Postgraduate Student Society of Faculty of Science has successfully organized online structured course ‘DO YOU WANT TO WIN YOUR AUDIENCE?’, held on 10th February 2022, 10.00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. through Webex online platform. The one and only speaker for this program were presented by Dr. Muhammad Hariz Asraf Bin Hassan, Researcher Officer, Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, UTM. Overall, we have about 96 responses from the participants for the program “DO YOU WANT TO WIN YOUR AUDIENCE?”.
The objective of this program is focusing on postgraduate student’s life:
- To share the tips and tricks on presenting in a virtual conference, engaging pitch for poster presentation followed by presenting for a 3 Minutes Thesis (3MT) Competition.
- To learn how to persuasively communicate your ideas to make your audience care.
- To develop and practice on interacting with the audience
- To discover student’s own style of pitching
From the overall analyses in three figures below, about 87 respondents (90.6%) UTM students, 2 respondent (2.1%) UTM staff, and 7 respondents (7.3%) non-UTM have joined this program. The majority of UTM students were from the Faculty of Science (30.2%) and followed by other faculties. While most of the level of studies joined this program were PhD with 72.9% students and followed by Master students, Undergraduate students, and other.
From the graph in Figure 4, 12 questionnaires were prepared with choices of the answer which are strongly agree (SA), agree (A), disagree (D), and strongly disagree (SD). The list of question 1 -12 was shown in Table 1.
From the overall analyses in Figure 4, over 74% of respondents strongly agree about the course organization, speaker, and course effectiveness very well in this program. Lastly, Figure 5 and Table 2 show the rating and additional comments given by respondents. About 72.9% of respondents give a 5-star rating for the organized program.
In conclusion, the program was conducted successfully and enjoyably. The speaker has delivered the content informatively incorporated with the understandable examples. From participants chair, they responded positively and overall have satisfied with the program conducted. There are several weaknesses associated with the program that shall be improved such as it is suggestable to promote the program via numerous platforms – Facebook, Instagram, Whatssap and Email earlier. Besides, person-in charge may remind the participants about the event continuously to avoid the small number of participants who attend the event. Furthermore, the organizer should decide at least 2 co-hosts for Webinar platform to assist the event flow.
