Communication and Presentation Skills in the Professional Environment

By participating in this short hybrid credit-bearing course, participants will learn and practise successful communication and presentation through various interactive concepts. Understanding communication skills through verbal and visual content will facilitate the mastery of participants in creating suitable presentations.

Content and Methodology

The course "Communication and Presentation Skills in Professional Environment" is created to develop the today’s extremely important soft skills that are used not just in professional environments, but also in everyday life. The lectures will demonstrate the latest scientific results connected with the phenomena of communication and presentation (performance) in the interdisciplinary frame where the aspects of philosophy, sociology and psychology will meet the innovative approaches to the subject from the field of art. In order to train the participants, the activities are divided into three categories:

1. Lectures
2. Interactive discussion with participants
3. Practical exercises in the application of previously presented skills

The participants will learn and practice successful ommunication and presentation through various interactive concepts. Understanding communication skills through verbal and visual content will facilitate the mastery of the participants in creating suitable presentations (Ppt or Prezi). Upon completion of the course, participants should have enhanced their personal ability to communicate and present with professional rhetoric and have a working knowledge of their individual communication preferences and styles. An additional focus of the training is to familiarise participants with the knowledge of nonverbal communication that humans use in everyday life. The consciousness of how our body works while we are communicating (the theory of gestures) helps to understand others and helps to create clear ideas to our audiences. This is especially important since we are presenting our messages in more and more culturally diverse and complex environments. A special lecture will be devoted to the so-called “accessible communications” that include knowledge about the importance of creating the “communicational environment” suitable for persons with special needs, too.

The online part will take place on the 5th and 12th of October from 10:00 to 14:00 CET, and the onsite part will take place on the 19th and 20th of October from 10:00 to 14:00.

Competences

• Knowledge into action
• Intercultural skills
• Communication & collaboration
• Emotional awareness & resilience
• Digital skills
• Critical thinking
• Ethics & responsibility

Requirements

• Selection strategy: Everyone who feels they lack communication and presentation skills should apply. There are no prerequisites. Participants should write a motivation letter (max. 200 words) in which they describe why they would like to attend the course.
• Number of participants: 18.
• Certificate/ECTS: 2 ECTS.
• Language: English.

Please note that the participants will get a scholarship for travel and subsistence. The participants will be contacted by the EUGLOH team at their home university to get more information.

This activity is part of WP2