Rhetoric for managers
Speak confidently - convince with confidence
Contents
Improving rhetorical skills - determining where you stand
- Assessment of personal impact and appearance based on rhetorical impact factors.
- Professionalize your own speaking style.
Strengthening the power of argumentation
- Success factors of winning rhetoric.
- Using rhetorical structures to make arguments tailored to the target audience.
- Convincing through logical and emotional argumentation in leadership situations.
- Using the treasure chest of argumentation to argue more accurately.
Improve vocal and body language expression and impact potential
- The breathing column as the foundation of successful speaking.
- The success factors of an effective and sustainable voice.
- The articulatory and phonetic tools for more impact and expressiveness.
- Speak with more accentuation and emotional impact.
Act effectively and appropriately with constructive repartee
- Selected strategies for dealing confidently with critical situations, attacks and confrontations.
- Using the principle of bridging strategies for skillful and appropriate rhetoric.
Reduce speech inhibitions, optimize speaking confidence
- Using speech inhibitions and performance nerves as a success factor.
- Strategies for acting confidently in stressful situations.
- Keeping a cool head under stress and conveying self-confidence.
The power of language and rhetorical style
- Get to the heart of the audience with four rhetorical areas of speech and target group-specific rhetoric.
- Use linguistic expression and style in rhetoric in a more targeted way.
- Recognize selected stylistic devices and use them as amplifiers.
Practical case work for typical rhetorical situations
- Practicing typical professional speaking situations in plenary and group work.
- Testing of solutions for your own fields of application.
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
The training provides you with an effective rhetorical toolkit for effective and lively leadership appearances and speaking situations.
- You define your need for change, reflect on your speaking behavior and try out new possibilities for your individual eloquence in order to appear convincing and credible.
- Using practical exercises, you will develop your rhetorical skills and improve your personal impact (you will always receive feedback twice for the selected speech exercise).
- You can improve your argumentation skills, the effectiveness of your powers of persuasion and your rhetorical skills in various speech and/or conversation situations.
- This training offers you space to explore and test new scope for action.
Methods
Trainer input, self-reflection, small group work, practical exercises, plenary work, discussions, exchange of experiences, role simulations, feedback.
Recommended for
The training is aimed at managers at all levels who want to significantly improve their powers of persuasion, their personal effectiveness and their rhetorical repertoire.
Further recommendations for "Rhetoric for managers"
Questions about the seminar content
As a manager, you influence others primarily through your language, attitude, and presence. Rhetorical skills help you convey content clearly, provide guidance, and build trust. This training you how to strengthen your leadership impact with clear messages, structured arguments, and an authentic demeanor, and how to remain confident even in challenging situations.
The training situations in which managers often feel uncertain, such as when giving clear instructions, providing critical feedback, or dealing with resistance. You will learn to formulate complex content in an understandable way and to remain capable of acting even in emotional or controversial conversations. This will strengthen your clarity and persuasiveness.
You will learn how to clearly express difficult content without straining relationships or trust. The training you how structure, word choice, and inner attitude work together and how you can combine clarity and appreciation. This will enable you to communicate even critical messages calmly, respectfully, and convincingly.
The training rhetorical techniques with self-reflection. You will explore how your voice, body language, posture, and choice of words interact and how they influence your impact. Feedback will help you recognize how you come across to others and where you can make specific improvements. You will develop an authentic communication style that suits your personality and at the same time strengthens your leadership role. This will enable you to come across as clear, present, and confident without having to pretend to be someone you are not.
You will learn tried-and-tested conversation and argumentation structures, techniques for formulating clear messages, and methods for steering conversations. You can use these tools immediately in employee appraisals, project meetings, and leadership situations, and adapt them to your individual context.
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Start dates and details
Monday, 26.01.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 27.01.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 05.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 06.02.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 25.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 26.02.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday, 26.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 27.03.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 06.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 07.05.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 08.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 09.06.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 09.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 10.07.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 20.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 21.08.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Tuesday, 15.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 16.09.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 02.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 03.11.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 03.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 04.12.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 18.01.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 19.01.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 02.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 03.02.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Tuesday, 02.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 03.03.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 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.
