MCH2022

Public speaking for technical people. You can do it too!
2022-07-22, 20:40–23:40, DNA 🧬

As a technical person, you work with complicated and often important matters. Public speaking is essential to get your message across, be heard, and be valued. In this workshop, you will improve your public speaking skills. The workshop is based on the methods of Toastmasters International.

Training


Rerun of https://program.sha2017.org/events/91.html, which was well received and people asked for it to be done again.

This is a session with a fixed starting time, it is not a walk-in workshop. Please be in time, though you can leave early, should you so desire.

As a technical person, you work with complicated and often important matters. To explain these, get your message across, raise your value and get a better job, it is essential that you can communicate your message to a wider audience. If you cannot effectively explain your solution or your issues to other people you will end up frustrated and unrecognized. Even for educating and training your peers, public speaking skills are very important.

In this workshop, you will improve your public speaking skills. We will practice and evaluate and practice some more.

Your workshop leader is a professional trainer and an advanced member of Toastmasters International. Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization for the purpose of helping members improve their communication skills. More than 300.000 members are organized in around 15.000 member clubs globally.

Peter van Eijk is one of the world's most experienced independent cloud trainers. Before that, he worked as an IT strategy and risk consultant at a big four firm and did lots of other different interesting jobs. Other than that he is a small-time hacker.
In his capacity as an associate professor at Hogeschool Utrecht he is one of the founders of the jointcyberrange.nl.