Workshop

Presentation skills and rhetoric

Benefits

We do much of our work in our heads, in a “quiet little chamber” at the computer. Even when we ultimately want to share our thoughts with an audience, we sit there and work in silence.

No matter how good our thoughts, how groundbreaking our results, how innovative our ideas: if we fail to convey them to our target audience, success will still elude us.

We maintain: “The messenger IS the message!” So this course is about you. You are the messenger. If you feel confident delivering your message, your audience will sense it. Do you have good reasons to believe in your messages? Then that will come across.

In our open workshop «Presentation Skills and Rhetoric» you will learn in the shortest possible time how to professionalize your impact.

You will stand in front of the camera several times, receive feedback and work on your presentation. Our feedback is concrete and immediately actionable.

Objectives

  • make the most of your impact on stage
  • know what to do with your hands
  • know how to use your gaze
  • You know how to accentuate your voice
  • You can get your topic across concisely and to the point
  • You know how to prepare for a presentation

Content

  • What does it mean to come across as convincing?
  • Self-image vs. external image: How do I see myself? How do others perceive me?
  • How the nonverbal, paraverbal and verbal levels of communication interact
  • Speaking without words: the importance of body language
  • Creating mood with your voice: volume, modulation, pauses and pace
  • The importance of the first impression
  • The bridge of contact to the audience: gaze and presence
  • What is the connection between impact and personality?
  • How you can make your presentations more impactful
  • Confident and composed: applying the key points of presentation skills
  • Radiating what matters: making your inner attitude visible and audible
  • The power of the beginning and the end
  • Applying rhetorical techniques purposefully
  • Free speech: getting to the essence in one minute
  • Exercises for voice and articulation
  • Exercises against nervousness and for good energy

You register as an individual and train in a group. The workshop lasts one day. The focus is on DOING IT YOURSELF:

You will try things out, practice, receive feedback and stand in front of the camera several times.

We look forward to seeing you!

Until then: pay attention in conversations or meetings to how you come across when explaining or advocating something. When do you feel clear, present, authentic? Presentation skill doesn't begin on stage – it shows in every moment you become visible.

Coaches

Sarah AbrigadaSängerin, Coach, Vocal Coach, Trainerin, DozentinTo the profile
Patrizia BrosiTrainerin, Coach, Dozentin, Yogalehrerin, TraurednerinTo the profile
Deborah HeftiSchauspielerin, Trainerin und Coach für AuftritteTo the profile
Barbara LutstorfAnimatrice d’ateliers de travail en françaisTo the profile
Sibylle SommererInhaberin Speak GmbH
Trainerin, Coach und Dozentin für Auftritte
To the profile
Kirstin WalserSchauspielerin, Trainerin, Coach und Dozentin für AuftritteTo the profile

Feedback

What participants say.

  • Vielen Dank für die abwechslungsreiche, pointierte und wertschätzende Gestaltung des Tages! Ich nehme viel mit, das ich direkt für meine nächste Präsentation anwenden kann.
    SharonSeptember 2026
  • Vielen herzlichen Dank für den tollen Workshop und die vielen hilfreichen Tipps. Besonders hängen geblieben ist bei mir, dass man schon mit Kleinem viel bewirken kann (arme in Hüfte Stämmen, Tonalität, Blick, Methoden Nervosität zu reduzieren) oder auch die Erkenntnis, dass der Opener durchaus auch einmal für die präsentierende Person selbst hilfreich sein darf. 😊
    NatalieSeptember 2026
  • Vielen herzlichen Dank für den tollen Workshop am Montag. Es war für mich eine richtig gute Erfahrung, so etwas einmal "out of business context", ausserhalb meiner Unternehmensinternen Leadership- und Kommunikationstrainings zu machen. Ich konnte für mich persönlich richtig viel mitnehmen - insbesondere, dass Struktur einer Präsentation und Fokussieren auf kurze Sätze/Sprache lange Vorbereitungszeiten ersetzen 🙂 Das hat richtig viel Spass gemacht in der diversen Gruppe und mit Dir, Du hast uns alle super individuell abgeholt. Vielen Dank!
    KarinSeptember 2026

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Six spots per session — you register as an individual and train in a group.

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