Course detail

Presentation Skills

FAST-XZ057Acad. year: 2024/2025

The course provides practical mastery of presentation skills. Students will learn the theory of complex preparation of the presentation at the lectures and at the seminars they will present specialized topic from field of civil engineering. Students are provided with group and individual feedback based on which students can enhance the effectiveness of their presentations for professionals and the general public. We will demonstrate how to structure the content of our speech with regard to important factors that affect the perception of the speaker - the curve of your audience's attention and nonverbal forms communication.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

RNDr. Ing. Jaroslav Lindr, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Entry knowledge

No special knowledge is needed, except those gained on a High school (about human communication).
Knowledge of basics from general and social psychology is invited.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Aims

Orientation in subject, ability to aplicate of knowledge, information and practises in professional and personal life.
Knowledge of ethic principles and their connections with management. Understanding of human change in firm culture, manager´s personality and firm strategy.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

HUGHES, John a Andrew MALLETT. Successful Presentations Student. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-476835-1. (EN)
ŠIMURKA, David a kol. Mluvte jako mluvčí. David Šimurka. 2014. ISBN 978-80-260-5766-6. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

RNDr. Ing. Jaroslav Lindr, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the topic. Selection of a theme for spoken presentation. 2. Assessment criteria for the presentations. Stage fright and relaxation techniques. 3. Emotional intelligence. Empathy and its role in interpersonal communication. 4. The role of self-knowledge and self-monitoring in communication. Criticism and praise in communication. 5. Basics of the nonverbal communication. Principles of appropriate verbal and nonverbal expression. Beginning with the presentation. 6. Analysis of the most common mistakes in speech in terms of nonverbal communication . 7. Verbal communication, public speech. Rhetorics. Physiology of the speech act. Work and exercise with speech organs. 8. Types of presentations (informative, persuasing and improvised) and their specifics. Work with the audience. Presentation of the results on the professional and lay level. 9. Software support of presentations. Presentation tools and their appropriate use. 10. Ethics and etiquette in terms of presentation situations. 11. Specifics of presentations of civil engineering disciplines. 12. Specifics of team presentations. The role of the individual in the working group. 13. Presentation of printed materials. Written communication.