Slidewriting: Optimize your own academic presentation

TitleTimeRoomTeacher
Slidewriting: Optimize your own academic presentation 26.03.2025 09:00 - 15:00 (Wed)onlineDr. Markus Burger
Keywords: 
Slidewriting, Storylining, Presentation
Course Description: 

The goal of this workshop is to develop a convincing 10-slide-presentation of your own research findings, e.g. for a conference, a colloquium or the disputation of your doctoral thesis. 

Course aims: 
  • Structuring complex information logically
  • Designing easy-to-understand slides and stories
  • Applying all techniques to own examples
Teaching methods: 

After a quick theoretical introduction, the training consists of practical exercises with real slides and storylines from the participants' everyday academic work. 

This course fits doctoral candidates in the following phase: 

At the beginning of the doctorate | during the doctorate | at the end of the doctorate

Participation requirements: 

None.

Technical requirements: 

Laptop/tablet with stable internet connection, microphone, webcam, Zoom (in most cases).

Course preparation: 

Optionally, you send an already existing presentation to the trainer at markus.burger(at)slidewriting.com. He will prepare written, confidential feedback.

Additional information: 

This training focuses on the logical thinking behind convincing slides and stories, not on the use of software like PowerPoint or OpenOffice. The methods taught in this training can be used for governmental or commercial work.

What participants say about this course: 
  • The course was very clear. Every slide, every explanation was on point. In addition, we could work in groups and alone on different task and deepen the knowledge.
  • The course was well structured and used an excellent combination of theory and practice. Further, I liked how the instructor interacted with the participants via Whiteboards and PowerPoint presentations. Overall a great course!
  • Really well structured, information was displayed in an easy accessible way, the online exercises worked very well, immediate feedback from the trainer etc. etc. It was a very very good course!
Category: 
Fachübergreifende Veranstaltung
Event type: 
Seminar/Workshop
Organizer: 
Graduate School Geschäftsstelle
Responsibility for event: 
Hauptverantwortung
Format: 
Digital/Online
Course Language: 
EN
Course Capacity (Max): 
16
Course capacity (Min): 
1
Duration in hours: 
5
Financial contribution: 
20 Euro
Trainer: 
Dr. Markus Burger

Dr. Markus Burger holds a B.A. and M.Sc. in quantitative social sciences from Oxford University. He got a PhD in Management from the Free University of Berlin, where he was also a Post-Doc. He worked as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Today, he teaches slidewriting and storylining at international companies and research institutes.