Convincing with voice and body language

This will increase your personal impact.

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This training is held in German.
Most of your impact on others depends on your voice and body language. Only when your words and body language match will you be truly convincing with your message. In this practice-oriented training course, you will learn how to consciously control your non-verbal rhetorical resources and use them in a targeted manner. This will make you even more convincing in contact with your colleagues, superiors and customers .

Contents

High practical transfer through theater pedagogical exercises!

The pillars of your non-verbal communication success

  • Body language: the "secret language" of communication.
  • Voice - the acoustic calling card.
  • What is important in key professional situations.
  • Win over your listeners: from the very first impression.

Understanding and using body language

  • Deciphering the language of the body.
  • Tips and tricks for your gestures, facial expressions and posture.
  • Outer and inner attitude.
  • Feedback for your everyday business life: self-perception and perception of others.
  • Possibilities and limits of interpretation.

Inspiring through language

  • The sound makes the music.
  • Consciously control "role" and voice.
  • Speaking with different goals and nuances.
  • Skillfully directing voice and mood.

Body language as a rhetorical tool

  • In different speaking situations: finding the right posture and tone.
  • Combine verbal and non-verbal statements.
  • Act confidently in negotiations.
  • Act lively, convincing and authentic.

Acting according to type

  • When do you act how to achieve your goals?
  • Dealing professionally with territory and distance zones.
  • This is how you adapt to your counterpart.

Tips for your professional use

  • Appear authentic and convincing.
  • Understand and use non-verbal messages from your contacts .
  • Recognize who is superior or inferior to whom.
  • Contact instead of confrontation.
  • Can be used for meetings, lectures, presentations, negotiations and customer appointments.
  • Individual tips for personal development.

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 attendees

  • learn to decode the body language signals of others and expand their own repertoire in a meaningful way.
  • receive direct feedback on the effect of their body language and voice.
  • learn to specifically control and optimize their body's signals.
  • experiment with their voice and improve it effectively.
  • receive many concrete suggestions on how to improve their non-verbal communication.
  • use acting techniques to learn how to perform effectively and "play the role" they want to play.
  • can bring concrete concerns from their everyday work and work through them in the training and develop optimizations and solutions.

Methods

The training specifically uses theater pedagogical exercises to translate theoretical knowledge into practical experience.

Every public communication situation, be it a conversation or a presentation, is comparable to a "stage performance": you choose the role you want to play and will get support for the role through the appropriate clothing, i.e. a "costume".

The training depends on the attendees' willingness to get personally involved. Play scenes with concrete topics from professional practice, voice and speech training, communication exercises, movement elements, interactive games, self-reflection, feedback from the:die trainer, relaxation exercises, role-playing using the Galli Method®.

Please bring comfortable clothing to this training .

Recommended for

Specialists and managers who want to better understand the secrets of non-verbal communication and use them for their communicative success.

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Questions about the seminar content

In your day-to-day professional life, it’s often not just the content that matters, but also the impact of your presentation. This training you become more aware of your body language, voice, and inner attitude, and use them effectively. You’ll learn how gestures, facial expressions, posture, and voice work together and how this allows you to come across as clearer, more confident, and more authentic. This is especially important for specialists and managers, as they often need to be persuasive in situations that require trust, confidence, and clarity.

Your voice plays a key role in your professional impact. It determines whether you come across as calm, confident, engaged, or persuasive. During training, you’ll experiment with tone, intonation, pace, volume, and mood. You’ll learn how to consciously control your voice and adapt it to different conversational goals. This is especially helpful when you need to give presentations, moderate discussions, negotiate, or have difficult conversations.

Body language can provide important clues, but it should never be interpreted in isolation or too hastily. In training , you training to be more aware of nonverbal cues and to better assess their potential and limitations. This will help you interpret conversational situations more accurately, avoid misunderstandings, and respond more appropriately to the person you are speaking with. For professionals and managers in particular, this leads to greater confidence when interacting with a diverse range of people.

Personal impact is achieved through deliberate practice, honest feedback, and a willingness to reflect on your own behavior. This training helps you expand your individual repertoire of voice, body language, and expression. You’ll work on specific challenges from your daily professional life and receive practical suggestions for your continued development. The result isn’t just general communication training, but a direct connection to the situations in which you want to come across as more persuasive at work.

In everyday professional life, technical expertise often only becomes apparent when it is communicated effectively. If the impression you make doesn’t match your skills, it may be due to unconscious cues, such as reserved body language, a lack of vocal clarity, or a weak presence in the room. In training on making your expertise more clearly visible to others. This will allow you to come across as a more confident and credible professional in meetings, presentations, and conversations.

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