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Our skills library is full of useful information. You can search for keywords in the boxes below, and even filter what kind of medium you like while learning. Are you interested in one topic in particular? Visit our guided learnings about teamwork, presenting and writing. You can always check out the upcoming workshops to see if the skill you want to improve is available this quarter.

Exercises for your voice

Look at these videos on using your voice and try the exercises that are given.

Feedback form Presentation skills

If you want to know what your fellow students think of your presentation skills? Ask them to fill in this feedback form to help you improve.

Guided Learning: Preparing Presentation Content

Proper preparation is necessary to be able to give a good presentation. In this guide you can read some tips on how to prepare a good presentation. For example, how to structure your presentation and preparing based on your target audience.

Guided Learning: Appreance and delivery of presentations

At some point, you will be standing in front of an audience doing a presentation. In order for them to really understand you and remember your story, your non-verbal communication has to match that story. Here are some tips on how to do just that.

Guided Learning: Elevator Pitch

An elevator pitch has become an essential form of communication, which allows you to present any subject to an audience in a very short amount of time. This guide will give you instructions and directions on how to most effectively create an elevator pitch.

Guided Learning: Handling questions

Often at the end of the presentation but even during the presentation itself, there is room for questions. How can you deal with them and answer them correctly? This guide teaches you more on this topic.

Guided Learning: Presentation Nerves

Everybody recognizes them, the nerves that you get before you have to present. However, not everybody knows how to deal with them or even how to make use of them. If you work through this topic guide, you will become more aware and learn how to reduce your nerves so that it doesn't affect your presentation skills.

Guided Learning: Props for presentations

This Guided Learning offers you skills for making props for your presentation, such as PowerPoint slides or a poster.

Guided Learning: Speaking

Do you have difficulties communicating your ideas to others because of how you speak? Are you wondering how to improve your own speech and maybe learn some English along the way? Start with this topic guide and see how you can improve.

Guided Learning: Target audience

This guide is meant for people who want to further improve their ability to target their audience and how to make them actively participate during their presentation.