Presentation and Argumentation
Establish a Dialogue with Your Audience

Do you know the myth of the perfect speaker who was born with a special talent, who doesn’t need to prepare and is never nervous? We would like to help strip away this myth, as it’s not true. On this course, we replace the myth with concrete tools that will take you safely from start to finish.

Participants

This course is aimed at individuals who wish to get better at stepping forward, taking the floor, establishing credibility, arguing for their views, debating and getting heard at various gatherings – as a speaker, a debater and a communicator.

The Presentation and Argumentation programme is about you as a communicator and about only having yourself, your body and your contact with the listeners to work with.

Benefit

Through exercises, you will get an opportunity to work with your speech and your argumentation in practice and to experiment with the methods. You will be recorded on DVD and subsequently receive feedback from the facilitator and your fellow participants.

You will learn to:

• Use your body language
• Argue and debate
• Produce a usable script
• Deal with anxiety and stage fright
• Exude credibility
• Put your ideas in writing
• Find the thread
• Prepare mentally
• Produce a “speaker-friendly” and flexible script
• Have the courage to step forward
• Get your message through
• Retain the attention of your audience
• Engage your audience and make them understand you
• Argue and reply/counter
• Keep things in perspective
• Disarm and avoid quarrelling

Your company will get an employee who:

• Exudes confidence and a sense of calm
• Can retain the attention of his or her audience
• Can retain credibility – even under pressure

Key terms from the course:

• Effective introduction
• Clear message
• Effective highlights
• Powerful ending

Course content

Preparing your speech – interplay
It’s impossible to be creative and logical at the same time. By using interplay, you will get more ideas and thus greater material to work with when structuring your speech.

The speaker’s toolbox
The effective introduction, a clear message, effective highlights and a powerful ending help retain the attention of your audience.

The script
Pros and cons of various forms of script. Learn how to make your script “speaker friendly” and flexible to avoid giving the impression that you depend on your script.

Manage your stress
Make stage fright and anxiety your allies.

Body language
What body language means for your impact.

Argumentation
Various forms of argumentation: logos, pathos and ethos. These three professional expressions describe how you can appeal to your audience. Learn to tell the difference between strictly professional argumentation (logos) and emotional argumentation (pathos) and the opportunities and pitfalls of both forms. How does your credibility (ethos) affect your argumentation?
Learn to build credibility and learn how, for example, humour comes into play.

Debate – strategic considerations:

• Which arguments support the case?
• How should you build your argumentation?
• Which arguments will the other party use?
• How do you tackle counter-arguments?
• We will conduct a “group debate competition”, which will offer an opportunity to train your argumentation in a pressurised situation

Additional consultancy

For additional consultancy and personal sparring, please contact Product Manager Merete Bernhardtsen by calling +45 4517 6119 or by sending an email.

Facilitation method

The facilitation on the Presentation and Argumentation programme is characterised by a great deal of participant activity.

You will have several opportunities to test what you have learned in practice.

Your various presentations will be recorded and you will take home a DVD to allow you to see yourself at your leisure. You will receive feedback after each presentation – from the facilitator and the other participants.

The course results in a debating competition where the group is split into groups. The groups will prepare the evening before. This competition gives you plenty of opportunity to make use of what you have learned and recapitulates the entire course and ties up loose ends – and at the same time it’s a fun part of the programme.

Facilitator

Kirsten Andersen facilitates this course. She has great professional capability and commitment and gives you tools to take you safely from start to end when presenting.

Kirsten Andersen’s professional expertise and capability ensure that you are in the hands of a professional throughout the course. You will receive useful feedback that you can use immediately after the course.

The price includes:

Before the course:

• Invitation to a free two-hour meeting on “Good Learning”

During the course:

• 3 days of facilitation
• 2 nights of accommodation
• 1 facilitator
• All meals
• Max. 12 participants
• Course material – the book “Præsentationer der fænger, volume1” – everything you need to know about presentation techniques
• Notebook for your personal notes
• Several presentation and communication exercises of various lengths – several exercises are recorded on DVD
• Training in debating competition

Contact Mannaz

For personal consultancy, please call Capability Consultant Lonnie Vestergaard on +45 4517 6006 or send an email.