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You will learn:

• Prioritising and structuring content using the pyramid principle
• Design slides which support you in your presentation
• Improving your focus and/or reducing your nerves before and during a presentation
• Interacting with an audience using eye contact, questions, silence and body placement.
• Presenting with and without slides
• Using your hands and using storytelling in such a way that it will improve the clarity of your presentation
• Managing the activity of the audience
• Dealing with difficult questions from the audience

• Discussions on the topic of speaking in public and self-presentation;
• Presentations and exercises;
• Trainer and peer feedback on public speaking skills and style;
• Take-home assignments.

Study load

In addition to the scheduled sessions, you should take into account an extra study load of approximately 6 hours (4-8 hours) in total. This study load generally consists of homework assignments in preparation for the next session.
Before every class meeting there is about 1-2 hours of homework in which you will work on a supportive storyline and slide deck, with the help of several videos made by the instructor of the course. The amount of time you spend on the homework depends on how skilled you are in forming a storyline and making slides.

Group size

10 to 12 participants

Number of credits

0.9 EC

Trainer

You will be trained by Gerben Tuin . In 2010 Gerben finished his master’s in applied physics at the TU-Delft and then decided to become a professional actor. By combining the knowledge he gained in theatre with the world of presenting he developed the 4 Focus technique and the Active Speech framework. Currently, Gerben works as an actor, director, theatre maker, (script-)writer, storyteller, presentation trainer, communication trainer and singer-songwriter.

Course certificate

You will receive a course certificate after attending the course sessions and completing all the course requirements.

This course is free for GSLS PhD candidates. However: free of charge does not mean free of responsibility. Once you have signed up for a course, we expect you to attend. For every late cancellation or no-show we have had to disappoint others who would have liked to attend. This is our policy:

• You may cancel free of charge up to 4 weeks before the start of the course. After this date you can only cancel if you have a GSLS PhD candidate to replace you in the course. Send the name and contact information of your replacement to pcc@uu.nl, at least 2 working days before the start of the course;
• We expect that you actively attend the full course, but at least 80%. It is mandatory to attend the first session. If you are absent the first session you cannot follow the remaining of the course;
• Not meeting the above requirements means you will be charged a no-show fee (€ 120). We will send the invoice after the course has ended. We are unable to make any exceptions, unless you have a valid reason (i.e., illness or death in the family 1^st/2^nd degree or partner). Your supervisor has to send an e-mail to pcc@uu.nl indicating the reason.