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DESCRIPTION: Our series of monthly Professional Development Workshops are open to anyone interested in gaining practical skills and expert insights.

Each month we explore a key aspect of running your own business or interpersonal skills, and the events also provide the opportunity to network in the usual welcoming and personalied Schmooze atmosphere.

There will be opportunities for questions and discussion following the presentation and all refreshments are included. 

There is a limit of 20 participants at these events, so reserve your place early.















Creative attention: convey your ideas effectively and inspire your audience
Of greatest value to an audience is a presentation that not only helps them to understand new ideas, but also gives them new ideas of their own. For presenters who need to impress, providing intellectual inspiration of this kind to your audience does so better than anything else.
This workshop will explain why presentation clarity enhances both your audience's understanding and their creativity, and simple methods for achieving this clarity will be described.
These methods can be applied to any content and are focused on spoken presentations that include visual aids (e.g. powerpoint).
The topics will include:

    Eliminating competition between the written and spoken word for your audience's attention.
    Using visual aids only when they actually help, and not when they hinder.
    Reducing complexity by 'focusing' presented sequences.
    Making the best use of metaphor and reducing reliance on literal explanation and jargon.
    How to identify non-essential content that can be removed to increase your presentation's impact.
    Speaking 'live' rather than rote learning or reading pre-written material.

This workshop is ideal for anyone who presents professionally, or needs to make a persuasive case in a pitch situation, or perhaps simply wants to be confident that the points they wish to make are compelling and memorable in their presentations.
Our Presenter

 
Dr Joshua Young is a Canberra-based innovator working in the area of human-computer interfaces for music. He was awarded a PhD in neuroscience in 2009 for research conducted at the University of Sydney and the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, Germany.
His experience as a presenter comes from communicating his research at international conferences and science award seminars, competitive grant pitches, public awareness campaign talks, and sitting through so many bad presentations he has vowed to save others from the same fate.
 
 
 
 

RSVP and Payment

    You must RSVP with Schmooze before the event to reserve your place as there is a maximum of 20 participants for each workshop
    If you are a Social member or non-member you must pre-pay before the event, please request a tax invoice when you RSVP.
    RSVP to rsvp@schmooze.net.au by Monday 2 August
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LOCATION:National Press Club, National Circuit Barton
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SUMMARY:Professional Development Workshop: Creative Attention- Convey your ideas effectively and inspire your audience
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