Description:

In this event, we will examine your communication behavior, provide you with feedback on your appearance, the effect of your voice, facial expressions, and gestures, and give you advice and ideas on how you can use these rhetorical elements even more effectively.

You will also learn how to use language and information flow to clearly and respectfully convey your goals and concerns. The event offers practical exercises that teach you how to structure a speech and actively prevent stage fright. You will develop your own presentation style that makes you feel comfortable and authentic.

Benefits:

•    Respond and act in a clear, concrete, competent, constructive, and cooperative manner

•    Improve your impact on others

•    Skillfully use stylistic devices

•    Consciously employ rhetoric and actively shape it

•    Achieve goals, clarify concerns, convince others, or win them over

•    Feel more confident and comfortable

Contents: 

•    Fundamentals of communication 

•    Professional word choice and phrasing

•    Conscious use of rhetoric

•    Conveying your own emotions

•    Speech, tone of voice, breathing 

•    Boosting self-confidence

•    Preparing speeches professionally

•    Giving a speech spontaneously

•    Actively combating stage fright – appearing calm and confident

•    Relaxation exercises – before and during a speech

•    Preparing, structuring, and delivering a speech/presentation, e.g., in meetings, structuring longer speeches and lectures

•    Having arguments ready

Language: German

Target group: Employees of Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz and RMU partner universities