Event
SKILLSETS - Talking it up without dumbing it down: How to communicate with non-experts
Monday, November 23, 2009 12:00to13:00
Thomson House-Ballroom, Thomson House-Ballroom, CA
You鈥檝e spent years delving deeply into your field. But now it鈥檚 your first year on the job, and you have to give a talk to alumni and donors鈥� or speak to a reporter鈥� or convince the CEO of your company why what you do is important鈥� or are staring into the eyes of a first-year class. You launch into your talk and you鈥檙e met with blank looks. Gulp. How do you translate that hard-won knowledge into language that a non-expert can understand?
Come to this interactive session and learn some tricks and techniques to help you speak simply about complicated research.
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