About Pre conference course A - Beyond safety – key professional skills throughout a career in biosafety / biosecurity

Additional to technical knowledge, a successful career in biosafety or biosecurity requires a number of transferable professional skills. This course will give participants grounding and insight into key skills used by professionals in many areas, and examine how those impact upon a career in biosafety / biosecurity both generally and specifically. 

 Main topics:

• Professional skills in a career in biosafety / biosecurity
• Effective communication skills
• Influencing and negotiating
• Delivering effective presentations

Learning objectives:

• Examine the role of professional skills in a career in biosafety / biosecurity
• Underline and examine the importance of various methods of communication – within and outside a team, spoken, and written
• Give attendees an understanding of influencing and negotiation skills, and how these may be implemented practically
• Give attendees a strong grounding in presentation skills – the what, the how, and the why of presenting to an audience. 

Target audience:
This course will be useful for attendees at all career stages, but particularly impactful for those towards the beginning of their career. 

CWA 16335 references:

• 7.2.20: Training
• 7.2.21: Communication skills and information / knowledge systems.