Skills Series
In this session, we will start by working on techniques to increase your confidence in front of your audience. We will also work on knowing when you might be using a little too much jargon and ways to avoid that. This session will be recorded.
It's a universal experience: Every single one of us has sat through a presentation with slides that distracted from the speaker. Perhaps you even had a good nap because the speaker read every word on every slide.
Data analysis involves a large amount of preparing, cleaning, and “munging” data to facilitate downstream data analysis. This session will cover data cleaning and “tidy data,” and will introduce participants to R packages that enable data manipulation, analysis, and visualization using split-apply-combine strategies.
Success of design-led companies such as Apple, Coca-Cola, IBM, Nike, among others have led to application of Design thinking approaches in strategy and innovation, and workforce management across different sectors.
The UVA Library’s Research Data Services Team and Research Computing are partnering with UVA’s PhD Plus program to offer – Introduction to Programming in Python, with Mac
Do you struggle with writing about your research for broader audiences? Do you want to write more clearly and succinctly so that everyone can understand your work? If so, consider applying to participate in the inaugural PhD Plus “Research Communication: Writing to Expand your Audience” workshop series.
Part I: Consulting 101
What is management consulting and how are many of the skills developed as a PhD student relevant to jobs within this industry? This session will provide an overview of the management consulting industry and different functional focuses within the industry (e.g.
In this session, we will identify the classic PPT pitfalls that limit our audiences' ability to receive our message. We will show you design options to make your slide complement you as the speaker rather than compete with you for the audience's attention. This session will be recorded.
PhD+ Career Design skills training series in Fall 2020 will be offered every Thursday of October at 3.30 pm – 5 pm (5 weeks equal to 7.5 hours in-class time. Excludes preparation time).