Effective Communication

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Effective Communication

• Greg Downey
• Department of Anthropology
• Faculty of Arts
• greg.downey_at_mq.edu.au

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Communications

• Communicating with supervisors.
• Presenting your research.
• Transition to teaching or professional
  presentations.

• The punchline comes first communication is based
  on skills that need to be worked on to improve,
  do not come naturally.
• Intellectuals are professional thinkers and
  communicators.

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Communication with supervisor advisors

• Supervisor is scarce resource.
• Help your advisors to help you.
• You are becoming a professional intellectual --
  behave like one.

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Communicating your research

• Tendency to present against a sense of inadequacy
  -- avoid!
• Understand your audience objectives (e.g., job
  talk).
• Have a cocktail party version of research
  concepts.
• When interviewing, think out loud.
• Dont over-prepare (time limit, pages, calendar).
• REHEARSE!

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Transition to professional presenter

• Find your own style -- role models, actively
  improve.
• Know what you are trying to teach.
• Fit your method to your objective.
• Lecture presents small number of ideas (two or
  three at most).Tell them this point in the
  clearest language possible.
• Teach to the smartest.
• Use your own passion for the subject.

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Do well to become confident.

• Reversal of cause and effect

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