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During this course you will learn to use the fifteen signals necessary for effective communication in such a way that you maximize attention at the start of your presentation. By changing style during transitions, you will become able to keep attention alive. Story tools will help you to design your presentation in a captivating manner. To support your story best, you will learn to make effective slides and learn to guide the attention to the slides and back to you. Last but not least you will learn how to respond to questions effectively. The result is that you will be the main act on the stage and your content the main character. 

You will learn:

• to use the fifteen signals necessary for effective communication on stage. 
• to get attention at the start of your presentations and to keep the audience attentive by using style and transitions. 
• to activate your audience by making them curious from the start, right to the end of your talk.
• to design a presentation using story tools and supportive slides that allow you to be the main act on the stage, the content the main character in your story.
• how to respond to questions effectively. 
• to reach your audience by making the signals you send in normal communication effective at a distance.
• to involve them with the content, using the same techniques that make us care about Romeo and Juliet.
• how to address different audiences.

The main method in the course is that you will find the tools yourself and test them so you are convinced of their effectiveness. To that aim various methods will be applied, such as theatrical exercises, individual presenting exercises, group discussion, peer review, story design exercises and interactive lecturing. 

Study load

In addition to the scheduled sessions, you should take into account an extra study load of approximately 18 hours in total. This study load generally consists of homework assignments in preparation for the next session.

Group size

16 participants

Number of credits

1.3 EC

Trainer

You will be trained by one of the professionals of .

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 (€ 315). 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.