Presenting a-z

If you master the art of presenting, conferences and symposia become places where you strengthen your position in academia and where you create new opportunities. This training deals with all ingredients of a good presentation: contents, structure, slides, stress, interaction with your audience, and answering questions.

During the first morning session, you learn how you adjust your presentation to you audience, goal and message. You also work on the structure of a five minutes presentation and design adequate slides. The afternoon session is about delivery. We focus on body language, interaction with your audience, use of voice, answering questions, and (if necessary) pronunciation. Special attention goes to presentation fear and how to deal with it.

After the first day you improve your slides as a home work assignment. We provide a reader with explanation of PowerPoint and design principles. At the second morning session we further zoom in on slide design. We then discuss different communication styles and how they influence the communication between you and your audience. We end the training with another round of presentations. You will receive personal feedback and tips you can immediately put into practice.

Teaching methods

During this training you apply the lessons on a five minutes presentation about your own research. This means that what you learn is directly applicable to your own work. Besides instructions and group discussions you will receive a lot of personal tips and feedback from the trainers.

Practical

Trainers: Hermen Visser & Kick Moors | Language: English or Dutch | Duration: three sessions of four hours, four hours home work | Maximum number of participants: 8 | Participation: in-company training | PhD students working at Leiden University of the LUMC can follow this training as part of the PhD Training Programme.

This training provides a broad introduction into presenting your research. If you want to train specific skills, consider our in-depth trainings. Presentation design is all about slide design and working with PowerPoint. Stage fright aims at learning to overcome public speaking anxiety. Are you more interested in presenting at a festival or science café, take a look at Pitching to a broad audience.

Tailor-made

The above mentioned setup is a proven concept. In consultation we can depart from it. For example, we gave shorter workshops about presenting on conferences and trainings aimed at specific aspects. Contact us for more information.

Wat klanten over ons zeggen

I would like to thank you for your course and all pieces of advice that you gave me about presenting skills several months ago.
Recently I participated in an international conference. It is a very important one in my field! Every year they choose a best presenter for the award. I still cannot believe it, but I won this award this year. When I was preparing this talk I was trying to implement everything that you taught us. Of course, my little experience did not allow me to make this presentation ideal and there are always things that can be improved. But I can say that after your course my presentation skills improved significantly. I would like to thank you again and to highlight that your course is one of the most useful courses about transferable skills.

Anastasia Nkulina - Universiteit Leiden

Trainers

Hermen Visser

Hermen Visser (1985) studied Biology at Leiden University. Already during his studies he developed a passion for science communication and took his first steps as a trainer. He taught students in layout skills and the graphic software Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. Since his graduation in 2011 he works as a freelance science journalist and trainer. He was radio and web editor at the editorial offices of the Dutch broadcasting agencies. VPRO and NTR. Currently he writes as a freelancer for VPRO Gids and Trouw.

Kick Moors

Kick Moors (1954) studied History and worked in a variety of organisations as manager, HR adviser, coach, and trainer. In his work he focusses on supporting researchers in their professional development. Kick is a devoted and experienced trainer and coach. He understands very quickly what are the reasons behind personal obstacles researchers encounter on their career path and how they can deal with them.