Contents
Impressive and provocative rhetoric - pointed as a rhetoric code
- Voice/speaker profile: convincing impression through correct expression.
- Clean up your language style - communicate clear messages. Concise messages without bankruptcy phrases and softeners.
- Build trust and inspire with charisma and cordiality, the surprising tips from sociopsychology.
- Personality performance through ritualized and interpretative body language and confident tells.
The "Trojan horse" of communication ... (surprise guaranteed)
Persuasive dialectics - simply easier to be right
- The charm and magic of the "miracle weapon of age-centering": the right positioning in a conversation.
- The Bermuda triangle of role allocation, argumentation models and consistent discussion management.
- Resolve conflicts with effective solutions or simply bury them (3-T rule).
- Bredemeier feedback as a result of modern research principles.
- Dealing confidently with tough and difficult contacts who would have been better off holding back ... - politeness and (!) consistency.
- Convincing through professional countering: "interest rhetoric" and the dialectic of super thinkers.
- Use language and let thoughts arise.
- Cognitive dissonances - the preventive minefields of interactive communication.
Situational repartee - always the right words at the ready ...
- Yes: Anyone can be quick-witted - use existing skills.
- Quick-witted with the addressee trick.
- The art of dosed provocation.
Ritualized and interpretative body language - the magical mirror of thought sovereignty
- No more stage theatrics - interactive gestures for successful dialog.
- Professional argumentation with positive signaling.
- The gestural rule of three of modern performance.
- Overt and covert effects in the communication process - pure influence.
- Excursus: The importance of body language in virtual space, remotely or online.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
In this training
- you will develop your personal tools and techniques as well as methods of confident conversation and a convincing appearance with excellence.
- you will train methods of offensive communication and techniques for target- and partner-oriented speaking - on virtual and direct communication channels.
- you master critical situations with difficult contacts with flying colors and know where you have lacked consistent firmness because you were simply polite.
- you will skillfully apply the rules of dialectics and be confident and quick-witted even in tough discussions - your personal upgrade and authenticity check.
Methods
Theory input, video training, individual trainer feedback/coaching, practice-oriented work on difficult situations.
Theory input, video training, individual trainer feedback/coaching, practice-oriented work on difficult situations.
The seminar concept of the live online seminar is optimized and adapted for online implementation. We use a tried-and-tested virtual seminar environment that is adapted to specific learning needs and supports interactivity between the trainer and participants.
Recommended for
Board members, entrepreneurs, managing directors, managers, middle and senior managers, management consultants, sales managers.
Further recommendations for "Provocative Rhetoric"
Attendees comments
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Seminar evaluation for "Provocative rhetoric"







Learn how to train yourself to give quick-witted answers
Do you sometimes lack the right words in various situations? Do you often only think of suitable, quick-witted arguments afterwards? Are you overwhelmed when someone argues provocatively and cheekily against you? There are many reasons why you should train your repartee skills in our "Provocative rhetoric" training .
You can learn to be quick-witted!
In this practical rhetoric training course, Prof. Dr. Karsten Bredemeier - coach to numerous top managers in the media industry and advisor to both large and medium-sized companies in matters of personnel and organizational development and communication issues - will show you how to systematically acquire quick-witted answers in terms of provocative rhetoric. Our communication training and numerous rhetoric tips will support you positively in the following areas:
- You always remain confident, even in unpleasant discussions.
- They are able to effectively slow down opposing speakers.
- They learn not to allow themselves to be pushed into a corner and to defend themselves.
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Start dates and details

Thursday, 07.08.2025
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 08.08.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 23.09.2025
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, 24.09.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 08.12.2025
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, 09.12.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Monday, 26.01.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, 27.01.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 26.03.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 27.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 22.06.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, 23.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Thursday, 23.07.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 24.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 17.09.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 18.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.