, memorable and repeatable, and describe in more detail how they think these points are helpful.)