Rhetoric - voice - body language
Perform skillfully, confidently and convincingly
Contents
Principles of rhetoric
- What makes you persuasive when you speak?
- Be convincing - speak convincingly - appear convincing.
- Authenticity, self-confidence and personality.
Using the voice successfully
- Creating a mood through voice.
- Becoming aware of the effect of the voice.
- Using the voice skillfully: Volume, modulation, tempo, pauses.
- Voice, body and breathing exercises for your expressiveness.
Using body language
- Becoming aware of your own body language.
- Improve posture, gestures, eye contact, self-confidence and charisma.
- The external appearance.
Speak and convince effectively
- Rhetoric in the assistance sector.
- The structure of a speech: preparation, planning, delivery.
- Respond appropriately to questions, interjections and personal attacks.
Language and argumentation
- Argue in a structured and comprehensible way.
- Speak in a goal- and result-oriented manner.
- Formulate positively and achieve more.
Dealing confidently with stage fright
- Use stage fright positively.
- Effective strategies before and during your "appearance".
- Exercises for more calm and serenity
- Anti-stress and decoupling techniques.
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
You learn,
- to represent a point of view confidently,
- assess your verbal and non-verbal impact,
- refine your speaking technique and vocal expression,
- to gain in self-confident body language,
- to contribute confidently in conversations, meetings and presentations,
- to deal with language in a reflective way: to formulate concretely and appreciatively,
- to argue in a partner-, benefit- and solution-oriented manner,
- to make prepared and spontaneous structured contributions,
- react confidently to counter-arguments and objections and
- how to deal constructively with stage fright.
Methods
Theoretical input, group work, practical exercises, e.g. on self-presentation, argumentation, discussion and persuasive speeches with video analysis (optional), individual feedback, exercises to improve your ability to deal with stage fright and to strengthen your verbal and non-verbal expression skills.
Theoretical input, group work, practical exercises, e.g. on self-presentation, argumentation, discussion and persuasive speeches with video analysis (optional), individual feedback, exercises to improve your ability to deal with stage fright and to strengthen your verbal and non-verbal expression skills.
Tool
Recommended for
employees from assistance, secretarial and administrative positions who want to improve their rhetorical skills.
9127
Start dates and details
Thursday, 26.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 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, 18.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 19.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 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
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 04.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 05.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 03.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 04.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 21.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 22.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 18.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 19.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 01.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 02.03.2027
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.
FAQ
In your daily work as an assistant, secretary, or administrator, you are constantly interacting with managers, teams, and external contacts. It's not just what you say that matters, but how you say it. This training you develop your rhetorical skills in a targeted manner. You will learn to structure content clearly, formulate it comprehensibly, and present it confidently. Through practical exercises, you will develop convincing communication skills that showcase your professional competence and make your everyday work much easier.
Your voice and body language have a significant impact on your performance at work. In training , you training how to consciously use your voice, posture, gestures, and eye contact to appear confident and competent. You will work on your voice control, speaking speed, and body language, and learn how nonverbal signals can support or weaken your statements. This will enable you to improve your personal impact in conversations, meetings, and presentations in the long term.
Many assistants experience uncertainty or stage fright when speaking or giving presentations. This training you specific techniques for dealing with nervousness confidently. Through breathing exercises, voice training, and practical application, you will learn to gain inner calm and appear self-assured. You will strengthen your confidence in your own impact and appear calmer and more convincing even in challenging situations.
In everyday working life, there is often little time to prepare your thoughts in a structured way. The training you simple rhetorical tools that you can use to structure your statements clearly and communicate them in an understandable way. You will learn to formulate arguments precisely and present your point of view confidently. This will make you more noticeable in meetings and enable you to present your concerns clearly and effectively.
A strong rhetorical effect has an impact that extends far beyond individual situations. The training you methods that you can use on a permanent basis in your everyday work as an assistant. You will communicate more clearly, appear more confident, and strengthen your professional presence. This not only supports daily collaboration, but also your personal development and positioning within the company.
