Scholarship Development: Presentation Skills Taster Session

Session Outline

If you type “Presentation Skills” into a search engine, you will find links to something in the region of 80 million pages. Begin to explore these pages, and you will discover a wealth of extremely good advice on the topics that can help make presentations better. These will probably include areas such as appropriate pace of speech, good eye contact, effective gestures and open body language. Undoubtedly this is all good advice, but most websites (and many workshops) are very good at telling you what to do but not how to actually do it.

By exploring and exposing what we do intellectually, emotionally and physically when we communicate effectively in more familiar and less threatening situations, this session explores first how presentations might be created so as to provide a narrative that is easy to follow, logical, and designed to take the audience from the present to a future vision. Then it

brings to life five fundamental principles of live communication, illustrating in a practical way how we naturally and consistently fulfil them, suggests methods of transferring them and leaves attendees with memorable and tangible concepts with which to approach presentations in the future; be it in the next day, month or year.

As a taster session designed to fit within a lunch hour, this event is necessarily short, but has the opportunity to act as an introduction to a longer, more in-depth and interactive workshop at a later date. Depending on a number of variables, it could offer the opportunity for some experiential development and individual feedback with the content open to your influence.

Resources

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQ9nULqaXI
• Padlet: bit.ly/uhipresent (password: present)
• A session programme will follow.

Presenter

Piero Viteli

Before 1995 Piero Vitelli worked in retail, as a West Indies based yachtsman, a butcher, a professional sound engineer and an actor with two years of technical theatre training and a further three years in the Stanislavski method. Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 1995, he finally found a purpose and has since focussed on helping people create more effective relationships in the workplace. He holds the belief that this can best be achieved through a better understanding of the values, motivations, behaviours and preferences that underpin and influence our choices.

Combining his background and training in the arts with earned accreditations in MBTI, Belbin, SDI, C-Me, NLP, and TA, he now coaches individuals and conceives, designs and delivers training workshops in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, Canada and Brazil, North Africa and the Far East.

He lives on a smallholding near the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire with his wife, son and daughter where he divides his time between his family, being a smallholder, writing (he published his first book in 2015 and is working on his second) and his training and facilitation work through Island 41.

To Book

Please email lta@uhi.ac.uk to book your space. Numbers are limited to 30 for this session so please get in touch as soon as possible to avoid missing out. 

Accessibility

We want to make this a positive experience for all participants and hope we have met everyone's needs in joining this session.  If you have particular access needs please contact us at ta@uhi.ac.uk so we can work together to get you as good an experience as we can. 

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