Target group
Everybody who has to speak in front of other people during a presentation or in the course of a discussion and who would like to improve further his/her ability to argue convincingly.
Targets
This training is an advanced seminar. It will enhance and deepen the previoius seminars ‘Rhetoric I – The Art of Speaking in a nutshell’ or ‘Personal Performance’ acquired competencies such as dramaturgy, structure and use of media. During the diagnostic phase the participants will find out what is the level of his/her rhetoric capabilities. What is new is that the participants will acquire new techniques how they can deal calmly with objections from the audience, cat calls or ‘unpleasant’ participants. Furthermore they will practice the script for a presentation in which several people will take part and learn how they can circumnavigate elegantly the vagaries of a group presentation.
Content
- Handling critical discussion situations
- How to uncover and to disarm killer phrases
- ´The unpleasant listener’ – see it as a chance
- Training of ready wit, convince quick-wittedly
- Use of stress and how to reduce stage fright
- Convincing as a group during a presentation
Approach
Talk/lecture with video feedback, discussions Working in small groups
