One of the main obstacles to start a collaboration is to attract the attention and curiosity of a potential collaborator. This training session will help you figure out how to pitch your value proposition/collaboration idea effectively to a non-academic organisation by explaining how to develop an elevator pitch and a speculative email.
Key content of the session:
Ways to present a value proposition
How to choose between an email and an elevator pitch
How to write a speculative email
How to prepare an elevator pitch
Objectives:
Gaining confidence in approaching a potential collaborator
Learning how to write a speculative email
Learning how to prepare an elevator pitch
Format
The live Zoom webinar will include a Q&A session at the end.
PRE-REQUISITE
You need to either have attended the training session on “crafting an effective value proposition” last Friday (05/06) and/or have created a value proposition about yourself/a research or collaboration project before the start of the session.
We strongly advise that attendees download Zoom before the start of the session, instructions of how to do this and to join a meeting can be found here