As young professionals with technical background you may often tend to focus on communicating numbers and statistics in your presentations. However, facts are only one aspect of convincing others. Often, your personality, personal experience, cultural background and emotions are more important. You have to convince as a person in order to get your content across.
In this workshop you will learn how to increase and express your cultural competence. You will apply cultural knowledge and images in order to positively influence communicative situations. You will learn how to add character and interest to your talks, papers and publications by referring to your own and European Cultural background. You will find out the basics of communicating professionally and convincingly by showing personality and by referring to your own cultural knowledge. You will get hands-on experience both in preparing and in conducting such communicative situations. This course is not focussing on delivering new knowledge about European culture but helps you using existing knowledge or such that you can gain e.g. in other Humanities courses.
Content
- How to enrich the personal character of your presentations by referring to European and your own culture.
- How to properly arrange content and structure.
- How to use PowerPoint for visualization (you will use computers in an NIT room).
- How to be well-prepared and convincing when delivering your thoughts to your audience.

Literaturhinweise werden zu Beginn des Seminars bekanntgegeben.
Literature will be announced at the beginning of the seminar.