Ready for Work: Presenting, Working in Teams, Showing Your Profile

5 sessions · free of charge

✅ Checklist: the key points of this course

Five sessions, one resolution per lesson, to check off. This is the ideal approach; you will find the reasons and evidence in each session.

Session 1 · Project Work and Teamwork

☐ On the first day, we clarify: What has to be submitted, what result do we want, who does what by when, when do we meet?
☐ I admit a gap myself early on and explicitly welcome questions.
☐ I keep disagreements focused on the issue and do not get personal.
☐ We build the framework together, agree on the interfaces, and at the end one person reads everything in one go.
☐ If things are not working, I ask without blame, renew the agreement in writing, and involve the instructors before the deadline.

Session 2 · Preparing a Presentation

☐ I first decide on the one sentence that the audience should still be able to say a week later.
☐ I put the most important points at the beginning and at the end.
☐ I build the presentation from one key message, stated twice in the same words, and three sections, each with one claim and one piece of evidence.
☐ I rehearse out loud, without a script, with a clock, and spread over several days.
☐ I time myself, plan a reserve, and write down the five to eight foreseeable questions in advance.

Session 3 · Giving a Presentation

☐ When I hear rules about stage presence, I ask what they are based on before I organize my preparation around them.
☐ I interpret the nervous first minute as the part that will pass anyway.
☐ I speak more slowly than feels natural, pause after each section, and know the first sentence by heart.
☐ I decide in advance which section I will drop in an emergency. I never speed up.
☐ After the presentation, I write three descriptive lines and decide the next day on one change I can carry over.

Session 4 · Slides and Posters

☐ I do not read my slides aloud. What I say does not also appear on them as text.
☐ I speak instead of writing, label directly on the figure, highlight what matters, and leave out entertaining material that makes no point.
☐ Every slide has a statement as its heading and exactly one idea.
☐ Every chart has a message, an axis starting at zero, absolute numbers, and spread and sample size.
☐ On a poster, the title states the result. I prepare the thirty seconds I speak next to it.

Session 5 · Future Skills and Your Own Profile

☐ With the four Cs and similar acronyms, I ask where they come from.
☐ From the lists, I choose the skill that matters for my field and decide how I will recognize progress.
☐ I practice critical thinking deliberately and do not wait for it to develop on the side.
☐ I practice the four Cs in my own field: finding evidence, explaining without notes, taking on the synthesis, connecting distant notes.
☐ I demonstrate my profile instead of claiming it: claim, evidence, limitation.

Skills for university and work: working in teams, preparing and giving presentations, designing slides and posters, and showing what you can do with evidence.

Start the course with an accountand your progress is saved Start the course without an accountprogress kept only in this browser, for a limited time