April 10-11, 2025. Hosted by SINTEF.
Unlock Your Professional Potential: A Hands-On Workshop for Young Researchers
Are you ready to master your time more effectively, build your brand and present your ideas with confidence? This 1.5-day interactive workshop is designed to provide you with practical tools and strategies to enhance your energy and time management, personal branding, and presentation skills. Learn how to prioritize what truly matters, stand out in your field, and communicate with impact.
Event begins with a welcome lunch starting at 12:00 on Thursday April 10th and ends at 16:30 on Friday April 11th. Location is the NTNU Gløshaugen Campus in Trondheim starting at: Kolbjørn Hejes vei 1 E, 7034 Trondheim.
Register here to secure your spot!
This training has a maximum of 35 participants.
This international event brings the added value of networking among multidisciplinary Young Researchers, from the 8 YEAR members (AIT, CEA, RISE, SINTEF, TNO, Tyndall, VITO and VTT).
KEY LEARNING SKILLS
- Time and energy Mastery
- Researchers often have a varied workday: meetings, literature reviews, writing, and hopefully maintaining positive mental health habits! Learn how to better balance and budget your valuable time and energy.
- Personal Branding and Networking
- How to build and maintain connections targeted to specific goals: connection to industry, project development, solving specific research problems, mentorship, etc.
- Engage, Inspire, Persuade: The Science of Presentation
- Different kinds of meetings require different approaches: team meetings, conferences, presenting a paper, or talking with a potential industry partner. Learn tools to help you tailor your approach to different audiences for a lasting impact.
Why Choose This Workshop?
This isn’t just theory—this is transformative. Through highly interactive activities, practical tools, and peer collaboration, you’ll not only learn but also be inspired to apply these methods to your daily work. By engaging with your fellow participants, you’ll “Harvest the Gold” from shared experiences and ideas, making the learning process richer, more relevant and fun.
Establishing Good and Lasting Habits
In order to make the most of the training session you will be invited to set a concrete goal in your own “Development log”. What specifically will you take with you and turn into action? You will pair up with an accountability partner and share your goal with each other. We also encourage you to check in with your partner after three weeks for a status on how things are going.
Agenda (preliminary)
Thursday, April 10th
- 12:00 – 13:00: Welcome lunch and preliminary networking
- 13:00 – 13:15: Introduction of YEAR & Trainer
- 13:15 – 15:00: Personal Branding and Networking
- 15:15 – 17:00: Personal Branding and Networking
- Group dinner with participants (info sent with confirmation)
Friday, April 11th
- 08:30 – 09:00: Coffee and connections: Testing your new skills
- 09:00 – 09:15: Good morning welcome from SINTEF
- 09:15 – 10:30: Time and Energy Mastery
- 10:45 – 12:00: Time and Energy Mastery
- 12:00 – 13:00: Lunch
- 13:00 – 14:30: Engage, Inspire, Persuade: The Science of Presentation
- 14:45 – 16:15: Engage, Inspire, Persuade: The Science of Presentation
- 16:15 – 16:30: Recap and final words
ABOUT THE TRAINER
Catherine Lemaréchal is an advisor and coach specializing in communication, branding, and time mastery. She has worked as a consultant since 1992 and has run her own company Ticato AS since 2006. Catherine is passionate about helping people achieve more than they believe they can. Catherine is dedicated to making learning enjoyable and practical, ensuring participants leave with tangible tools they can apply immediately.
Catherine previously worked at reputed communication agencies such as Geelmuyden Kiese and Burson-Marsteller. She has a background in marketing, has participated in, and been assistant trainer of Dale Carnegie’s course in Communication and Leadership. Catherine is an NLP Certified Coach and is certified in FranklinCovey’s program “7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” In addition, she has volunteered for many years with the pro bono foundation MOT, which promotes positive attitudes among youth.