Course type:   Workshop

Target Group: Doctoral researchers and postdoctoral researchers

Apply seven principles of effective communication to create explicit and implied social contracts to avoid and overcome negative and sabotaging behavior in academic meetings. Discover the seven distinct roles in effective meetings and learn how to manage them and/or distribute them to share the load.

Pre-requisite: having attended the “Key Communication Principles” seminar (May 21, 2019)

Counting towards the Certificate “Leadership, Management, Transfer of Knowledge”: Modules IV (4 AE)

Philosopher and linguist; more than 15 years of experience as coach and consultant for critical thinking, effective writing and communication as well as strategies in academic and entrepreneurial settings. Teaching award for his lectures at the University of British Columbia from 1999 to 2003. Work areas: Academic writing, presentations and communication in academic fields.