Public Speaking for Business: Pitch and Persuade like a Pro
The Classical Skills of Rhetoric and How to Apply Them to Modern Life
A course by Dasha Dollar-Smirnova , Public Speaking Coach
Joined June 2021
About the video: The Classical Skills of Rhetoric and How to Apply Them to Modern Life
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn from the classics. We will look at some rhetoric techniques that have been around since Ancient Greece.”
In this video lesson Dasha Dollar-Smirnova addresses the topic: The Classical Skills of Rhetoric and How to Apply Them to Modern Life, which is part of the Domestika online course: Public Speaking for Business: Pitch and Persuade like a Pro. Discover the how, what, and why of effective communication and use it to speak with confidence in any business situation, from interviews to meetings.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, We are going to be looking at techniques we can pick up from the ancient world of rhetoric. The art of rhetoric. Goes back thousands of years to ancient Greece, and was originated by great speakers and philosophers like Aristotle. in the art of rhetoric. We talk about how a well-balanced argument. And an effective persuasive argument will appeal to three things, ethos, Pathos and Logos. Ethos means ethics and values. Pathos. means emotion. And logos. means logic. So a well-constructed argument or persuasive argument will appeal to your audience's values, their emotions, and ...”
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Dasha Dollar-Smirnova
A course by Dasha Dollar-Smirnova
Dasha Dollar-Smirnova is a public speaking coach, and founder of Frog Talk, a company that provides public speaking training workshops. Dasha originally trained and worked in the field of drama and theatre which is where she built her confidence and found her voice.
Her first job was working for advertising agency Hogarth Worldwide, where she applied her acting background to the pitching team and helped the company become one of the UK’s fastest growing advertising agencies. Since then, she has obtained a master’s in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health and devoted herself, and Frog Talk, to helping individuals and companies master public speaking and become better communicators.
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