Communication workshop
Effective Communication and Presentation technique Workshop
This is a two-day course that teaches you effective techniques for good communication. You get a unique and systematic training program, which combines knowledge from journalism, voice research, movement theory, dramaturgy, and top sports. The goal is for you to be at your best in front of an audience and in media.
Dates: 2- 3 May 2022
Place: Bergen, SpeakLab in Vestre Torggate 22
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Course instructors:
Siri Lill Mannes is Managing Director and Founder at SpeakLab. She has 20 years of experience in televison news. Siri Lill covered international top stories as a reporter, and then anchored the evening news at Norway TV2 for more than a decade. In recent years, she has moderated more than a hundred conferences on a range of topics, from energy and security to rocket science, politics and finance.
Arne Møller is Chief Development Officer and Founder at SpeakLab. Arne is a physiotherapist with a specialisation in voice training. He is also a former professional footballer and has the highest coaching qualification from the Norwegian Olympic sports organisation, Olympiatoppen.
Is this for me?
Everyone is talking. But how do you get people to listen? And what is a good communicator?
This course is based on 10 years of presentation training, from students and entrepreneurs to engineers, media people and top managers. A good presentation can give you the job or the contract of your dreams, or money to put your plans into action. SpeakLabs goal is for you to be at your best in front of an audience.
This course is for you who want to be safer and better when you speak, whether you are leading meetings, teaching, public defence or giving presentations at your job. To ensure you a lot of practice and personal guidance, we have a maximum of 6 participants per instructor. We are filming along the way and give you constructive feedback.
You don't need any prior knowledge to attend the course.
This is a perfect course for PhD students, who should approch media to communicate their important findings. Also to be able to present and dicuss in a media debate from your scientific view.
If you soon are going to hold you public defence of your PhD thesis, this is the perfect course for you !!
You will learn:
- How to give presentations and lead meetings on physical and digital surfaces.
- How to engage the audience.
- How to show authority through your voice and body language.
- How to structure your message and build effective presentations.
- How to become aware of your strengths and areas of development.
- How to use a microphone and perform in front of the camera.
- How to master your nerves in stressful situations. Speaking in public is what many people fear the most.
The course is for free for NRSGH members.
For those who will travel to Bergen, there are booked rooms at Scandic Byparken. Please fill in the registration form, if you need accommodation during the workshop. Travel and accommondation in Bergen will be covered by NRSGH.
The workshop is fully booked.
There will also be a social dinner at Almuen Bistro on Monday night at 19:00.
Do not hesitate to contact NRSGH coordinator Elin Yli Dvergsdal, if you have any questions about this workshop.
NRSGH Coordinator: Elin Yli Dvergsdal
Course organizer: Turid Austin Wæhler