The holiday season is nearly upon us, which means: socializing! If like me, you’re an introvert and the prospect of networking sessions and office Christmas sessions feels a tad unnerving, do not despair. You can learn how to handle these occasions. Yes, you too.
“I don’t like to speak in front of groups.”
How many people have said this to you? Perhaps you’ve muttered this to yourself as you shuffled into a conference room. Apart from the rare breed of people who could happily lecture all day long – many of them, in fact, do become lecturers – many people actively hate public speaking.
After everything else I had planned for this Spring got cancelled, I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to present at the BAAS Digital Dialogues series. Basically a virtual version of the BAAS Annual Conference, which was due to run in Liverpool in April this year, the Digital Dialogues allow academics to share their ideas in a virtual environment to benefit from each other’s feedback and generate new ideas.
Okay, I’ll be blogging about day one for US Studies Online (coming soon!) but I feel the need to add a… Read more BAAS 2017: Why It Was Ace
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