Course
Principles of Rhetoric («H33760»)
You would like to convince others of your concerns with a relaxed, confident charisma? Then familiarize yourself with the important basic principles of rhetoric and dialectics in this course.
Duration
3 days
Price
3'200.–
Course Information
This course is held in cooperation with Haufe Akademie.
Course facts
- Getting to know the essential principles of rhetoric and dialectics
- Becoming more confident in speaking and presenting freely
- Adjusting one's behavior in terms of content and language to one's own audience
- Learning how to appear calm, confident and sovereign
- Leading and convincing your own audience or a group through charisma and personal presence
- Developing and stabilizing behavioral patterns that help to appear convincing and confident in speaking and presentation situations.
- The basics of persuasive speech
- What makes a speech persuasive and successful?
- Considering the nonverbal aspects: Posture, gestures, facial expressions, eye contact
- The voice as an important instrument
- Language and comprehensibility
- Conveying information effectively
- Playful expansion of one's own linguistic expressiveness
- Recognizing and using linguistic and rhetorical stylistic devices
- Structure and execution of a goal-oriented speech/lecture
- Preliminary considerations: Audience, time frame, location, goal, etc.
- Concrete preparation
- The appearance and the introduction
- The execution
- The conclusion and the confident exit
- How to reach your audience
- Factual and relational levels in communication
- The connection to the audience: Recognizing, addressing and convincing different types of listeners
- Argumentation and persuasion
- Structure of an argumentation presentation
- Clarity of purpose, target group orientation, goal-oriented strategy
- Dealing with unfair dialectics and suggestive speech patterns
- How to deal with «wars of words» during a presentation
- Recognizing hidden messages and signals
- How to respond confidently to questions and interjections
- The art of asking the right question during a presentation
- How to get a grip on stage fright and insecurity
- Using the positive energy of stage fright
- The mental or inner attunement to the speech situation
- Dealing with tension and uncertainty