Do you get nervous about presenting your research?
Thursday, January 30, 2025 11:30to13:00
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 16:30to17:30
This workshop teaches participants how to balance confidence and professionalism with dynamic physical and vocal presence. Specifically, participants will learn the importance of gestures and vocal variety; as well as how to use physical space, naming and props.
Thursday, February 13, 2025 12:30to14:00
This workshop breaks down how participants can talk about their research in ways that highlight the skills and personal attributes needed to establish their professional competencies.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 16:00to17:00
Get started with this intro to SKILLSETS’ Presentation Skills series. This workshop teaches participants how to create clear, accessible and engaging research presentations that are fit for a variety of academic and non-academic audiences.
Thursday, March 6, 2025 13:00to14:00
This workshop focuses on the steps participants need to develop content for their next research presentation. From STEM based quantitative research, to social science exploration, this workshop will explore worksheets designed to help participants develop better content.Â
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 10:30to11:30
In this workshop, participants learn how to avoid the pitfalls of building slides that have too much information, take too long to process, and compete for audience attention. By understanding the limits of human visual and auditory language processing, participants learn how to work within them.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 17:00to18:00
This workshop dives deeply into how to practice more effectively and how to get better feedback for a presentation while preparing. Participants review why watching a video of yourself is so painful for most people and how to work around the feeling to make the most of this tool for self-review.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 13:00to14:00
This is a one-off workshop, but we highly recommend attending our two-part workshop before attending this one.
Monday, April 14, 2025 15:00to16:00
This workshop teaches participants how to balance confidence and professionalism with dynamic physical and vocal presence. Specifically, participants will learn the importance of gestures and vocal variety; as well as how to use physical space, naming and props.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 13:00to16:00
This special 3-hour workshop focuses specifically on research presentations with more explicit goals, such as policy implications, grant requests or investment pitches.