Presentation Skills

How to Present your Research Activities to Business Executives, to Public Officials, to Politicians and to other Scientists.

Overview of the Course

The aim of this workshop is to help researchers and research managers to articulate and present the ‘relevance’ of their research work to different audiences. Research groups rely on public and private funding to finance their research work. The different individuals involved in the financing of R&D are the public officials who administer the funding programmes, the technical experts who evaluate the ‘scientific excellence’ of the research, the business executives who require new technologies and the politicians who prepare economic and social policy. During the course each participant will make short presentations describing their own R&D activities. At the end of the course each participant will have ideas and skills which can be used in future presentations.

COURSE CONTENTS

1. How to Structure a Presentation:

	The different types of presentations
	The typical problems with presentations
	Standard structure for presentation

2. Presenting Research to Business Executives:

	The categories and culture of business executives
	The priorities of business executives
	How to collect information on companies

3. Presenting Research to EU Officials:

	The culture and priorities of EU officials
	How policy is formulated
	How to collect information on policy

4. Presenting Research to Politicians:

	Categories of Politicians (Regional, National, EU)
	The culture and priorities of politicians
	How to collect relevant information

5. Presenting Research to Other Researchers:

What other scientists like to hear

6. Presentations to mixed audiences

How to make a presentation to a mixed audience including business executives, politicians, public officials and scientists.