Oral Persuasion

Added: Mar 15, 2016 2:09 pm Introduction
Professional services are requested by the U.S. Government for the development and presentation of an oral persuasion workshop("Composure Under Fire") for the Foreign Service Officer Orientation Course (course code PG-101, also called "A-100") at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. The program will take place in classrooms at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center (NFATC),4000 Arlington Boulevard,Arlington,Virginia,20522-4201 or other designated training sites.

Background
This segment is part of the six-week orientation course for Foreign Service Officers (FSOs). Since FSOs must be prepared to persuasively answer difficult questions on U.S. policy and society and effectively promote U.S. interests, this course includes an Oral Persuasion element to develop skills and techniques to represent the U.S. government in a variety of Foreign Service situations. The orientation course will be offered four (4) times in FY2016 and FY2017. Each class has between 40 and 100 students. Each oral persuasion
workshop will include one plenary presentation between 2.5 and 4 hours long for the entire class, and up to eight small group practical training sessions of four hours each, with each small group meeting twice (giving each student up to 8 hours total of small group instruction, in addition to the plenary session). For the practical training sessions, each class will be divided into smaller groups of approximately equal size, generally consisting of 8-15 students. The number of courses offered during the year, the presentation dates, and the number