Make Your Message Stick – presenting in a brain-friendly manner

Make Your Message Stick - Presenting in a Brain-friendly Manner


What weighs 1.8 kilos, has more than 1,000 trillion connections and affects your presentation success more than you realize? - Your recipient’s human brain.

Yet, often we plan presentations without thinking about the impact of our design on the attendee's brain. For example, talking heads, passive listeners, audience engagement, active participation or something in between? What is the best way to deliver your message? Which juices the brain? How do you get people’s attention? Even more importantly, how do you keep that attention? And, to top it off, how do you get them to remember your message?

Today's brain science has identified several critical strategies to consider during the presentation planning and conducting process. Implementing these will create sizzle and substance for your brain-friendly presentations. When information is presented in brain-friendly ways, attendees transition to participants, increase their retention and spread contagious enthusiasm. Designing a presentation that aligns with how the brain naturally learns ensures success.

Workshop Goals

With the latest findings from neuroscience you learn how to

• set up your presentations in an inspiring and memorable manner,
• leave an impact with audiences with incomparable style,
• tell a story, paint a picture, share a vision and offer your audience an experience that is unique, inspiring and unforgettable.
  
  

Workshop Content

• Use the latest findings in brain science in designing and conducting your presentation.
• Achieve consistent success with all you design, develop and deliver.
• Implement motivating ideas to keep the audience engaged, responsive and refreshed, whatever the content!
• Use effective methods to trigger your audience’s memory for all the facts and figures you present.
• Make numbers and facts meaningful.
• Build visually engaging slides.
• Master stage presence.
• Improve your delivery so that your audience’s brains retain your message.
• Leave a long-lasting impact.
• Take charge of any room, deliver your message concisely and clearly, and get across your ideas more persuasively.

Location, Date and Time

Monday, 30 March 2015, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Tuesday, 31 March 2015, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm

All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.


Fees and Registration

This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 16 March 2015.

Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged.
Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.

To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. For any further information please contact Elke Rittersbacher (elke.rittersbacher@wu.ac.at, DW 4448).

The course fee is €40.

Trainer

Maryam Bigdeli, BA, MC, MBA Studied Communication and Psychology, Masters in Counseling and Systemic Coaching, Masters in Business Administration Co-founder and Managing Director of MEC&T Communication Training since 1998 (www.mec-t.at) 16 years of experience as Corporate Consultant, Trainer & Coach for Soft Skills, Business Communication Training & Intercultural Management