As young professionals with technical background youmay often tend to focus on communicating numbers and statistics in yourpresentations. However, facts are only one aspect of convincing others. Often, yourpersonality, personal experience, cultural background and emotions are more important.You have to convince as a person in order to get your content across.

In thisworkshop you will learn how to increase and express your cultural competence.You will apply cultural knowledge and images in order to positively influence communicativesituations. You will learn how to add character and interest to your talks,papers and publications by referring to your own and European Culturalbackground. You will find out the basics of communicating professionally and convincinglyby showing personality and by referring to your own cultural knowledge. Youwill get hands-on experience both in preparing and in conducting such communicativesituations. This course is not focussing on delivering new knowledge aboutEuropean culture but helps you using existing knowledge or such that you can gaine.g. in other Humanities courses.

Content

• How to enrich the personalcharacter of your presentations byreferring to European and your own culture.
• How to properly arrangecontent and structure.
• How to use PowerPoint for visualization (you willuse computers in an NIT room).
• How to bewell-prepared and convincing when delivering your thoughts to youraudience.