Share your views and ideas in a convincing and constructive way

Goals

• Be aware of the importance of good preparation when it is possible (anticipation).
• Use basic theatrical techniques to convince and manage your fear in improvisation situations.
• Use the tools of assertiveness to share your positions and ideas in a strong and convincing way.
• Respond constructively to opposition, criticism; be attentive to bring the right arguments.
• Boost your self-confidence

Target audience

Anyone willing to improve their ability to share their ideas in a strong, convincing and constructive way.

Prerequisite

None

Contents

Prepare to convince

• Prepare and structure the elements to be transmitted
• Gather facts, examples, illustrations
• Reflect on a "catchy" way of sharing messages
• Avoid the pitfalls of communication to be heard and understood

Express yourself assertively

• Provide facts, express your feelings. Make the difference between fact, judgment, opinion, feeling
• Use positive words and the language of assertiveness
• Ensure verbal / nonverbal coherence
• Involve your interlocutor, allow her / him to play an active part to foster dialogue

React constructively to opposition, criticism

• Keep calm; become aware of the emotions at play
• "Depersonalize" the situation: for oneself and for one's interlocutor
• Listen actively to bring the right arguments
• Use the DESC method to express annoying things

Set yourself for success and boost your self-confidence

• Link between assertiveness, self-confidence and self-esteem
• Practice positive autosuggestion
• Manage emotions with alternative thinking
• Grant yourself rights