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Tue 21 May 2019 – Thu 30 May 2019

Tuesday 21 May 2019

09:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 09:30 - 10:30 OPdA at Biomedical Campus - Committee Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
10:00	Better Presentations: A Practical Guide (Sciences and Technology) Finished 10:00 - 12:30 17 Mill Lane, Seminar Room B Giving presentations is an essential skill for a researcher, be it in your deparment, at a major conference, or in your next job interview! You know your subject but sometimes issues of performance and clarity stop you being your best. Perhaps you can't project your voice, perhaps you are terrified of the Q&A, perhaps you feel your slides let you down, or perhaps you just don't know what to do to get better. This is a highly interactive workshop that requires you to throw yourself into the activities. Everyone will be involved as we apply some of the material from the online Presentation and Performance toolkit and try it out in a safe and supportive environment. The workshop is especially designed for those who feel less confident with the performance aspects of giving presentations. If you are comfortable standing up and talking in front of others then we recommend starting with the online materials.
	Making the Most of Conferences Finished 10:00 - 12:00 16 Mill Lane, Office of Post-Doctoral Affairs, Eastwood Room "It's not what you know, it's who you know." This might be an old cliché, but it's particularly true in research where (reportedly) over 90% of jobs go to a candidate already known to the employer. This half-day session will examine how you can make the most of conferences as an environment to strategically network and build research connections. Outcomes: Know how to make attendance at conferences productive Start thinking about personal goals while attending conferences Understand practically how to network during and after a conference
10:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 10:30 - 11:30 OPdA at Biomedical Campus - Committee Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
11:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 11:30 - 12:30 OPdA at Biomedical Campus - Committee Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
13:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 13:30 - 14:30 OPdA at Biomedical Campus - Committee Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
14:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 14:30 - 15:30 OPdA at Biomedical Campus - Committee Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
15:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 15:30 - 16:30 OPdA at Biomedical Campus - Committee Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style

Wednesday 22 May 2019

09:30	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 09:30 - 10:30 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
10:00	Writing Your First Year Report (Life Sciences) Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Postdoc Centre @ Biomedical Campus, Newman Library Aimed at first-year PhD students, this course is designed to get you thinking and working effectively on writing your end-of-first-year-report. How to start? What is expected? How do you make it work for you? These and many other important questions, hints and tips will be addressed in this half-day session. Outcomes: Understand the standard form and function of the first year report Start planning the structure of your report Experience the benefits of editing and receiveing feedback on writing
10:35	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 10:35 - 11:35 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
11:40	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 11:40 - 12:40 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
13:45	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 13:45 - 14:45 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
14:50	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 14:50 - 15:50 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
15:55	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 15:55 - 16:55 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations

Thursday 23 May 2019

09:30	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 09:30 - 10:30 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
10:00	Postdocs: Managing up Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Postdoc Centre@ Mill Lane, Eastwood Room The relationship you build with your supervisor/PI is important for your future career development, and you stand to gain from shaping a mutually beneficial rapport. This workshop helps postdocs develop the skill of managing up, the deliberate effort to bring understanding and cooperation to a professional relationship. You will see how to consider your PI’s perspectives and motivations, and how embedding your career goals into your PI’s goals, your team’s goals, and the institution’s goals will positively influence your own progress. Come to this workshop to understand how to actively build strong, meaningful professional relationships. Outcomes: Identify what is important to you in a professional relationship Learn real steps toward building mutually beneficial working relationships Extend your awareness of your place in building strong relationships with those who oversee you Feedback: “[This workshop] increased my awareness of the concept of and the need for managing up - this was something I had been missing. Considering that not everyone has a supervisor that initiates a discussion of how you will manage working styles and communications, it is especially necessary to fill that gap.” “It was a very useful and novel (for me) session that gave a good overview of the concept of managing up, which I was unfortunately somewhat oblivious to previously.” “It was helpful to think about how my supervisor works and the importance of communicating expectations.”
10:35	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 10:35 - 11:35 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
11:40	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 11:40 - 12:40 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
13:45	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 13:45 - 14:45 Student Services Centre, Meeting Room BG04 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
14:50	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 14:50 - 15:50 Student Services Centre, Meeting Room BG04 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
15:55	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 15:55 - 16:55 Student Services Centre, Meeting Room BG04 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations

Thursday 30 May 2019

09:30	Map your Postdoc Journey NOW! Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Postdoc Centre@ Mill Lane, Eastwood Room How can you make the most of your postdoc years at Cambridge? What does a strategic postdoc look like? What could you be doing now to be more strategic, intentional and agentive during your time at Cambridge? This workshop explores how to navigate the research landscape, how to think and act strategically, and how to develop mental and emotional discipline for coping with the demands of the competitive research environment. We will explore the career journeys of former postdocs and see that there’s no one recipe for success, but there are common ingredients. This workshop is for postdoctoral researchers who want to get to and be prepared for the next step in their careers, whether that’s within academia or beyond. Outcomes: Begin to take charge of your own career path Understand the many actions you could be taking now to achieve a career within or beyond academia Consider the important link between mental and emotional health and career advancement Feedback: “It encouraged an overall view of thinking about my career and what I want out of it and what I am good at. It also covered examples of people who stayed in academia as well as those who did not, so that I was able to consider the pros and cons of more than just one route.” “I'm right at the start of my post-doc and it helped me to think about what I wanted to get out of the next few years in terms of my career.”
	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 09:30 - 10:30 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
10:35	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 10:35 - 11:35 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
11:40	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 11:40 - 12:40 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
13:45	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 13:45 - 14:45 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
14:50	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 14:50 - 15:50 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations
15:55	Postdocs: Communication & Personal Impact (one-to-one coaching) Finished 15:55 - 16:55 Student Services Center, Atrium Consultation Room AG017 Do you get the results you want from your communication with others at work? Are you able to talk with confidence in meetings? Do you gain a high level of impact when speaking in public? This individually focused and completely confidential one-to-one coaching session will help you in identifying how to further utilise your voice and gain greater awareness of how you present yourself, so that you can develop new approaches to your communication in a wide range of professional situations. It will focus on your own specific requirements, but could include anything from practical points about elocution, ideas for how to hold the attention of a room, or new confidence in speaking up as an emerging leader in your research field. Outcomes Greater awareness of your voice and body, and how you come across to others Practical techniques to help you communicate effectively, with impact Improved confidence with public speaking and presentations