SPE-50/ Making Presentations : Preparing the Mémoire / Préparer le Mémoire

Making Presentations: Preparing the Mémoire

3-Day Intensive Course for Students, Researchers & Early-Career Professionals
3 Intense Days
7 Hours per Day (Split into two 3.5-hour sessions)

Learning Path Visual

Your journey from messy notes to a confident, professional mémoire presentation:

Day 1: Structuring & Storyboarding Your Presentation
Learn how to turn your mémoire into a coherent, persuasive oral presentation. Build a clear structure, define your narrative, and adapt your content for your audience — whether academic or professional.

Day 2: Designing for Clarity & Impact
Master the principles of slide design, visual storytelling, and branding. Learn how to present data clearly, avoid common mistakes, and make your visuals support — not compete with — your message.

Day 3: Delivering with Confidence & Defending with Authority
Develop stage presence, tone, and verbal precision. Practice strategies for Q&A, handling objections, and defending your ideas with poise and professionalism.

Course Overview

A mémoire isn’t just about writing — it’s about presenting your thinking clearly, confidently, and persuasively. This 3-day course equips you with the structure, design, and delivery skills you need to turn your research or final-year project into a powerful live presentation.

You’ll get feedback, templates, and practice opportunities to help you build your final mémoire pitch from start to finish — and be ready to defend it in front of any jury or evaluator.

You’ll learn how to:

• Extract key insights and structure them into a narrative

• Design clean, clear, and engaging slides

• Use visuals to enhance clarity, not distract

• Build confidence in voice, body language, and pacing

• Handle tough questions and anticipate objections

• Defend your choices clearly and academically

What’s Inside Each Day

Day 1 — Structuring & Storyboarding Your Presentation

• Key differences between written mémoire and oral presentation

• Audience analysis: jury, academic vs. business style

• Building a presentation skeleton: intro, content, conclusion

• The 3-minute message and elevator pitch

• Common mémoire traps: too much detail, poor transitions, lack of goal

• Workshop: Turn your mémoire into a 10-slide storyboard
  Tool: Storyboard template + outline builder

Focus: Message Crafting • Structure • Adaptation

Day 2 — Designing for Clarity & Impact

• Visual hierarchy, spacing, contrast, and typography

• Choosing and presenting data: charts, graphs, and infographics

• Design do’s and don’ts for slides

• Templates for cover, content, and summary slides

• Animation, transitions, and branding — when and how to use them

• Workshop: Redesign 3 slides from your storyboard
  Tool: Slide critique checklist + design feedback template

Focus: Slide Design • Visual Storytelling • Clarity

Day 3 — Delivering with Confidence & Defending with Authority

• Voice, pacing, rhythm: how to sound confident and clear

• Body language and eye contact

• Handling Q&A: clarifying, rephrasing, answering honestly

• Responding to criticism without becoming defensive

• Simulating the full mémoire defense session

• Workshop: Final pitch practice with live peer/jury feedback
  Tool: Presenter checklist + defense rehearsal planner

Focus: Delivery • Presence • Defense Strategy

Course Goals

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Structure your mémoire presentation with purpose and flow

• Design slides that support your message without overwhelming it

• Speak confidently under pressure in front of juries or evaluators

• Answer difficult questions with academic and professional poise

• Defend your work with logic, clarity, and confidence

• Walk into your final presentation fully prepared

Who Should Take This Course?

• Students preparing for mémoire, thesis, or final project defense

• Early-career researchers pitching research to panels or institutions

• Business school students delivering capstone presentations

• Professionals presenting findings, audits, or strategic reports

• Anyone who wants to turn technical writing into effective communication

Class Reference: MPD/ENG
Form Updated on: 06/17/2025 (Version 1)
Last Modified on: 06/17/2025

📎 Program Note

Participants will receive editable slide templates, storyboard worksheets, and a guided practice script for solo or group rehearsal.

Brief pédagogique en français

SPE-50/ Making Presentations : Preparing the Mémoire / Préparer le Mémoire est présenté ici en version synthétique française afin que les équipes pédagogiques puissent évaluer rapidement l'intérêt du module.

Le module s'inscrit dans la famille Communication. Il peut être adapté au calendrier de l'école, au niveau Tous niveaux, au volume horaire 3 jours et aux modalités d'évaluation prévues.

Objectif d'intervention

Ce module vise à relier les notions business à des livrables professionnels clairs et évaluables.

Livrables et activités possibles

• présentations, briefs, analyses ou recommandations structurées
• vocabulaire métier et communication avec parties prenantes
• mise en situation autour d'une décision, d'un projet ou d'un cas d'entreprise

Adaptation école

LC peut ajuster le déroulé, la langue d'enseignement, les supports, les exercices et les critères d'évaluation selon la promotion, le diplôme, le niveau d'autonomie attendu et les contraintes de planning.

Pour une version détaillée du syllabus en français, LC confirme le programme final après cadrage du niveau, des heures, du calendrier et des livrables attendus.