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Contents
The basics of persuasive speaking
- What makes a speech convincing and successful?
- Consider the non-verbal aspects: Posture, gestures, facial expressions, eye contact.
- The voice as an important instrument.
How to get stage fright and insecurity under control
- Use the positive energy of lamp fever.
- The mental or inner attunement to the speaking situation.
- Dealing with tension and uncertainty.
How to deal with "battles of words" during the lecture
- Recognize hidden messages and signals.
- Confident answers to questions and interjections.
- The art of asking the right questions when presenting.
How to reach your audience
- Factual and relationship level in communication.
- Connecting with the audience: recognizing, addressing and convincing different types of listeners.
- Argumentation and persuasion.
- Structure of an argumentation presentation.
- 3 x Z: Goal clarity, target group orientation, goal-oriented strategy.
- Dealing with unfair dialectics and suggestive language patterns.
Structure and delivery of a targeted speech/presentation
- Preliminary considerations: Audience, time frame, location, destination, etc.
- Concrete preparation.
- The appearance and the entrance.
- The implementation.
- The finish and the confident exit.
Language and comprehensibility
- Communicate information sustainably.
- Playful expansion of your own language skills.
- Recognize and use linguistic-rhetorical stylistic devices.
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 the basic principles of rhetoric and dialectics.
- become more confident in free speech and presentations.
- can adapt their behavior to their audience in terms of content and language.
- learn how to appear calm, confident and in control.
- learn how to lead and convince their audience or a group through charisma and personal presence.
- develop and stabilize behavioural patterns through the large number of exercises during the seminar, which help them to appear convincing and confident in real lecture and presentation situations.
Methods
The training has the character of a workshop. The direct dialog between the group and trainer, intensive practice sequences and the simulation of presentation situations guarantee lasting learning success. This is supported by video recordings of participants' presentations with individual feedback from the trainer and the group. Voice and speech training as well as non-verbal physical exercises complement the holistic approach.
The training has the character of a workshop. The direct dialog between the group and trainer, intensive practice sequences and the simulation of presentation situations guarantee lasting learning success. This is supported by video recordings of participants' presentations with individual feedback from the trainer and the group. Voice and speech training as well as non-verbal physical exercises complement the holistic approach.
We recommend working with two screens so that you can participate in the training in the best possible way.
Recommended for
Specialists and managers who want to be convincing in the company and in public with confident speeches as well as junior managers who want to prepare for new representative tasks.
Questions about the seminar content
When you communicate clearly, comprehensibly, and persuasively, your visibility, influence, and impact increase in all professional contexts. You can make meetings more focused, lead discussions more constructively, and represent your concerns more convincingly.
Stage fright is not a weakness, but a source of energy. You will learn how to adjust your inner attitude so that nervousness does not block you, but keeps you alert and present. This will strengthen your performance and allow you to speak more relaxed.
Spoken words alone are not enough. Your body language, eye contact, and posture either support or weaken what you say. Reflect on your nonverbal communication to control your presence more consciously and appear more convincing overall.
Unplanned questions can be intimidating if you don't have strategies for dealing with them. You will learn to listen actively and respond in a structured manner, which will help you remain calm and convince others objectively, even in spontaneous situations.
Your voice conveys not only information, but also your attitude and presence. You will receive tips on how to use emphasis, tempo, and pauses effectively to make your speech more powerful, understandable, and lively. This will increase your audience's attention and enhance your impact.
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