We are happy to announce the first workshop on “Professional appearance and authentic self-presentation“.
Date: Friday, 14 March 2014, 9:00-17:00 o’clock
Place: Tagungszentrum an der Sternwarte, Geismar Landstr. 11
Duration: 1 day
Content:
Your personal appearance is crucial for your success in presentations and conversations, in your daily professional life or in job hunting processes. Thus, it contributes to your career development in a critical way. Besides the quality of the content, the key factors are the following: Am I able to create a positive atmosphere for me and my audience? Can I deal confidently with stress situations? How do I react to unforeseen situations?
This hands-on seminar will address those and related topics and support you in using your strengths and expand your self-awareness and your communication skills.
Topics:
- Reflect one’s own strengths and use them effectively
- Raise awareness of how you see yourself and how you are seen by others
- Optimizing breathing, voice, language and body language
- Lively contact in face-to-face communication and towards larger audiences
- Flexible handling of difficult situations during presentations, interviews and conversations
- Mastering stress and stage fright
Methods:
- Breathing, vocal and body exercises
- Detailed feedback to personal appearance in presentations and behavior in conversations
- Exercises for the improvement of personal appearance and presence
- Communication model based on Marshall Rosenberg
- Role playing
- Brief theoretical inputs
Information about the trainer, Sabine Mariß, are available here.
If you would like to take part in the workshop, register here and write an e-mail to the coordinator Katrin Wodzicki (ggnb-career@gwdg.de). The e-mail should include a short motivational statement (Why do you want to take part in the workshop?).