Quick-Wittedness Training (In-House)

Train your quick-wittedness and become quick-witted in your job – Europe-wide

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Centerpiece of this quick-wittedness training are the 30 most important and most effective quick-wittedness techniques.

In the two big practical exercises on quick-wittedness each employee has the opportunity to respond to verbal attacks and apply and train immediately the learned quick-witted techniques. 100% practical relevance guaranteed!

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All trainings can also be booked as an online training!

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Seminar schedule: Quick-Wittedness Training

day 1

09:00 – 9:15

Introduction: What is quick-wittedness?

Analysis of the situations of quick-wittedness and categories of verbal attacks.

9:15 – 10:45

30 Most effective quick-wittedness techniques

Small excerpt of the featured techniques: Irony technique, reinterpretation technique, diplomat technique, mirror technique, denial technique, refutation technique, balancing technique and many others!

10:45 – 11:30

The role of body language and voice

Especially with verbal attacks, it is important to remain calm, at least to the outside. You will learn how to do this in this section.

11:30 – 12:30

1. Exercise: how to find quick-witted responses

Realistic simulations of verbal attacks from professional life and correct answers to them.

12:30 – 13:30

– Lunch break –

13:30 – 14:15

The supreme discipline: quick-wittedness in relation to the customer

Providing a polite, yet quick-witted answer to one’s own customer is a very special challenge that we will tackle here.

14:15 – 15:00

The role of emotions in verbal attacks

How to deal with negative emotions in verbal attacks? And how not let them prevalence? These exciting questions are answered in this section.

15:00 – 16:30

2. Exercise: how to master a difficult two-person conversation

Interactive role-play with the trainer and individual feedback. In this exercise, you have to master a critical conversation — participants confirm that this is the absolute “highlight” of the course!

16:30 – 17:00

Tips for sustainable training, questions and answers

Tips for improving your quick-wittedness independently even after the course.

day 1

09:00 – 9:15
Introduction: What is quick-wittedness?
Analysis of the situations of quick-wittedness and categories of verbal attacks.

9:15 – 10:45
30 Most effective quick-wittedness techniques
Small excerpt of the featured techniques: Irony technique, reinterpretation technique, diplomat technique, mirror technique, denial technique, refutation technique, balancing technique and many others!

10:45 – 11:30
The role of body language and voice
Especially with verbal attacks, it is important to remain calm, at least to the outside. You will learn how to do this in this section.

11:30 – 12:30
1. Exercise: how to find quick-witted responses
Realistic simulations of verbal attacks from professional life and correct answers to them.

12:30 – 13:30
– Lunch break –

13:30 – 14:15
The supreme discipline: quick-wittedness in relation to the customer
Providing a polite, yet quick-witted answer to one’s own customer is a very special challenge that we will tackle here.

14:15 – 15:00
The role of emotions in verbal attacks
How to deal with negative emotions in verbal attacks? And how not let them prevalence? These exciting questions are answered in this section.

15:00 – 16:30
2. Exercise: how to master a difficult two-person conversation
Interactive role-play with the trainer and individual feedback. In this exercise, you have to master a critical conversation — participants confirm that this is the absolute “highlight” of the course!

16:30 – 17:00
Tips for sustainable training, questions and answers
Tips for improving your quick-wittedness independently even after the course.

Choose from 3 variants

BASIC

Classical
Training

with a fixed seminar schedule
quick-wittedness exercises
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
no tailor-made seminar
no video analysis
no online courses

price on request

BASIC

Classical
Training

with a fixed seminar schedule
quick-wittedness exercises
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
no tailor-made seminar
no video analysis
no online courses

price on request

PRO

Tailor-made
Training

tailor-made content
tailor-made quick-wittedness exercises
online course Schlagfertigkeit*
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
video analysis included
no Argumentorik Masterclass**

price on request

PRO

Tailor-made
Training

tailor-made content
tailor-made quick-wittedness exercises
online course Schlagfertigkeit*
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
video analysis included
no Argumentorik Masterclass**

price on request

PREMIUM

Tailor-made Training
& Online Library

tailor-made content
tailor-made quick-wittedness exercises
Argumentorik Masterclass**: lifelong access
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
video analysis included

price on request

PREMIUM

Tailor-made Training
& Online Library

tailor-made content
tailor-made quick-wittedness exercises
Argumentorik Masterclass**: lifelong access
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
video analysis included

price on request

BASIC

Classical
Training

with a fixed seminar schedule
quick-wittedness exercises
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
no tailor-made seminar
no video analysis
no online courses

price on request

BASIC

Classical
Training

with a fixed seminar schedule
quick-wittedness exercises
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
no tailor-made seminar
no video analysis
no online courses

price on request

PRO

Tailor-made
Training

tailor-made content
tailor-made quick-wittedness exercises
online course Schlagfertigkeit*
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
video analysis included
no Argumentorik Masterclass**

price on request

PRO

Tailor-made
Training

tailor-made content
tailor-made quick-wittedness exercises
online course Schlagfertigkeit*
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
video analysis included
no Argumentorik Masterclass**

price on request

PREMIUM

Tailor-made Training
& Online Library

tailor-made content
tailor-made quick-wittedness exercises
Argumentorik Masterclass**: lifelong access
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
video analysis included

price on request

PREMIUM

Tailor-made Training
& Online Library

tailor-made content
tailor-made quick-wittedness exercises
Argumentorik Masterclass**: lifelong access
at your location
number of participants on request
in English and/or German
video analysis included

price on request

* online course “Schlagfertigkeit” (lifelong access) for every participant from our Argumentorik Online Academy. More information you’ll find here: E-learning for companies (in German)
** Argumentorik Masterclass: Advanced training in business communication with more than 1.200 video lessons, certificate from the Argumentorik Academy included for every participant (lifelong access)

Quick-Wittedness Training: your benefit

You trainer for quick-wittedness is an experienced communications expert and internationally distingueshed speaker who knows exactly how to react spontaneously and quick-witted to interjections and negative comments. Whether killer phrases, personal insults, intense verbal attacks or nasty sayings: your quick-witted trainer has the perfect answer to all attacks and also helps your employees to counter skillfully.

Your employees learn quick-wittedness from professionals: with 30 quick-wittedness techniques you will acquire the communicative tools that are important for your job, with which you can parry any verbal attack.

Using the 30 quick-wittedness techniques, your employees will have the rhetorical ability to respond appropriately and confidently in a wide range of situations — both under colleagues and when it comes to dealing and talking to unfriendly customers.

The quick-wittedness training is ideal for those who can not think of the correct answer to a verbal attack or reproach until hours later.

Blended Learning

Thematically appropriate online courses for your training

For sustainable knowledge transfer, each participant receives the thematically appropriate online course “Schlagfertigkeit” (in German) worth 79€ each with lifelong access in the PRO version “tailor-made seminar”. More information under e-learning for companies (in German).

And in the PREMIUM variant “tailor-made training & online library” we activate the Argumentorik Masterclass for each participant, consisting of over 30 online courses (mostly in German). Make a non-binding request now.

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Organizational data at a glance

  • your trainer: absolute expert of quick-wittedness
  • target audience: employees of all industries
  • at your location
  • number of participants on request
  • in English and/or German
  • video analysis included
  • practice-oriented quick-wittedness exercises
  • 1 day
  • on your desired date
  • certificate of attendance for each participant
  • blended learning: online courses as a supplement
  • can also be booked as online training
  • investment: make a non-binding request now!
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Quick-Wittedness Training (In-House):

your non-binding request

The quick-wittedness training (in-house) is available throughout Europe, the language of instruction is English and/or German if desired; can also be bookd as an online training.

 

Rhetoric Training

Further trainings

Quick-wittedness training for women

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Unfortunately, it is all too common that women in our society hear a stupid saying. Discriminatory. Chauvinistic. Sexist. And a spontaneous, quick-witted reaction from many women? Often nil. We say: stop it!

Our quick-wittedness training for women is aimed at everyone who comes up with a quick-witted answer far too late in many private and professional situations. Especially for this we have developed a training program including practical quick-wittedness techniques with which every woman learns to counter any type of verbal attack confidently and effectively. And the quick-wittedness trainer practices these techniques in tailored quick-wittedness exercises with each participant.

With our quick-wittedness training for women you will never be speechless again. Say goodbye to verbal attacks and indecentities today, because we guarantee: you can learn to be quick witted!

We will help you with this – and you will also increase your self-confidence. Send us a non-binding request now.

Quick-wittedness training for women

3

Unfortunately, it is all too common that women in our society hear a stupid saying. Discriminatory. Chauvinistic. Sexist. And a spontaneous, quick-witted reaction from many women? Often nil. We say: stop it!

Our quick-wittedness training for women is aimed at everyone who comes up with a quick-witted answer far too late in many private and professional situations. Especially for this we have developed a training program including practical quick-wittedness techniques with which every woman learns to counter any type of verbal attack confidently and effectively. And the quick-wittedness trainer practices these techniques in tailored quick-wittedness exercises with each participant.

With our quick-wittedness training for women you will never be speechless again. Say goodbye to verbal attacks and indecentities today, because we guarantee: you can learn to be quick witted!

We will help you with this – and you will also increase your self-confidence. Send us a non-binding request now.

FAQs about the in-house

Quick-Wittedness Training

Europe-wide

Can you briefly describe the profile of your quick-wittedness trainers?

Our quick-wittedness trainers are nationally and internationally excellent speakers. Our trainers have received awards in various national and international speech competitions: TOP speakers, World Cup quarter-finalists, German champions in debating, finalists in various competitions.

With our 1-day quick-wittedness training, your employees will increase their competence to react quick-witted and self-confidently to verbal attacks noticeably in just one day. For questions and further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@argumentorik.com.

How many people can attend an in-house quick-wittedness training?

The fewer people participate in a quick-wittedness seminar, the more possibilities the individual has to exercise. We recommend a maximum of 12 active participants, with an unlimited number of employees who can be present as so-called “silent observers”.

Our goal is to significantly increase the quick-wittedness of each participant.

Are the practical quick-wittedness exercises tailored to our company needs?

Yes! In the quick-wittedness training, the trainer first presents the 30 most effective quick-wittedness techniques.

Then he practices the 30 techniques with each employee in 2 realistic simulations of verbal attacks from the job. In these simulations, which are integrated in the seminar plan, the aim is to put the learned techniques into practice immediately and then to analyze how the employees act when countering.

What is the relationship between theory and practice?

We have been observing for years that the realistic simulations of verbal attacks from work have the greatest learning effect for our clients.

And that they regularly regard our quick-wittedness exercises as the “highlight”. However, since it is your training, you can specify exactly the relationship between theory and practice.

That is why we attach great importance to practice. Further information on the content and exercises can be found in the seminar schedule.

Do participants also receive video feedback?

We offer to accompany the quick-wittedness seminar with a camera. This method has proven to be very useful in the past and has been highly enlightened by employees, as the video allows for a more detailed analysis of the 2 simulations.

If you or individual employees do not want video analysis, of course we can do without.

Which seminar variant is the best for my team?

We recommend the “classical training” (BASIC) if you would like to book a basic seminar for your team on the subject of quick-qittedness, in which fundamental concepts and the best quick-wittedness techniques are discussed.

The “tailor-made training” (PRO) variant is recommended if you would like to deal with job and situation-specific quick-wittedness cases with your team and the basic knowledge is already available.

And we recommend the third variant, “tailor-made & online library” (PREMIUM), if you want to give your employees long-term access to valuable knowledge, with each participant having access to the Argumentorik Masterclas (over 30 online courses) so that each participant can develop independently.

You can combine the classic and tailor-made seminar into a 2-day event.

Please select now the variant that suits best for you.

Is it possible to conduct the training online (e.g. using Zoom or Microsoft Teams)?

Yes! We already have a lot of experience – and above all – very good experience when it comes to online trainings. Our preferred online tool is Zoom.

Of course we are flexible and use your preferred online tool successfully as well. Because in “digital rhetoric” it is not only a question of the technology, but also of a professional appearance in front of the camera.

Whether online trainings or face-to-face trainings: Write us your wishes and ideas in your non-binding request. We’ll find the best solution for you.

What is the unique selling point of the Argumentorik Academy?

In addition to our excellent quick-wittedness trainers, we offer every participant topic-specific online courses for sustainable knowledge transfer, e.g. the online course “Schlagfertigkeit: Die 30 besten Schlagfertigkeits-Techniken” (in German).

The Argumentorik Online Academy portfolio already includes more than 30 online courses on communications, business skills and personality. Please select now the variant that suits best for you.