Presentation Skills: Foundations workshop May 31
May 14, 2012
A workshop, Presentation Skills: Foundations, will be held from 8:30 a.m – 3:30 p.m.
on Thursday, May 31, in 401 IARC. Lunch will be on your own.
This 6-hour workshop introduces the fundamental principles of designing and conducting
a training session. Participants will learn to identify the ideas they want to share
with their audiences, how to arrange these ideas into an effective presentation and
how to provide their participants with useful supplemental materials.
Register online. Due to the nature of this session, the workshop is available to in-class participants
only.
UA employees who currently, or in the near future, plan to conduct training sessions
or present material to university employees should attend.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define objectives of a training session
- Select the main ideas they want to present
- Outline the course structure
- Design supplemental materials
Agenda:
- Process of training
- Fundamentals of communication
- Training session objectives
- Training session main points
- Presentation outline
- Designing a slide show
- Designing manuals and handouts
There will be an opportunity for five attendees to be video-taped as they practice their presentation skills. If you are interested in being one of the five, please add a note in the comments box when registering or send an email to anne.sakumoto@alaska.edu.
Instructor will be Alica Unruh, M.Sc. After the workshop, Alica will be available for 30 days via phone or email to evaluate participants’ presentations and provide corrective suggestions.
For more information on course content, contact Anne Sakumoto at 786-1432 or Teri Cothren at 786-1139 (UACP).