MODULE 1: Setting Up and Delivering a Workshop – Confessions of a trainer!
16 March 2022; h. 9:00 am – 01:00 pm CEST

 In this workshop, we will consider

  • Mode of delivery: face-to-face vs virtual platform
  • The learning curve: your early workshops will be a challenge
  • Participants and their expectations
  • Scheduling
  • Participant comfort
  • Communication before the workshop
  • Workshop series: lightening the administrative workload
  • Materials and resources
  • Starting and introductions
  • Venue and arrangement of equipment and furniture if face-to-face
  • IT issues if delivered virtually
  • Participation and exercises
  • Slides for workshops and other visual aids
  • Starting the workshop
  • Matters arising and feedback after the workshop
  • Contingency planning and troubleshooting
  • Dealing with feedback
  • Workshop Design Toolkit


MODULE 2: Oral Presentations – Skills to help you survive or even shine
21 April 2022, h. 9:00 am – 01:00 pm CEST

In this workshop, we will consider

  • What you need to know before preparing slides.
  • Managing equipment and the environment.
  • Rehearsing and keeping to time.
  • Increasing the impact of an oral presentation.
  • Presentation nerves.
  • Voice and body language.
  • Questions and difficult people.
  • Individual participant presentations.

Practical elements of the workshop will include:

  • Critique of a well-known orator: how they use voice and body language to maximise interest and impact
  • Participants will have the opportunity to deliver a short presentation (3 minutes) with up to 6 slides prepared before the workshop. Participants and lecturer will give constructive feedback.


MODULE 3 : Great Topic – Shame About the Slides! Creating clear and professional-looking slide decks to communicate biomedical science
08 June 2022, h. 09:00 am – 01:00 pm CEST

Rogues’ gallery: slides you would not be proud of
Purpose of a slide deck: diversity of presentations
Challenges when preparing slides
Presenting live vs. viewing at leisure
Have a good structure – flow and bridges
Slides for oral presentations: 10 tips

In this workshop, we will consider

  • Slide rules: time per slide, avoiding text and clutter
  • Distraction: appropriate delivery of text, images and speech
  • Lists: often necessary, but make them as pleasant to view as possible
  • Fonts, bullets, spacing, alignment, and how to prevent ‘jumping’
  • Useful tools: ‘Slide Master’, ‘Format Painter’, alignment tools, guides, paragraph and line spacing
  • Backgrounds, colours, contrasts, margins, resolution
  • Text and images on the same slide
  • Examples of complex slides
  • Principles of designing self-guided learning slides, with examples
  • Proofing: achieving a professional finish

Exercises/discussion

  • Discussion: diversity of presentations
  • Discussion: challenges when designing slides
  • Which style of emphasis do you prefer?
  • Which method of combining text and an image on a slide do you prefer?
  • Experience/discussion about using some useful PowerPoint tools
  • Exercise: critique a sloppy slide
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