Seminars
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At JK Training, our expert team of communication, methodology, and rhetoric trainers supports you and your organization with inspiring training programs, seminars, coachings, and workshops on communication, working methods, and leadership.
Presenting with the Pyramid Principle
Master Pyramid Thinking and Visualization directly with the book’s author.
Structuring with the Pyramid Principle
Communicate with Convincing Messages and Clear Structure in Emails and Conversations – Pyramid Basics (one day training).
Seminar effective presentation skills
Enhance your personal impact in presentations, talks, and speeches.
The Power of Business Storytelling
Convey dry, complex information effectively with well-timed, emotionally engaging stories that inspire new ideas.
Problem Solving
Master challenging problems with the right tools, whether on your own or with a team.
Using Artificial Intelligence in Daily Work
Transform your workday: leverage AI to simplify complex tasks and save time.
The Pyramid Principle – structuring and visualizing on point
Deliver management-level presentations with confidence.
The Pyramid Principle – also known as the Minto Method or Pyramid Presentation – emphasizes key messages and audience orientation.
Whether for emails, presentations, speeches, documents, conference calls, or personal conversations: the Pyramid Principle is an ideal tool for conveying complex information and arguments in a logically structured way, tailored to the expectations and needs of your audience.
In today’s globalized and digitalized world, structured thinking is the foundation of effective work. It forms the basis of successful communication, ensuring that content is delivered precisely, persuasively, and with lasting impact.
Especially in presentations, this method leads to well-structured, clear, and visually compelling slides. These combine diagrams, structural graphics, images, and text elements into an effective mix—designed to meet the audience’s needs while informing and persuading with clarity and impact.
Benefits:
- Meet the expectations of professionals and executives in your day-to-day business communication
- Work effectively and result-oriented to save time when creating your documents
- Structure your thoughts logically and precisely in five steps with the pyramid principle
- Build target-oriented core messages to immediately catch your audience’s attention
- Translate the pyramid structure into a well-structured presentation with crisp and clear presentation slides
Content:
- Use result- and audience orientated communication as a basic principle of success
- Get to the point with clear messages
- Assess the expectations of your target audience by analyzing und understanding their perspectives and motives
- Develop target-oriented core messages with the SCQC-method
- Build the storyline of the pyramid structure with logical groups and logical chains
- Automatically generate your executive or management summary when finishing the pyramid structure
- Choose the perfect and fitting visualization: form follows function
- Sketch your visual script using the storyboard-method
- Transfer your storyboard into appealing and compelling slides using four design principles
Methods:
- Pre-read: You’ll get first insights into the basics of the method with a short introduction text
- Pre-work: You’ll prepare a short task that we will build upon in the seminar
- Well-founded theoretical inputs will alternate with practical work phases
- In the practical work phases, you focus on your own topics for presentations and e-mails to ensure a high level of practical transfer
- You’ll receive detailed individual feedback while mastering the art of building pyramid structures and presentations
Structuring with the Pyramid Principle
Get Your Messages to the Point
Improve the communication culture in your organization. Save time and gain transparency with pyramid-style emails, where the key message comes first. Deliver clear and understandable messages in meetings and phone calls.
In our seminars, we take you on a journey into the world of the Pyramid Principle. From adopting an audience-focused perspective and crafting the optimal core message, to creating a persuasive pyramid structure and delivering crystal-clear presentations, you will learn it all.
You will work on your own topic during the seminar, putting the method into practice immediately. Take your communication to the next level with us.
Benefits:
- Meet the expectations of professionals and executives in your day-to-day business communication
- Work effectively and result-oriented to save time when creating your documents
- Structure your thoughts logically and precisely in five steps with the pyramid principle
- Build target-oriented core messages to immediately catch your audience’s attention
Content:
- Use result- and audience orientated communication as a basic principle of success
- Get to the point with clear messages
- Assess the expectations of your target audience by analyzing und understanding their perspectives and motives
- Develop target-oriented core messages with the SCQC-method
- Build the storyline of the pyramid structure with logical groups and logical chains
- Automatically generate your executive or management summary when finishing the pyramid structure
Methods:
- Pre-read: You’ll get first insights into the basics of the method with a short introduction text
- Pre-work: You’ll prepare a short task that we will build upon in the seminar
- Well-founded theoretical inputs will alternate with practical work phases
- In the practical work phases, you focus on your own topics for presentations and e-mails to ensure a high level of practical transfer
- You’ll receive detailed individual feedback while mastering the art of building pyramid structures and presentations
Effective presentation skills
Improve your personal impact
Competence. Authenticity. Self-confidence. The interplay of these elements makes your performance more interesting, entertaining and thus effective and successful. For you and your audience.
Delivering confident, inspiring and exciting talks, speeches and presentations is something that can be learned, as well as stating your points in discussions and calls as profoundly as possible.
In this training you will become acquainted with effective methods and tools to enhance your personal impact. You will experience these methods on a practical level by various exercises. We will work on your individual topics and potentials, making free speech and presenting yourself as well as your ideas and results a natural and beneficial part of your daily work.
Benefits:
- Convince your audience with your self confidence and power to command the stage
- Handle your stage fright and nervousness confidently
- Develop a positive attitude towards free and public speaking
- Structure your content with simple and well-founded methods
- Improve your self-perception to optimize your impact
Content:
- Learning powerful presentation skills and techniques
- Understanding your assets and potentials via self-analysis, the feedback by others and video-feedback
- Mastering your body language, voice and articualtion, e.g.:
- The rhetorical posture as a safe basis for a self-confident appearance
- Where to put your hands? The safe haven for using gestures
- Confident facial expressions & inclusive eye contact using microconversations
- Your voice and intonation as a powerful and convincing tool
- Emphasizing your key messages using pauses and pronunciation
- Overcoming stage-fright and the fear of public speaking by developing a positive attitude towards presenting yourself in front of others
- The 4T Method: Skillfully using different media when presenting
- Handling difficult situations professionally while staying calm and confident
- Short recapitulation: Arguing structured and to the point
Methods:
- Alternation of well-founded theoretical input phases with practical work
- Individual feedback, group feedback, video-supported feedback
The power of Business Storytelling
Get Your Messages to the Point
Storytelling is one of the most powerful and influential communication tools for daily business situations.
To lead, to sell and to communicate.
A well-placed and emotionally told story will reach the heart of your recipients, and thus change their way how to see your topics, and react to them. Storytelling allows to persuade on a different level, opens people for new ideas and visons, makes complex content easily understandable and captures your audiences’ attention.
With storytelling, you can systematically make presentations exciting, set new impulses in deadlocked conversations, present content in a comprehensible and convincing way, and thus make your information and ideas tangible for others. The approach is also ideally suited to convey the essential information in the event of any form of change, without triggering resistance on the part of the recipients that would usually come from a classical argumentation approach.
Benefits:
- Understand the art and science of Storytelling – boiled down to easy to use methods
- Reduce the complexity of your content to make the main idea stick
- Open people to change and visions with stories
- Create the potential to identify with your stories and thus involve the audience
- Communicate important ideas in a way that they go viral
- Influence people with your ideas at eye level and motivate them to think further
Content:
- Use proven systematic structures for great stories: the hero’s journey, the story blueprint and the sparkline
- Use your audiences built in neurological processing of stories to make your messages stick
- Find storytelling Gold-Nuggets in your own biography and develop personal stories
- Dynamic Ds: Make the story tangible with dialogue and details
- Scenic storytelling: captivate your audience and trigger a cinematic listener experience
- Find and choose the right story for each occasion and target group
Methods:
- Theoretical input alternates with practical experimentation
- The participants develop and refine their stories and create a story repertoire for various communication situations
- In practical parts, participants practice telling stories in an exciting and engaging way and receive individual feedback
Problem Solving
Find Solutions and Make Decisions in Complex Situations
Problem solving and decision making are skills that are becoming increasingly important in times of continuous and increasingly rapid change.
We often find ourselves in new, unknown situations for which there are no ready-made solutions yet. In such situations, it is particularly important to proceed in a structured manner using the appropriate methods.
In our seminar „Problem Solving – dealing with complexity“ you will become acquainted with a holistic method of how problems of various kinds can be viewed, described, structured, and finally solved.
The seminar is addressed to everyone who wants to work on problems and tasks in a structured way, or successfully lead a team through problem solving processes. The content is an optimal preparation for the communication of results and decisions using the pyramid method.
Benefits:
- Mindset: approach problems confidently and create the mental space to develop creative and sustainable solutions.
- Systematics: use a clear approach and an effective set of methods to solve complex problems and make transparent decisions.
- Teamwork: create the environment for your team to solve problems in complex situations in a structured manner.
- Communication: present your results and decision templates with clarity and structure.
Content:
- Reach your goal more efficiently through a systematic problem solving process
- Define problems precisely and thereby work on the right problem from the start
- Structure complex problems systematically and MECE, break them down into solvable parts
- Use the Kepner-Tregoe root cause analysis to overview existing facts and gain clarity through hypothesis testing
- Use agile methods and develop creative solutions to optimize the work process in the team
- Prioritize and make transparent decisions
Methods:
- Short, precise input phases alternating with practical work – the focus is on practical testing of the new methods
- High practical transfer through applying the methods to participants’ concrete business examples, partly in groups
- Individual feedback by group and trainer on practical exercises
Using Artificial Intelligence in your daily work
leverage AI to simplify complex tasks and save time
Discover how to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into your daily tasks to work smarter, faster, and more effectively.
This practical one-day training provides hands-on experience with AI tools, showing you how to streamline workflows, enhance decision-making, and boost productivity. By the end of the day, you’ll be ready to leverage AI in your everyday work with confidence.
Benefits:
- Gain practical knowledge of AI applications in the workplace
- Increase productivity and efficiency in routine tasks
- Make data-driven decisions faster and more accurately
- Reduce repetitive manual work and focus on strategic tasks
- Enhance collaboration and innovation using AI tools
Content:
- Introduction to AI: concepts, types, and real-world applications
- AI tools for everyday work: emails, documents, presentations, data analysis
- Automation of routine tasks
- AI-assisted decision-making and problem-solving
- Ethical considerations and best practices for using AI at work
- Hands-on exercises with AI tools relevant to participants’ roles
Methods:
- Short theoretical input sessions to explain concepts
- Interactive, hands-on exercises using real tools
- Group discussions and case studies
- Individual and group problem-solving exercises
- Feedback and Q&A throughout the day
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