Verbal Skills For Pharmacy
Our Verbal Skills programs can help you give a talk, defuse a professional conflict or establish useful contacts. We offer books, online resources, workshops and one-on-one appointments to help you become better speakers and communicators.
How We Serve You...
Prepare and Practice an Oral Presentation
- Through workshops with communication professionals, experienced faculty and staff, you can learn how to compose clear and informative slides or posters, speak with confidence and engage your audience.
Prepare for a Challenging Professional Conversation
Ever fretted before asking a professor for a recommendation letter? Ever found it difficult to explain the expanded role of a pharmacist to a member of your clinical team? Wondering how to negotiate your workload with your manager? That’s understandable. Stress, power imbalance and lack of experience can make it challenging for trainees to ask for what they need and get what they want.
- Through appointments and workshops, we help you clear your head and develop a strategy to prepare for an important conversation rationally.
- For additional support in conflict resolution, contact the UCSF Problem Resolution Center.
Learn to Network and Find Mentors
Good mentors and a strong professional network are key to your success. They help you develop your professional skills, find jobs and make career decisions.
- Whether you’re a pharmacy student or researcher, we can help you personalize a strategy to identify and approach potential contacts and mentors, and maintain your professional network.
- Make an appointment or come to one of our workshops.
Practice Your Interview and Negotiation Skills
- For more information, please see the Pharmacy Job Search section.