Rhetoric Seminar

Basics of successful rhetoric

• Understanding aspects of convincing rhetoric
• How do you develop confidence in your speech?
• Knowing and using effective stylistic devices

Preparing rhetorical presence

• Knowing and influencing general conditions
• Understanding the needs of the target group
• Planning structure and sequence

Appearing confidently

• Start in a well thought-out and structured way
• Speaking freely without aids
• Building up tension
• Using questioning techniques in a goal-oriented way

Body language and voice

• Use of gestures, facial expressions, eye contact and posture
• Use of vocal accentuation
• Consciously controlling the tempo of speech and pauses
• Choice of words and linguistic expressiveness

Interaction with listeners and participants in the conversation

• Perceiving non-verbal signals from the audience
• Activating the audience
• Dealing with questions and objections
• Different types of interlocutors

Stage fright and insecurity

• Controlling nervousness and tension
• Finding the red thread again
• Avoiding stumbling blocks
• Making use of unforeseen disturbances

In our rhetoric seminars you will learn to use rhetorical skills in a results-oriented way so that your message is understood. You will be given the opportunity to build on your communicative strengths and to identify and eliminate weaknesses:

• You will learn central principles of sovereign discussion techniques.
• You reduce stage fright and build up self-confidence
• You will consciously use convincing stylistic devices
• You will win over your listeners and interlocutors
• You communicate freely and convincingly in front of an audience

The learning methods used in this training include speech and voice training, as well as numerous practice situations. The aim of the exercises is to draw up a rhetorical strengths and weaknesses profile for the participants and then to train rhetorical tools, which are shown at the beginning via trainer input. Trying out the communication tools is evaluated by means of video analysis. Group discussions and the use of training materials round off the training. Due to numerous exercises per speaker, the number of participants in the rhetoric seminars of the Dr. G. Kitzmann Academy is strictly limited.

The rhetoric seminar is aimed at people who want to master their appearance in front of other people competently and confidently . The situations to be trained include speeches, presentations and lecture situations as well as conversations with customers, colleagues and employees. The rhetoric seminar is suitable for all those who want to learn rhetorical skills and try them out in a protected training environment. The newly acquired competence is internalised in numerous exercises to ensure an always authentic appearance that corresponds to your personality.

You would like to hold the rhetoric seminar in your company as an in-house seminar? That is of course possible! We will be happy to make you an individual offer that meets your needs in terms of content, time frame and other requirements. Please send your request to: kontakt@drgkitzmann-akademie.de

Rhetoric is understood as targeted, verbal and non-verbal communication behaviour between people. The verbal area, articulated by means of the voice, accounts for only a small proportion of the information content that is conveyed. Non-verbal components, such as body language, gestures and facial expressions, account for the far greater share of interpersonal communication.

Through the use of oratory, the audience can be emotionally activated in speech situations , captivated in terms of content and finally convinced. The methods serve, for example, to structure a speech, reduce nervousness and use linguistic ability. You will learn all this in our training courses and rhetoric seminars. Inspire your audience with basic, theoretical skills that specifically strengthen your rhetorical abilities in practice. Experienced trainers help you to tap your full potential!

Those who can express themselves according to the occasion and the participants of an event are heard. If the rhetorician uses supportive skills of rhetoric in interpersonal communication, she radiates sovereignty, self-confidence and authenticity. Participation in the seminar days is profitable for you because you will receive tips and advice on how to optimise your everyday communication. As a result, you will strengthen your eloquence and expressiveness. Use this rhetoric seminar to train your personal occasion:

• Speech
• Speech
• Speech
• Meeting
• Appearance
• Negotiation

Have you also experienced the following incidents? You are giving an important speech and are unsettled by an unexpected interjection. You are giving presentations to executives or larger groups in your company and suddenly lose the thread. You are trying to make a point and get caught up in your own argumentation.

These training events offer assistance in achieving success in the above-mentioned examples. You will be taught tips and tricks that you can then try out in speeches and professional presentations. In addition, after each exercise you will receive feedback from the trainer and the participants on your appearance and argumentation, so that in the next stressful situation you will know exactly which formulation is target-oriented and when.