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Philips sells light, not lamps. SKF sells rotation, not ball bearings. Rolls-Royce sells power per hour, not aircraft engines. It is becoming increasingly common, and there are good reasons, for…
Authorities are not just regulations and decisions. They are people who meet people. And in every meeting – in-person or online – the image of public service is shaped. When…
As part of the ENLIGHT academic leadership programme, top leaders from ten European universities met in Uppsala today. The theme of the day was leadership in a multicultural world. It…
Ordrum through Erik Mattsson had the privilege of holding a course in rhetoric during the master’s program “Applied Communication” at…
The autumn job season is underway, and we look forward to communication training courses with SKF Group, Uppsala University, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, the Swedish Bar Association, Chalmers University of Technology,…
Signpost means explaining your intention before you speak. This makes it clear to your audience what they should listen for – and it also makes what you say more…
The Speaker’s Deck is a creative teaching aid for practicing presentations. The game is a playful exercise in spontaneity, presence, and audience contact. The digital card game determines what topic…
Talkback means repeating exactly what the sender has said to confirm that the message has been received. This is an excellent way to end a meeting: go around the room…
How can advanced digitalization revolutionize the development of cutting-edge expertise and collaboration between experts? In a conversation with industry representatives and politicians, we discuss how Extended Reality (XR), a collective…
In one of the last assignments of the semester, Ordrum’s Erik Mattsson visited Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education: I have stood in many phone booths over the…
Mirror means mentioning what you think you see, without judging, to show that you want to try to understand. This is a simple way to start a conversation. In safe…
With MeetingPlanner, you can easily create a meeting agenda or schedule. A new, updated version of the meeting planner is now available. This version can be used on all platforms!…
During today’s course for PhD students in popular science presentations at Chalmers University of Technology, the coffee cups were given a starring role.
Imagine if, in a few years, Alzheimer’s disease could be identified with a simple blood test and then treated effectively. There is hope. Hooray for science and REAL AD –…
Some assignments are particularly meaningful and fun. Right now Erik Mattsson is teaching a masterclass in presentation skills for the H&M Foundation, a foundation that supports industry in halving its…
Storytelling is a powerful technique. We’re sometimes told that stories work best in soft contexts, but nothing could be further from the truth. Storytelling is a particularly good technique when…
For two days we had the pleasure of working with this year’s round of the Global Graduates Programme at SKF Group: eleven MSc graduates who have had the opportunity to…
One of our favourite tools with a wide range of uses is now available in digital form. Take a look at our online shop!…
Currently, we are running our digi-physical course in Presentation Skills. Today, at the midpoint of the 28-day program, we held a digital Q&A session where participants received answers and feedback…
With the help of our SpeechWriter, you can easily put together a manuscript for your next talk. By combining simple speech modules, you can easily build almost any speech. The…
A common reason why meetings go wrong is that we have different perceptions of what is expected of us as participants. If some people have prepared thoroughly while others believe…
Do you know how you are perceived? For most of us, this is one of the most important questions. And as a rule, we have no idea. We hope that…
Positive forces are needed in a world that in many ways is heading in a negative direction. That’s why I am deeply grateful to hold a workshop for the Novo…
It is not easy to know how one is perceived. Here are some common types we encountered during our digital meetings. What is your favorite? And who are you? …
You have to talk about the ‘elephant in the room’ – the big thing that everyone knows but doesn’t want to talk about. But if you do that, the colossal…
To want to learn, you need motivation. And being alone in front of a computer is not always the best motivator. That’s why we’ve built our hybrid presentation skills course…
The research community has always been global. Meetings across national and cultural borders are commonplace. Without those meetings there just wouldn’t be any research. But even when it comes to…
Thank you to everyone who attended our book release live from Gothenburg and digitally from around the world. And thank you to everyone that made the book possible. The Meeting…
Time to develop your management team’s communication skills? The success of an organisation depends on a well-functioning management team. During the spring, we have worked with several management teams who…
Did you know that the World Health Organisation has an office in Uppsala? Uppsala Monitoring Centre, in its capacity as the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug…
A new updated version of our app that helps you design your meeting is now available. This version can be used on all platforms! Register your free account at…
A common reason why meetings go wrong is that we have different perceptions of what is expected of us as participants. If some people have prepared themselves to the hilt,…
The morning included personalised speaker training with a keynote speaker in Shanghai. The same challenge as always: understanding the audience and clarifying the main message. However, this is easier said…
What if the communicator is an expert? And what if the expert you’re talking about doesn’t want to let you This was the theme of today’s workshop in an unusually…
The webinar “Getting your message across” was conducted by Erik Mattsson before an audience of researchers, post-docs, PhD students and other university staff. Among the takeaways from the webinar was…
The third and fourth three-day programmes in presentation technology for SKF are coming to an end. “These are my favourite courses”, says Erik Mattsson, “we start with the presentations that…
INSiDR is an industrial doctoral project, a collaboration between the University of Borås, Jönköping University, the University of Skövde and several industrial partners including Ellos, Eton and Gina Tricot. On…